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Basics of financial accounting

Accounting Corporate Finance Investments MBA Financial Analysis
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Rating: 4.3 out of 5 (35 ratings)
904 students
43min of on-demand video
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How to record basic business operations in a company's books
How Balance sheet, Income statement and Statement of cashflows look like
How to make a simple set of financial statements
What the principles of bookeeping are

Requirements

  • No prior knowledge of accounting is required. Basic economics knowledge is desirable, but not necessary

Description

This course is made by a practitioner with 30 years of experience in accounting (Big 4) and corporate finance (Head of M&A and investments, Chief Financial Officer). I also published a number of books on the topics of accounting, financial statements analysis and corporate finance which sold more than 100 000 copies in total.

In this course you will learn the basics of financial accounting:

- Accounting principles

- Basic bookkeeping

- Making basic financial statements such as the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and the Statement of cash flows

The course has a couple of practical exercises. The first one you can do togther with the instructor. The second one you can do yourself and check the results with the sintructor video.

If you want to become…

· a Financial Analyst

· an Accountant

· an Auditor

· a Business Analyst

· a Financial Controller

· a Financial Manager

· a CFO

· a CEO

· an Investment Banker

· an Equity Research Analyst

· an Investor

· an Entrepreneur

· Someone who is involved with a business and would like to be successful

Then this course is for you. This course is just the beginning. If you like it and feel that you need to expand your knowledge of the topic, feel free to explore my other courses on the subject available on Udemy

Who this course is for:

  • Accounting students
  • People, interested in learning finance

Instructor

Financial management
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 172 Reviews
  • 2,295 Students
  • 4 Courses

Aleksei Gerasimenko is an experienced manager with more than 25 years of financial experience as the Head of Investments and M&A, Chief Financial Officer of a number of companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, United Heavy Machinery,  Metinvestholding, Mechel and others

Aleksei has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Aleksei is a reknowned author of several bestsellers with more than 100 000 copies sold: "Financial Statements for Managesr and Invesetors" и «Financial Management - it's simple!».

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