
This part is going to challenge your understanding of Net Profit. Please check your confidence, knowledge and intuition at the start of this course. You can rely on your common management sense, but not only on accounting rules. Sometimes it works even better.
In this part, you will get acquainted with the idea of the management balance sheet. You will also know the definition of Net Profit from the owners point of view.
In this part, you will get acquainted with the general management balance sheet framework.
Don't struggle too much trying to grasp and remember everything at once. Just get the general idea and enjoy the journey.
In this part, we will do some practice with the balance sheet. We will define the net profit using the management balance sheet approach.
In this part, we will go through basic management ideas for the Income and Cash flow statements.
In this part, you will get acquainted with the preparing management financial statements . We will complete this practice without traditional accounting books to focus you more on the features of the Balance sheet, Income and Cash flow statements for management purposes only.
Thinking of finance, there is always one problem for managers in the business world.
They are often unfamiliar with the real meaning of financial terms. This course will help those who are interested to learn the framework of managerial financial statements. The balance sheet, Income and Cash flow statements are explained here from the management and owners' point view. This knowledge would be especially useful not so much for academic purposes but mainly for business practices.
Before we begin, It would make sense to clarify the difference between managerial and external financial statements.
Managerial Financial Statements
The main purpose of Managerial financial statements is to provide owners and managers with timely, reliable information about business performance for decision making in the most convenient and useful format.
External Financial Statements
External financial statements are those distributed outside of the company's management. The usual recipients of this information are government agencies, banks and other external institutions. These statements are quite strictly regulated by national legislation and international accounting standards which is not always best suitable and convenient for management purposes.
We focus on Managerial Finance in this course.
At first, I am going to challenge your understanding of Net Profit. Please check your confidence, knowledge and intuition at the start of this course. You can rely on your common management sense, but not only on accounting rules. Sometimes it works even better.