Through this course, you will start by addressing the two “big questions” of accounting: “What do I have?” and “How did I do over time?” You will see how the two key financial statements – the balance sheet and the income statement - are designed to answer these questions and then move on to consider how individual transactions aggregate to make up these financial statements. After developing a broad understanding of accounting and financial statements, you will begin to develop a more nuanced understanding of individual components of doing business, such as making a sale or building inventory. By considering many of the more common actions of a company, you will build your understanding of accounting, and explore these concepts by applying them across various types of transactions. Once you understand these individual concepts better, you will be ready to return to the overall financial statements and use them as informational tools, including building ratios.
You can do this course standalone or to qualify for the residential component of the Finance for Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program. For more information, see the FAQ below.
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Financial Statements
Intermediate·Course·29 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Oct 9, 2018
With no prior knowledge of accounting it's surprising how easy it is to progress through the course. professor Miller has an amazing ability to explain new concepts in an easy to understand manner!
4.0
·Reviewed Jan 9, 2023
The best course out here (provided for free) in Coursera that will best suit for just the starter or the beginner of leanring an accounting!! Highly recommended while it may be hard.
5.0
·Reviewed May 14, 2020
Very Well designed course and interesting !!!Prof. Greg Miller explains the concepts very lucidly.
4.0
·Reviewed Nov 7, 2020
adding merchandising operations would have been great. Otherwise, it's a very informative course.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 3, 2020
Excellent Course.. Forgot to mention.. It would be Great if students can get some Credit points. Maybe designing this type of course with that in mind would be really Great
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 21, 2022
Amazing teacher and teaching style this rcourse really helped me to enhance my skills and knowledge further .
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 26, 2020
This course is really helpful, it helped me to learn about the making of a financial statement and accounting decisions of a firm.
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 6, 2022
This course is very helpful and teach a lot of things about accounting, finacing, and calculating , goodwill, incoming statement etc.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 14, 2021
The explanation is so simple. For anyone who wants to really understand about accounting, this course is one of your to go.
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 23, 2020
Absolutely The BEST instructor ! The course is very interesting and opens you mind to think about accounting in very different ways.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 2, 2020
Good quick overview with accounting for non accountants, or a review for accountants that haven't use look for the big picture for a while :)
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 7, 2020
Excellent course. Instructor was engaging and material was well thought out. I recommend as any intro to financial accounting.
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Nadia
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 10, 2018
With no prior knowledge of accounting it's surprising how easy it is to progress through the course. professor Miller has an amazing ability to explain new concepts in an easy to understand manner!
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Adonis
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·Reviewed Oct 15, 2020
The course is really helpful with giving an understanding of fundamentals and basics of accounting, laying a foundation for better understanding on making and understanding books of accounts
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Daria
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 23, 2018
I liked the course very much. It completed my knowledge base about accounting, which I already acquired during my offline MBA program, so I'd strongly advise it, if people are already familiar with the subject. Greg Miller's teaching style is very comfortable - he did a great job.
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Tsamtsoukakis
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 17, 2021
The best course if you want to review the basics in accounting and work your terminology in English if its not your native language. Professor Greg l have no words really, best teacher by far in any course l have til now.
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Saad
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 7, 2020
Having a wonderful experience one of the great teacher Prof Greg Miller gained a lot of learning from. Very Supportive and helpful material in this course specially lectures form Prof Greg Miller
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David
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 3, 2022
This course is very intense, and a lot can be gained from paying attention to the professors' lecturers. He makes light work of the accounting process. Kudos to the professor.
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Rajesh1
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·Reviewed Nov 4, 2020
Excellent Course.. Forgot to mention.. It would be Great if students can get some Credit points. Maybe designing this type of course with that in mind would be really Great
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Daniel
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 14, 2018
I really enjoyed the course, it was an interesting and encouraging refresher of the skills I acquired during the last ten years more or less detailed within my different jobs.
I'd be happy, if there was a short written summary of key aspects for each section. As it usually takes a couple of weeks to go through the course this would be very helpful to refresh previous weeks' concepts and also afterwards further enhance the learning experience in daily business.
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Zulfiyya
3.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2020
In terms of revising my past knowledge and getting new information about some key points , It contributed so much to me . But It would be perfect if in every assignment there were comprehensive explanations for each questions when my answer was wrong.
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19-054_Nandya
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 29, 2022
This course explains how accounting can be used as a means to determine or make a decision within the company or from other scopes. Accounting is usually in the form of reports, especially financial statements, company cash reports, and others that contain financial income and expenses within the company in order to produce information and decisions and determine the progress of a company. In life, of course, accounting is very helpful and useful in financial processes, company progress, and even information retrieval.
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Molly
5.0
·Reviewed May 21, 2022
Very well presented! I liked the approach of journal entries along with t-accounts, this provided knowledge of how to account for the transactions and how the transactions affect accounts. I appreciated the upbeat and different view of thinking about the subject matter rather than the retired monotonous memorizing and plodding through the material.
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Xinyi
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 21, 2021
This is a fabulous course. The instructor has organized the material in a logical and comprehensible way. The cocepts and principles are conveyed with succinct but on the point examples for us to understand. I would definitely recommend this course to everyone who is interested in knowing about accounting.
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Walid
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 4, 2019
Excellent!
I strongly recommend, the lessons are clear. The explanation simple.
It took me one hour to understand better accounting principles never caught in my education courses.
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Zakaria
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 25, 2018
I LOVE THIS COURSE
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Ayorinde
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 29, 2018
Awesome course!
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Woocheol
4.0
·Reviewed Jan 9, 2023
The best course out here (provided for free) in Coursera that will best suit for just the starter or the beginner of leanring an accounting!! Highly recommended while it may be hard.
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Urbana
4.0
·Reviewed Nov 8, 2020
adding merchandising operations would have been great. Otherwise, it's a very informative course.
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Debaswini
2.0
·Reviewed Aug 25, 2021
Extremely long, unnecessarily complicated, very difficult exams with 2 tries in 24 hours, too many videos.
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Aarushi
1.0
·Reviewed Jan 19, 2024
I wasted Rs 12000 on this course and still not able to receive the certificate. You are really disappointing.
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William
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 27, 2022
This is a course necessary for all accounting students to add a critical thinking skill to the knowledge you already have. Professor Greg Miller is so eloquent and you can see that he knows his accounting by the way he is able to make you understand complex things so easily. I really like and I appreciate Coursera for giving us all an opportunity to access such material at a low cost of our time only.