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About the Course

In this course, you will learn the foundations of financial accounting information. You will start your journey with a general overview of what financial accounting information is and the main financial statements. You will then learn how to code financial transactions in financial accounting language. In the meantime, you will learn about the most important concept in contemporary financial accounting: accrual accounting. You will then critically analyze how firms recognize revenues. Finally, you will finish the course with an analysis of accounting for short-term assets, where you will go into detail on how firms account for accounts receivable and inventories. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the main financial statements and the financial information • Write a financial transaction in financial accounting language and understand how this impacts the main financial statements • Understand how accrual accounting and fundamental accounting concepts work • Understand revenue recognition principles and how they impact the main financial statements • Account for accounts receivable and inventories. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and go to onlinemba.illinois.edu....

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Sep 3, 2017

Though I have been through Intro Accounting some 3 or 4 times through different classes and seminars, I still found myself learning from this detailed and straight forward presentation of information.

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Jun 6, 2020

The modules were extremely informative and nothing less to say, Oktay sir's presentations were very easy to understand even for a person like me who has no prior knowledge about Financial Accounting.

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By Jennifer B C

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Nov 16, 2020

I am so grateful that I enrolled in this course. It helps me a lot in my professional career as a University Associate Professor.

By Jordan T D

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Jun 13, 2020

Amazing course!!! I learned so much and all the course material has helped me better understand Financial Accounting. Thank you!!

By Matteo L

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Nov 30, 2020

Found it truly simple to understand and follow and learned a lot from it that I implemented in my everyday business immediately.

By Mahmoud A

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Oct 15, 2020

It was a grest honor for me to attend an excellent course like this. It was really full of accounting informations. Thanks alot.

By mjabdinoor

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Sep 2, 2018

The beginning of something great. The instructor was simple and to the point with notable examples that everybody can relate to.

By Delicia D

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Jun 23, 2023

Great learning! Recommended even if you are familiar with the financial accounting concepts as a way to revise your foundations

By Hu S

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Oct 6, 2016

it‘s so great and I can get the point of each lesson. And I think it will play an important role in my future study. Thank you!

By Jaime R

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Jun 12, 2020

Great and clear course for a Fundamental Accounting, the application cases are really useful to put all knowledge on practice.

By Qazi S

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Apr 8, 2020

A very good course for building foundations in Accounting in a very short time with thorough concentration on important topics

By Loreto H

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Oct 25, 2019

Excellent! I can say after taking several classes of accountability that this approach is the best to understand how it works

By Christos P

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Aug 29, 2017

An excellent choice for everyone who wants to understand the basics of Financial Accounting. I totally recommend this course.

By S. M M R

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Jun 12, 2020

It was an excellent journey with that course. As a student of Accounting I enjoyed the course. Thanks to the course teacher.

By Vivek V

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Apr 11, 2020

I can't recommend this course enough. The instructor explains the most complex concepts in a very easy to understand manner.

By Viacheslav N

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Feb 24, 2020

Amazing! Easy going, clear, transparent and very informative. I got basics of subject I never knew before just in few weeks!

By JACKIE H

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Jan 30, 2018

The video lectures were short and I like the fact that there is a review after each video to practice what was just learned.

By سلطان م ا

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May 17, 2022

exceptional course, i salute you for this amazing course and i have learned new things that helped in my work enviroment.

By Nadia S

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May 28, 2020

I really like it really adventures journey and many quiz section make perfect in these fields as well as 4 case studies.

By Raymond W

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Feb 18, 2020

Thank you for putting this course together with the written documents and videos. The combination made learning easier.

By Egamberdiyev A A

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Aug 9, 2020

Actually it has been my first online education on accounting field and it was a great experience. I like it very much.

By Aritra B R C

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Jun 27, 2019

Good paced videos and topic coverage. Practical examples for each topic are convnient to grasp the underlying concepts.

By Camilo A V M

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Jan 22, 2017

This course is very interesting, Have a basic aproach on accounting but develop the key drivers of financial accounting

By Erick K

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Nov 24, 2016

Great program and good lecturer. I plan to complete the 7 courses. Anybody interested in this program should go for it.

By Ganizani G

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Aug 26, 2020

I have acquired the deep insight of understanding of accounting easily with these well planned modules from Coursera.

By Jenny B

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Oct 7, 2018

This professor is talented at accounting and explaining terms. I enjoyed the coursera work and highly recommend UIUC.

By Ilis W

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Jan 19, 2018

challenging but interesting; I did not expect to learn so much; I now look at balance sheets with knowledgeable eyes.