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About the Course

Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization....

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YR

Jun 13, 2022

It is a great course for beginers like me to start to learn about accounting. The concepts are easy to understand, and the examples are very helpful for understanding. I like the virtual students btw.

MM

Feb 3, 2016

I took Brian Bushee's course and found him to be one of the BEST INSTRUCTORS I'VE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. If you've had trouble with accounting courses in the past, HE IS THE INSTRUCTOR FOR YOU!!!

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By Linett C

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Dec 13, 2019

Excellent course, very informative. Professor Brian Bushee did a phenomenal job to explain the fundamentals of accounting in details.. Highly recommend this course.

By Orsolya R H

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Feb 9, 2016

Prof. Brian Bushee is hilarious! His examples and virtual student questions are informative and entertaining at the same time. I loved this course, I learned a lot.

By Juan P G C

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Aug 21, 2020

Excellent! Took the course to review the concepts I had learned several years ago and feel comfortable again with these accounting principles. Thanks Prof. Bushee!

By M F Y

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Apr 9, 2020

Very well taught, even if the subject is tough. I loved the virtual students and the jokes :) I'll take the next course with the remaining 6 lessons. Thank you.

By Roland P

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Oct 13, 2017

Simply the best accounting course I ever had. Thank you professor for all the fun & challenging questions. Please don't go Brian, your fancy characters are great !

By Rima K

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Nov 28, 2015

I really enjoyed it. It informative, interesting and my funny classmates were amaizing.Already looking forward for taking More introduction to Financial Accounting

By YangYI

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Jan 17, 2022

I love professor Brain Bushee so much! He useed simple words and humor method to teach me a course which I didn't understand when i was learning at my university

By Ben G

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Apr 25, 2020

Obviously with this being an Ivy league course it's gonna be pretty good, but it was pretty hard. Don't let introductory fool you though, this is CPA level stuff.

By Isabel M

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Apr 24, 2021

Even for an accounting novice like me, everything is very well explained. This course can help you get a great foundation for other higher level courses as well.

By Benjamin M

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Jul 30, 2019

The professor was informative and lively. He anticipated questions and answered them clearly. I had a lot of fun learning a lot of new material in this course.

By Girish C

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Dec 26, 2017

Great primer for folks without any business or accounting background. Professor is amazing in ensuing that the course is not boring and slowly builds on concepts

By Desi L

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Aug 19, 2020

Prof brian Bushee gave clear step by step explanation with examples, plus a dash of humour on the side. Never thought learning accounting could be so enjoyable!

By Rahul N

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Apr 14, 2020

Excellent course for learning basics of accounting. Prof. Brian really knows how to keep students engaged. The virtual students asking doubts was a nice touch.

By MB

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Feb 7, 2020

Best introduction course for understanding Financial Statements, basic accounting and ratios. Virtual students are really funny and make this course a fun ride.

By Kamal J

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Sep 4, 2016

Awesome course in a mannered way. Plus I hate the animations that were shown in the video. So next time please try to do without them, they irritate very badly.

By Christa N F

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Aug 28, 2023

I think this professor explains Ratios better than the Finance coach at PSU, and better than my text book and class did at my school for Principals of Finance.

By Chang L

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Aug 11, 2019

After taking the courses, have a basic understanding of balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement. The course is easy to understand and interesting.

By Anshul S

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Aug 6, 2017

Excellent teacher. Goes through extra effort to keep his students engaged, which any regular teacher would not do due to the extra effort that would be needed!

By Lutz E

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Jun 3, 2016

Bushee is brilliant. Accounting may not be the most fun topic to learn, but he really makes it entertaining (yes Accounting, entertaining). Highly recommended.

By Gia T

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Jul 3, 2020

Professor Bushee is a brilliant teacher. The introduction of new concepts is made easy to understand and can be applied right away in a real work environment.

By Yaren A

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Aug 10, 2018

This course helped me develop skills on financial accounting, lectures were informative and fun. Also forums were helpful for understanding important details.

By coty

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Jun 29, 2016

Great class, that is my first coursera course and I, surprisingly, find it nothing boring at all, but in fact inspirational. Many thanks for Professor Bushee.

By Anne

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Feb 28, 2016

This was an excellent course, I've really enjoyed it and learned a lot. More practice exercises would make it even better. Thanks a lot for the course, Brian!

By Shoujiro K

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Aug 13, 2021

Very interesting course and well thought out, I though the virtual students were giving good taste to the questions that I also had when watching the videos.