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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....

Top reviews

EY

Sep 19, 2019

The course is very easy to understand, and most importantly it is fun to learn accounting! I find this course covers basic yet comprehensive contents compared to other basic accounting online courses.

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.

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By Joseph W A

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Jun 27, 2020

Course was very difficult to follow although the content itself was excellent. It needs to be delivered in a more engaging manner especially for students who do not have any prior accounting background.

By Prachita S

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Jun 14, 2020

The complete course created more confusion than clarification. The way the content was explained didnt make the learning easy.

By Luana V

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Aug 21, 2017

Course is not very interactive (or has rudimentary interactivity), it's exhausting to complete and follow.

By Tyrel B

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May 30, 2017

Not a fan of the animated video presentations, could have expanded on the vocabulary and concepts.

By Brent C

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Feb 8, 2017

Ironically it seemed not very linear for an accounting course. Those cartoons have to go.

By Osama M A

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Jul 24, 2018

hello my opinion don't use animation part again

Thanks

By Eric H

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Feb 25, 2018

The info is good, but it's painful to watch the videos.

By Shayan K

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Nov 1, 2019

Difficult to follow and videos are very old fashioned.

By Yu W

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Jul 1, 2020

really dry and hard to keep people motivated

By Abhay G

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Sep 18, 2019

It keeps getting boring after every video.

By Francesca M

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Feb 9, 2019

I've only done week 1 of this course, and even though it is said to be for beginners, I would argue and say that it is not designed for beginners. Beginner courses should be designed to teach a student the basics of a subject, and for week 1 there are too many concepts thrown into the lesson plan and there's no way someone who is just learning this will be able to successfully complete the quiz, and the course. The design of Introduction to Marketing was great, the entire course taught you the basics of what you'd expect in Marketing, and it didn't overload you with concepts.

Expecting a student to get an 80% or above on the quizzes when they are just learning accounting is ridiculous. Also, when reviewing the quiz to see what answers you got wrong, all of the questions should provide you with the correct answer so you can at least see what you did wrong.

Overall, this is not a course that is designed very well for beginners, rather this course would discourage beginners from even pursuing a career path in accounting.

By Nadia K

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Jun 16, 2016

Really don't think I learned about accounting after this course. The "virtual students" were distracting, as were the attempts at humour. I came in not knowing much about accounting and don't feel like I left knowing much more.

By Emily G

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May 21, 2016

The graphics that argue for incorrect information are confusing. I believe there could have been clearer examples and better organization of equations and charts.

By Al K A S

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Jun 9, 2020

too difficult to follow up with him

maybe it's the topic that is very different for me

but his way of teaching is also weird

By Claudia C

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Jun 11, 2020

I prefer more interactive courses, with some exercises. I find it quite boring and not immediate to understand

By Navdeep S

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Jul 7, 2020

This is an excellent introductory course to Financial Accounting. However, it is fast paced, and the professor will throw curveballs at you every now and then, which means this course is not for the faint of heart. I also found the wording of certain questions to be a bit vague and confusing, so I had to resort to other learning resources to comprehend what was being asked. And the animations can be a hit or miss, but I think the ones that asked questions or asked for more elaborating were spot on. Prof. Bushee does seem to know where students might struggle and doesn't shy away from elucidating complex topics.

All things considered, I feel this was an immensely rewarding and intellectually challenging course. The final exams tied together the subject matter of every module beautifully, and now I feel I have a really solid grounding if I want to pursue more advanced courses in accounting.

I would recommend this course to everyone who wants to learn about accounting and/or start a career in finance. For those who have had no prior exposure to accounting, this course may seem a bit daunting at first. But fret not. An immense amount of resources is available online, completely free of cost, which you could refer to in order to better comprehend the concepts. If you stick with it, I can assure you that you will find this course worth your time and effort. I found it very rewarding, and I hope so do you!

By D. T W

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Feb 13, 2020

The professor provided a wonderful course. He took a subject that seems scary and made it enjoyable and fun. I thought his jokes, and the use of his virtual students, were an unexpected element that I actually enjoyed more and more throughout the class. For the virtual students, their use of valid questions I may/may not have thought of were great as well as sometimes just saying slow down and repeat. This shows the professor's excellence over his subject AND teaching it.

The material was presented logically and in bite-sized pieces that were easier for a non-business person to understand and retain. The two running examples, Relic Spotter and 3M, were great to synthesize all of the information that had been learned in the current and previous week(s).

While I will definitely have to go through the materials again to cement them into my head, I have learned a lot from this course and thoroughly enjoyed it!

By Oren L

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Apr 5, 2019

The recorded course is ok, but the homework is to basic.

In order to succeed in something like accounting, I would suggest to have a lot more practice available. such as : other written examples that we would need to fill out.

By Ahmed M A E

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Dec 17, 2018

Very informative, but has tricky exercises.

By Asia S

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Aug 22, 2017

Final Quiz questions were very confusing and some did't align with what was taught in class. It would have been more effective if we had more practice and more examples throughout the course. the final was very difficult compared to the other examples and tests.

By Kate W

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Oct 2, 2023

This course is NOT for anyone who has NO previous accounting or business experience as it is WAY too advanced. For someone in my situation, who is just looking to build business acumen in general and interested only in an overview of concepts ( just enough to make sense of a company's financials) this was WAY too difficult. I had to pause and go back SO many times. Take quizzes 2-3 times each. Tried my best to follow along, but was completely lost by Week 2, so it only went downhill from there. It felt like a course you'd take if you actually wanted to DO the job of an accountant - which is NOT the case for me. I didn't mind the animations as it was the only "light" content. Lol.

By Anna O

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Apr 10, 2020

Material was not engaging, even though I love accounting. I found it an effort to watch the videos and given that I chose to do this for a general upskill I would have preferred to had enjoyed it as opposed to it becoming a chore.

By Ratish K

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Jun 9, 2020

Too complicated and too many terms, best for intermediate level and not beginners

By Deleted A

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Sep 17, 2023

This class is extremely confusing.

By Franco M

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Sep 7, 2016

Amazing