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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Financial Accounting by University of Pennsylvania

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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 Ganesan

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Jan 15, 2019

Was quite difficult to understand, might have design much simpler way . Probably with lengthier and easier approach.

By Kelly D

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May 8, 2017

For me it was very hard to understand - I feel like I still don't understand it :/ BUT good teacher, he was good.

By Megan A

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Feb 8, 2023

a lot of information. professor very knowledgeable but would get lost and have to rewatch to understand concepts

By Kenneth C

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Jan 20, 2018

the learning curve is really really steep, i feel like it could have been split in two and slowed down more,

By Mohamed I A

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Jan 22, 2022

Nice work but instructor needs to move slowly and give more explanasions

By Allison M

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Feb 16, 2017

Quite challenging if you're not a practicing Accountant

By Deleted A

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Aug 26, 2020

I am not understanding all information in this course

By Mike B

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Jan 18, 2018

Virtual students are awful. Please make them go away!

By Sodiq A T

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Aug 28, 2020

It's an eye opening course

Thank you professor.

By Dani C

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May 8, 2018

Videos are all so similar, seemed outdated.

By David H

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Apr 25, 2020

Not really for beginners, but informative

By Raghav G

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Apr 19, 2021

need to be taught in a more creative way

By Krzysztof L

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Aug 29, 2017

Good knowledge, but very poor videos

By Aaron A

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Mar 19, 2018

wish it was a little more involved

By Logan C

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Jun 16, 2020

useful but extremely dry videos

By Kerry H

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Mar 27, 2019

This was really hard

By Brianna C

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May 17, 2020

accounting is hard

By Alois M

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Sep 26, 2017

Reasonably good

By Chris L

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Jul 11, 2016

It's iite.

By Paul V D W

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Jun 3, 2020

cool

By Arman A

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Apr 19, 2016

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By Katie K

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Jun 24, 2023

I've done quite a few online classes, both through Coursera and through other places. I did not find this class helpful at all. I might have felt differently if the teacher spent more time actually teaching and less time arguing with the fake AI students. Telling a computer generated image with a computerized voice, "Well, I'm certainly not going to argue with your sister from Hong Kong!" after being told "well my sister in Hong Kong said your wrong!" is just not helpful.

By Kate H

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Jul 17, 2022

The digital "students" in between lectures are quite distracting and I think the instructor tried to make it realistic by having them in the lectures, but most of the times their english is weird and mechanic and also some scenes like students sleeping cuz bored... These are waste of time and not fun at all, after many repetitions of such scenes. Got distracted throughout the course

By Michał S

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Apr 14, 2024

I think that the professor is very nice. The problem I had with this course was that I learned how to calculate some things, but I don't really understand why do I calculate them. I think that this course is not for future accountants - because it is not in-depth enough, so it should be less about calculating things and more about what is accounting actually about.

By Diana G

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Jan 13, 2021

The lectures are long and not as efficiently or logically organized as they could be in order to impart the basic understanding that the quizzes ultimately ask for. I found myself using the PDFS and it was easier to follow that way.