UIUC - Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position

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Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position
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Overview

Duration	12 hours
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Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Credential	Certificate

Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position
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Highlights

This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
Shareable Certificates.
Graded Programming Assignments.

Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Accounting Communication skills Business Communication

More about this course

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the balance sheet. However, to understand accounting driven financial statements, it is important to recognize that accounting is less about counting and more about measuring. ?What is it that is being measured?? Well, as the course unfolds, you will learn about the three measurement questions and how the balance sheet helps to answer the first two of these questions. By touring a real company and interviewing real business people, the course describes the basic content of financial statements in a simple yet relevant context. The goal of the course is to leave a lasting impression about what balance sheet consists of and what it reveals. The next course in the Fundamentals of Accounting Specialization completes the conversation by addressing the remaining measurement question.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
? Describe the purpose of a balance sheet.
? Define the three components of a balance sheet.
? Recognize and understand the meaning of several items typically presented on a balance sheet.
? Explain the broader purpose of financial statements and the role of accounting in producing the financial statements.
? Read and, to some extent, interpret real-world balance sheets.
If you enjoy this business course and are interested in an MBA, consider applying to the iMBA, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price offered by the University of Illinois. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.