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Foundations of Management,

Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to communicate the firm's financial and economic information to external parties such as shareholders and creditors. Nobody working in business can afford financial illiteracy. Whether you run your own business, work as a manager or are just starting your career, you want to understand financial information and be able to interact with accountants, controllers, and financial managers. You want to talk business! This course will provide you with the accounting language's essentials. Upon completion, you should be able to read and interpret financial statements for business diagnosis and decision-making. More importantly, you will possess the conceptual base to keep learning more sophisticated accounting and finance on your own. Do not forget that, as with any other language, becoming proficient with accounting requires constant practice.

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Rating 4.8 based on 232 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From IESE Business School via Coursera
Instructor Marc Badia
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Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Finance Leadership And Management

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This is a great course covering the essentials for financial accounting!

Now I can easily understand financial accounting and am ready to learn a ton more!

Very good approach to financial accounting, starting from scratch and case based.

At the end of the course, you are going to learn the principles of financial accounting with real examples.

I recommend this to anyone with or without prior knowledge of Financial accounting Greate course EASY TO UNDERSTAND.

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I started without knowing anything about financial accounting and now I feel confident in understanding, analyzing and evaluating the financial statements of a company!

Well thought and developed financial accounting course.

Very useful, mainly for people without financial accounting knowledge or people that want to refresh their knowledge on the subject.

The course has given to me a very solid foundation knowledge about financial accounting without being familiar with it before.

As someone with no Financial background(Engineer), this course helped me learn the basic of Financial Accounting and gave me a solid start preparation for my MBA start.

As a fresh MBA admit coming from scientific background, I was looking for a course that would cover the basics of Financial accounting, the so-called language of business.

The course is very helpful and provides a strong basis for understanding Financial Accounting.

Excellent introduction to Financial Accounting.

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Hi Everyone!I have almost completed the course (just waiting for my peer-to-peer assessment evaluation) and I would like to share my experience with the course “Accounting: Principles of Financial Accounting” by prof. Marc Badia.The course is taught is a simple and understandable language.

By providing case examples prof. Marc Badia explains all the accounting principles and their applicability in real business.

The professor Marc Badia has explained the concepts lucidly and one can get so involved in the lectures and case study that this 4 weeks course can be completed in just 4 days.

Thanks to Prof. Marc Badia and everyone who framed this course in the best possible and simple way.

Loved it This course provides an in-depth knowledge and deep insight into the basics.The instructor Mr.Marc Badia has really done a good job explaining the concepts from the real world scenario.

I will like to appreciate the organisers of this course and Professor Marc Badia for his succinctly delivered lectures.

Creo que consultare los videos más veces para seguir recordando los conceptos aprendidos.Mis felicitaciones al professor Marc Badia por tener la habilidad de explicar este tema de manera fácil e entendible.

Marc Badia's Principles of Financial Accounting was the answer to it.

Professor Marc Badia has a gift for deconstructing dense material into digestible bits through concise weekly videos.

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Professor Marc Badia gave the topics easily and clearly and the tests were not too hard on us.

Very well done instrument to learn.Congrats Mr Marc Badia, it's very pleasure to follow your lessons Very good course!

Prof. Marc Badia explains the principles of Accounting in a very clear and entertaining way through the use of interesting examples and he repeats the main concepts different times in order to fix them properly.

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This course was excellent, very easy to follow and very interesting and useful.

Clear, direct and easy to follow.

Very good lecture and easy to follow!

Being very dynamic, with a good pace and easy to follow, you will realize in a few weeks that your learning curve has an exponential growth.

Very easy to follow and very well structured.

Great course, easy to follow!

Examples are interesting and easy to follow, while still being in depth enough to cover the material extensively.

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The last part of interpretation of the Financial Statements is a little less accurate (or too quick) in terms of methodology, at least for a total beginner like me.

You didn't really teach in detail for how to interpret a company's financial statements.

Excellent very excellent course, it gives you the full view of Accounting and how to read all financial statements and making sound decisions, Excellent teaching style and ver god knowledge.

The course does not go into the more confusing issues in accounting, and alternative practices and remains focused on key important issue that help you understand and read financial statements.

Really great overview of the three key financial statements (B/S, Inc Stmnt and CF Statement), and I would definitely recommend it to anyone!Matt The best accounting class!

Very well explained and really helped me understand the concepts of the three financial statements explained in the course.

With this course you will be able to understand and make decisions of real companies from real financial statements.

finally I can read financial statements of my company A really helpful course for someone who is a beginner in learning the principles of accounting.

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I will recommend this course to my friends.

I really recommend this course for those who are not familiar with financial accounting and want to understand it and build a solid foundation knowledge.

Great experience but a little lacking on the details needed to pass the quizzes each week....especially week I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in getting a thorough (albeit, rapid) introduction to financial accounting.

I recommend this course for everyone.

I would highly recommend this course.

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highly recommend

Great overview, lectures and real life examples by Prof. Badia - highly recommended.

Highly recommended.

I highly recommend excellent well planned course This is a very interesting course, I would hace liked the teacher would explain a little bit more about NOF and Operational ratios, go further on this topics and less analysisi of Balance Sheet and P&L.But in general, great explanations and videos and completely easy to understand everything, very good examples.

I will highly recommend it to anyone trying to find thier way through financial accounting principles.

ES MUY BUENO PROFESIONALMENTE it is unimaginable to grasp accounting basics that easy , it is highly recommended for understanding financial accounting foundation Short and straight to the point.

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Easy, understandable, a great introduction for beginners.

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Very well structured course!

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Rating 4.8 based on 232 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From IESE Business School via Coursera
Instructor Marc Badia
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Finance Leadership And Management

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