ACC482

Course Description

Financial accounting and reporting is the primary medium by which organizations provide financial information to their external stakeholders (e.g., shareholders, creditors, governmental agencies, customers) for both informational and decision making purposes. This course is designed to be consistent with this purpose and involves the study of the foundations of accounting methods and systems, including transaction analysis, the accrual system of accounting, the process of income measurement, and the construction and analysis of financial statements. The primary focus of the course will be on the users of accounting information. This course assumes no prior accounting knowledge.

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