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About the Course

This course is the first course in a five-course Financial Reporting Specialization that covers the collection, processing, and communication of accounting information (via financial reports) about economic entities to interested parties (i.e., managers and external stakeholders such as stockholders and creditors). To gain the most relevant knowledge from these courses, learners should have taken a basic accounting course prior to this Specialization (which can be done through Coursera courses, such as any accounting course from the Fundamentals of Accounting Specialization: https://eu-softintimates.top/specializations/accounting-fundamentals). This Specialization focuses on accounting concepts, principles and theory with an emphasis on problems that arise in applying these concepts for external reporting purposes. Specific emphasis is placed on measurement of assets, liabilities, equities and income, as well as disclosure of additional information that may assist users understand the financial reports. After a brief introduction to the course, we will spend time understanding the overall financial accounting structure and standards as well as review the fundamental accounting process used to prepare the financial statements, which will establish a framework for the study of the concepts in the remaining courses in the Financial Reporting Specialization. In this course, we will begin our review of key information included in the Balance Sheet and Income Statement and their related financial disclosures. The Statement of Cash Flows will be introduced briefly with more discussion to follow in later courses of the Specialization. Also, we will provide a cursory review of key concepts involving time value of money as we will finish this course with focus on revenue recognition, including discussion of the new revenue standard. We will review the general approach for recognizing revenue, special issues affecting revenue recognition including long-term construction contracts. In addition, we will discuss and review common ratios used in profitability analysis. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, consistently ranked as one of the nation's top three accounting programs, now offers a master’s in accounting at a very affordable tuition rate and is completely online. The iMSA is a full Master of Accountancy program and students graduate with an MS that is highly recognized. Try an open course or two, then apply for admission into the credit-bearing version as you may be eligible to take credit-bearing courses during the application process. If you are missing any prerequisites for the full degree, you can complete Coursera courses to demonstrate readiness and strengthen your application for the iMSA. For more information on this exciting iMSA online program, refer to this link: https://eu-softintimates.top/degrees/imsa...

Top reviews

IP

Sep 6, 2022

All topics covered in this course were explained well and shown how to implement, highly recommended for beginners and individuals who would like to brush up on their accounting knowledge foundations

CS

Apr 19, 2023

Very informative and the Professor has a unique way of providing examples for better understanding of the concepts. Would recommend this course for both professionally and for general knowledge.

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By Natasha S M P

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Jun 23, 2025

Excellent

By Nguyen V H K H

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Apr 17, 2025

Very good

By MARIA A A R

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Nov 22, 2020

Thank you

By Yoghi D S

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Jul 8, 2025

Worth it

By Rashad M

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Mar 15, 2020

sogood

By Andi A M

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Jul 9, 2025

good

By TrangLTKHS173416

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Jan 18, 2025

nice

By Hamdy Z G B

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Nov 4, 2019

nice

By Marcel M E

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Apr 19, 2020

Overall great. One issue was that the meaning of shortcuts where not on the slides and therefore searching in the videos was necessary. Another way for inprovement would be a reference on each slide or beginning of a slidedeck regarding a topic where to find this in the topic in the additional literature/book provided.

By Kaylan W

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Oct 3, 2018

Good intro course to accounting. I had done a BBA with a few accounting classes and I found it to be easy so even someone with half the prerequisite knowledge would be able to find their way just fine. The instructor was good too!

By Wilhelmina U L

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Dec 30, 2017

This is a bite size learning course. The case study will really test you on how did you understand the subject.

By OLUBUNMI E I

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May 18, 2020

Course materials are fantastic

By Mei M

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Jul 2, 2021

Very insightful

By Anupom S

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Feb 28, 2021

awesome

By Atul K P

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May 9, 2020

good

By Queen o C

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Jan 4, 2023

Confusing and Frustrating. I do not recommend this course unless you are already an Accountant.

The Course itself is flawed withing the quizzes and possibly poor editing of the videos makes passing quizzes on the first go around very difficult. I took 2 Bookkeeping Courses prior to this course and I feel that is the ONLY reason I was able to complete this course. This may be a Continuing Education Course for Accountants NOT a course for beginners!

Good Luck!

I recommend Intuit's Academy of Bookkeeping

By Mae A O

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Jul 30, 2021

The learning experience was great. It was such a refresher course for me but I still learned a lot from Prof. Davis. I appreaciate the modules and how the whole course run through. It was very easy to understand even though it was full packed of lessons. Prof. Davis also gave clear explanation to everything specially to all the computations we need to do in accounting. Truly, it was such an amazing learning experience.

By Amrita S

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Oct 16, 2020

The course is really fruitful. It provided me the information of financial system in the USA. Various topics such as, GAAP, revenue recognition, ration analysis, etc. helped me to refresh my mind and review with the subject I have learned before during my college days. The presentation style and lecture of the lecturer was simple and easy to understand.

By Haoqian W

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Apr 19, 2021

What a nice course! As an U of I alum, I took this course to reconsolidate my foundation in accounting before going studying for a MSc Accy degree. Prof. Greg's teaching not only did a great job at that, but also makes me likes accounting even more! Thank you for this wonderful course

By Muhammad A U B

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Jul 12, 2020

As a 'potential' professional accountant, I think I require these type of courses as many as possible. It was a great learning experience throughout this course. Thank you, the team behind this Course, my learning partners and Coursera!

By Hemakshi D K

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Jun 23, 2021

I really enjoyed learning this course. The instrcutor Gregory Davis patiently explained basic accounting concepts in very systematized way.

Thanks Gregory Sir, Coursera team and University of Illinios for developing this course.

By Md. A U B

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Jul 12, 2020

As a 'veteran' accounting and finance professional, I believe I require these types of courses as much as possible. It was a nice learning experience throughout this course. Thank you, the team behind this Course and Coursera!

By Yawa k R K

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Sep 1, 2023

i was very good cours i learn for my personnal knowledge, regarding to finance thank you so much ILLINOIS for the chance to known more about accounting analysis

By Ngọc T N

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Feb 10, 2022

The course is great. Diverse and in-depth lesson materials on accounting analysis knowledge. I am grateful for the opportunity to take this course.

By Muhammad A H

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Nov 26, 2021

An amazing course for getting Ideas about Current and non current assets as well as liabilities. Thank you Sir Gregory L. Davis.