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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

MM

Feb 3, 2016

I took Brian Bushee's course and found him to be one of the BEST INSTRUCTORS I'VE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. If you've had trouble with accounting courses in the past, HE IS THE INSTRUCTOR FOR YOU!!!

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.

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By Kelli F

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May 20, 2022

It would have been helpful to have explanations of why answers were incorrect on the final exam.

By Trent B

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Sep 5, 2017

Good professor, good energy, varied teaching methods with repetition, repetition and repetition.

By Niccolò P

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Nov 15, 2016

Very good teacher and arguments. I suggest to follow these lessons to improve accounting skills

By Rick M

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Aug 1, 2022

I enjoyed the course, but I did find it a bit hard to follow at times. I liked the teacher.

By SUMIN C

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Sep 1, 2017

I learned a lot from his lecture and I am willing to take course again to understand better

By Hossam F

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Sep 28, 2019

The professor is great, however the material is too much for such a short course.

By Parthasarathy S R

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Dec 24, 2018

Great content and teaching delivery! Thanks for the course material and approach.

By Duc T

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Jul 4, 2018

The course did a good job on teaching me the basic accounting and ration analysis

By Farhan R

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May 22, 2020

Gave good knowledge about financial accounting and cleared many misconceptions.

By Simone S

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May 6, 2020

The course is very straight forward with short lecture videos and weekly exams.

By upendra p

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Jul 14, 2017

Excellent course content and delivery. The week 3 & 4 could have more examples.

By Aravind N

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Feb 21, 2017

An excellent course for beginners. The idea of virtual classroom was good.

By Fikri Ö

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Dec 26, 2016

Last week of the course should examine in detail for better understanding.

By PADALA S G

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Mar 31, 2020

The course was really practical and Professor was ok in cracking jokes.

By Jacques L C

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Mar 26, 2020

Clear and concise initiation. The jokes become annoying at some point.

By Gabriel F

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Jun 24, 2016

Good materials, professor is passionate. Tests are a bit hard, though!

By Saurabh P

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Aug 19, 2022

Overall good, but giving 4 star because of Using GAAP instead of IFRS

By Ahmed J A

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Jul 2, 2018

Thank you so much I suggest add the Arabic language for some courses.

By Erjon S

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Aug 12, 2016

This helped me a lot during my exam for my MBA. Thank you professor.

By Herath M C K H

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Dec 19, 2015

Great Course to get the fundamentals of accounting into your brain

By Eliza G

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Aug 10, 2018

should go into more advanced stuff like goodwill and tax and nci

By Kathryn C

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Nov 3, 2017

Clear presentation, lots of information, practical application.

By Ahmed R

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Feb 8, 2016

Very good course i learned a lot ; all thanks for the professor

By Lee S

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Dec 18, 2021

Challenging for non-financial folks, like me. Learned a lot.

By Athina P

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Feb 20, 2017

Interesting course to get you familiar with accounting topics!