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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

YR

Jun 13, 2022

It is a great course for beginers like me to start to learn about accounting. The concepts are easy to understand, and the examples are very helpful for understanding. I like the virtual students btw.

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 Ben G

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Apr 25, 2020

Obviously with this being an Ivy league course it's gonna be pretty good, but it was pretty hard. Don't let introductory fool you though, this is CPA level stuff.

By Isabel M

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Apr 24, 2021

Even for an accounting novice like me, everything is very well explained. This course can help you get a great foundation for other higher level courses as well.

By Benjamin M

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Jul 30, 2019

The professor was informative and lively. He anticipated questions and answered them clearly. I had a lot of fun learning a lot of new material in this course.

By Girish C

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Dec 26, 2017

Great primer for folks without any business or accounting background. Professor is amazing in ensuing that the course is not boring and slowly builds on concepts

By Desi L

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Aug 19, 2020

Prof brian Bushee gave clear step by step explanation with examples, plus a dash of humour on the side. Never thought learning accounting could be so enjoyable!

By Rahul N

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Apr 14, 2020

Excellent course for learning basics of accounting. Prof. Brian really knows how to keep students engaged. The virtual students asking doubts was a nice touch.

By MB

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Feb 7, 2020

Best introduction course for understanding Financial Statements, basic accounting and ratios. Virtual students are really funny and make this course a fun ride.

By Kamal J

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Sep 4, 2016

Awesome course in a mannered way. Plus I hate the animations that were shown in the video. So next time please try to do without them, they irritate very badly.

By Christa N F

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Aug 28, 2023

I think this professor explains Ratios better than the Finance coach at PSU, and better than my text book and class did at my school for Principals of Finance.

By Chang L

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Aug 11, 2019

After taking the courses, have a basic understanding of balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement. The course is easy to understand and interesting.

By Anshul S

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Aug 6, 2017

Excellent teacher. Goes through extra effort to keep his students engaged, which any regular teacher would not do due to the extra effort that would be needed!

By Lutz E

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Jun 3, 2016

Bushee is brilliant. Accounting may not be the most fun topic to learn, but he really makes it entertaining (yes Accounting, entertaining). Highly recommended.

By Gia T

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Jul 3, 2020

Professor Bushee is a brilliant teacher. The introduction of new concepts is made easy to understand and can be applied right away in a real work environment.

By Yaren A

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Aug 10, 2018

This course helped me develop skills on financial accounting, lectures were informative and fun. Also forums were helpful for understanding important details.

By coty

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Jun 29, 2016

Great class, that is my first coursera course and I, surprisingly, find it nothing boring at all, but in fact inspirational. Many thanks for Professor Bushee.

By Anne

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Feb 28, 2016

This was an excellent course, I've really enjoyed it and learned a lot. More practice exercises would make it even better. Thanks a lot for the course, Brian!

By Shoujiro K

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Aug 13, 2021

Very interesting course and well thought out, I though the virtual students were giving good taste to the questions that I also had when watching the videos.

By Jui-wen L

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Jan 2, 2019

This professor's funny interactive approach made me laugh and kept me engaged. He himself was hilarious as well.... Make sure to check out his "Hokey Pokey".

By Sadiq A

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Jan 30, 2016

Pretty interesting and accurate explanation of the concepts. Plus the animations are amazing and very close to how students feel in the span of the videos :D

By Lauren G

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May 31, 2020

I loved this class. Professor Brian Bushee is really an amazing teacher. I can't believe how much I have learned and how much I want to learn in the future!

By Kirti T

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Jun 4, 2019

Course is very good and gave basic knowledge of the concepts in a such way so that even a person from non- finance background like me understood them easily

By Pankaj K

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Dec 21, 2017

This course covers very basic details of financial accountings which helps you understand the basics. Thank you for such interesting and descriptive course.

By Chirag B C

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Jul 19, 2017

Being an Engineering student I understood the concepts very efficiently. Before the course i had no idea of accounting and learnt many aspects in the field.

By Juheon K

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May 14, 2017

It was a great chance to learn financial accounting in English and this course is very well organized and inclusive of much important content! I loved it :)

By Brice M

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Nov 26, 2016

Amazing teacher, very helpful to help you understand the concepts in an enjoyable manner. Very organised course and managable. Highly recommend it to anyone