2 mins to read Financial Accounting Fundamentals : This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: the time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period.
What you’ll learn: Financial Accounting Fundamentals
How to use journal entries to record transactions and prepare and use t-accounts to summarize transactions recorded during an accounting period
The three most commonly used financial statements and how they fit together
How to prepare these financial statements based on transactions recorded during an accounting period
How to draw basic conclusions about a company’s financial health
Details: Financial Accounting Fundamentals
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you’ll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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