Be it a Fortune 500 company a startup or a nonprofit having a solid understanding of financial accounting principles is essential for making critical business decisions. Offered in collaboration with https//online.hbs.edu/Harvard Business School (HBS) Online this pre-recorded course covers concepts such as profit and revenue assets and liabilities and students learn how to prepare and analyze financial statements. The course covers important accounting principles such as how to record transactions using journal entries; how to post transactions to accounts; and how to prepare a trial balance balance sheet income statement and cash flow statement. Other topics covered include analyzing financial statements and forecasting and valuation. Students emerge with a deeper understanding of the financial accounting methodology and its application in a number of business scenarios. Learning materials and interaction take place primarily within the HBS Online learning environment. Although the professor does not have direct real-time interaction with students he has developed short video lectures cases exercises and other interactive learning elements to create a highly engaging educational experience. Participants typically learn as much (if not more) from thoughtful participation and from peers in this active learning ecosystem as they do from faculty content. Students who have previously enrolled in HBS Online's https//online.hbs.edu/courses/financial-accounting/?utm_source=harvard-summer&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=course_faFinancial Accounting http//www.summer.harvard.edu/academics/courses/MGMT/10MGMT S-10 https//online.hbs.edu/courses/core/HBS Online's CORe or the HBS Online section of https//summer.harvard.edu/academics/courses/MGMT/1000MGMT S-1000 and were still enrolled after the 100 percent refund deadline are not eligible to enroll in this section of MGMT S-1000. They will be dropped from the course. Students cannot count this course toward the HBS Online noncredit CORe or the HBS Online Financial Accounting Certificate. Students can count http//www.summer.harvard.edu/academics/courses/ECON/1900ECON S-1900 or MGMT S-1000 but not both toward an Extension School degree or certificate.
