V.G. Narayanan spent many years thinking about what he would do if he had the opportunity to create an online course. Watching how his kids learned on the computer inspired him to rethink the possibilities; his Financial Accounting course is the result. V.G. has been teaching accounting at HBS for last 20 years and is currently the Head of the Accounting and Management Unit. He has chaired the pre-MBA summer program at HBS and taught introductory accounting to incoming MBA students in the summer Analytics program for the past several years. He has also served as the course head for the first-year required accounting course for MBA students - Financial Reporting and Control. In addition, he chairs several executive education programs and serves on the boards of companies and non-profit organizations.