Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding Financial Statements
During this course you learned how to read different financial reports used within businesses today. You explored a range of financial statements and investigated the different branches of accounting and how to identify who else in the business uses this accounting information.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Soha Eldin
Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Coventry University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate the different branches of accounting
- Identify the main users of accounting information and their requirements
- Explain the purpose of financial statements (income statement, statement of financial position and cash flow statement)
- Explore items typically included in each of the financial statements and their meaning
- Interpret financial statements for decision-making purposes
Syllabus
- Introduction to accounting and its branches
- Identifying different users of accounting information and their requirements
- Overview of financial statements
- Introduction to income statement
- Introduction to statement of financial position
- Introduction to cash flow statement
Issued on 30th March 2022
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