The Instructor of this course is Dr. Varadraj Bapat, Department of School of Management, IIT Bombay.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students, employees, entrepreneurs (The course will apply to participants various disciplines like Engineering, Sciences, Management, Commerce, Arts, Humanities, Health, Medicine).
COURSE OUTLINE: This course discusses the basic concepts of financial accounting and reporting. The viewpoint is that of readers of financial reports rather than the accountants who prepare them. This course is designed with the following objectives:
(i) Help the participants to become intelligent users of accounting information
(a)Understand the basic accounting and financial terminology.
(b)Understand how events affect firm value
(c)Understand how financial transactions are recorded.
(d)Make the participants’ comfortable looking through financial statements
(ii) Develop the ability in participants’ to use financial statements to assess a company’s performance