Financial Accounting

Overview

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

Syllabus

Course Introduction: Financial Accounting.
Week 1 - Lecture 1.
Week 1 - Lecture 2.
Week 1 - Lecture 3.
Week 1 - Lecture 4.
Week 1 - Lecture 5.
Week 2 - Lecture 6.
Week 2 - Lecture 7.
Week 2 - Lecture 8.
Week 2 - Lecture 9.
Week 2 - Lecture 10.
Week 3 - Lecture 11.
Week 3 - Lecture 12.
Week 3 - Lecture 13.
Week 3 - Lecture 14.
Week 3 - Lecture 15.
Week 4 - Lecture 16.
Week 4 - Lecture 17.
Week 4 - Lecture 18.
Week 4 - Lecture 19.
Week 4 - Lecture 20.
Week 5 - Lecture 21.
Week 5 - Lecture 22.
Week 5 - Lecture 23.
Week 5 - Lecture 24.
Week 5 - Lecture 25.
Week 6 - Lecture 26.
Week 6 - Lecture 27.
Week 6 - Lecture 28.
Week 6 - Lecture 29.
Week 6 - Lecture 30.
Week 7 - Lecture 31.
Week 7 - Lecture 32.
Week 7 - Lecture 33.
Week 7 - Lecture 34.
Week 7 - Lecture 35.
Week 8 - Lecture 36.
Week 8 - Lecture 37.
Week 8 - Lecture 38.
Week 8 - Lecture 39.
Week 8 - Lecture 40.