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About the Course

Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization....

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MM

Feb 3, 2016

I took Brian Bushee's course and found him to be one of the BEST INSTRUCTORS I'VE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. If you've had trouble with accounting courses in the past, HE IS THE INSTRUCTOR FOR YOU!!!

EY

Sep 19, 2019

The course is very easy to understand, and most importantly it is fun to learn accounting! I find this course covers basic yet comprehensive contents compared to other basic accounting online courses.

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By Yangyang Q

Aug 24, 2017

很不错的入门指导,老师很可爱

By Ahmed E I

Oct 20, 2016

great prof ^_^

By Dmitry V

Feb 22, 2016

Helpful, easy.

By Eric A

Jul 5, 2017

Enlightening!

By Gabriel R C

Sep 20, 2021

ótimo curso

By Robert B

Jun 26, 2020

difficult!!

By amey b

Jun 6, 2019

Good Course

By Martin S

Jun 26, 2018

Good info.

By mahmoud m

May 3, 2020

thank you

By Abhishek P

Aug 8, 2017

Superb !!

By imran

Nov 11, 2015

Its nice

By VIDUSHI M

Apr 5, 2019

great

By PONNAGANTI S R P C

Jul 9, 2022

good

By 霍建

Jul 14, 2019

nice

By Vijay K S

Oct 26, 2022

I am not very excited about the course Introduction to Financial Accounting. Because there is no explanation of the

questions that I encounterd. In final exam few questions I feel needs an explanation but I was lost I didn't get calrifications. Few questions I guessede that's not not good to undersatns the bsic concepts. The questions were out of topics of the class. I feel that Pof. Brian Bushee didn't sincerely lectured this class. I compare this with the last class I took with Prof. Robert Sheelar of Yale University Introduction of Financial Markets. It was such a clarity in lectures and test that I didn't have much problems and I passed with disticntion. I was very much dissapointed. Vijay Sinha!

By Adya S

Jul 4, 2022

The Introduction to Financial Accounting course was particularly challenging.

Professor Bushee did explain concepts however utilised terminology that only experienced accountants would understand. The virtual students were quite distracting due to their non-student charctersitics.

The quizzes and exams were very hard and required detailed analysis of notes and I had to try each quiz at least 5 times to pass.

I would reccomend this course only for people who have a basic understanding of financial accounting but if you are looking to start to learn financial accounting, its best to look somewhere else.

By michele b

Dec 29, 2015

Although Professor Bushee is very good, the matter is not really entertaining, especially during the first two weeks of the course.

To actually learn and pass the exam it is not sufficient to watch the videos, some work should be done at home.

To improve the course I would suggest to introduce more homework with written solutions or to lengthen the parts of the videos where exercises and examples are shown. Also, in these parts, the theoretical concepts explained in the previous videos could be reminded more often.

By Tian L

Jan 22, 2021

Too less homework. I didn't feel totally understand the course. What I did is practicing in the quizzes. But before the quizzes, I want to get 1 to 2 "traditional examples" to fully understand the formula, the accounting system, and the logic behind the calculation. Although there are some examples in the course videos, they are not hard enough compare to the quizzes' questions. Instead of learning in the quiz, I really prefer doing some similar practice before the quiz.

By Varun R

Jan 25, 2021

Overall, this course gives a great overview of all the concepts necessary to understand the language of accounting. I appreciated how it dissected balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. However, I did feel that there could have been better preparation for the final exam. The quizzes and in-class exercises do not really reflect the types of questions on the final.

By Tracy

Feb 19, 2016

Good course but the quizzes are multiple choice / multiple answer so each question is really like 5 questions. And, the related content for each quiz question is hard to track down once you've already gone through the video lessons.

There should be a tie back to the original content within the quiz grading so that a more narrow focus can be made for the missed questions.

By Morgan R

Jan 28, 2018

Professor Bushee is very enaging, and tries very hard to make a rather dry topic interesting. The quizes feel purposefully tricky, which makes it hard to feel like your actually learning the material. Overall I feel like the course created more questions than it answered, and I feel like I now have the tools to learn the material, instead of feeling like I learned it.

By Diana A

Jun 3, 2017

Good overview. I wouldn't call it complete intro. I have a good understanding of finance from 10 years of non-profit management experience, but I found that this course didn't explain basic terms to start and assumed that you know all the definitions. That said, I got a lot out of this course and now know what to look for moving forward.

By S Z

Jul 7, 2020

Some of the concepts like dividend, retained earnings and additional paid-in capital are not clearly explained, so It's troublesome when I encountered questions related to those topics on the exam. This course is somewhat confusing, maybe because of its short length. But I still learned things from it.

By Michael D

Aug 1, 2020

Although the professor was personable, I feel like the material was going by too quickly. It would be nice to have some kind of textbook. There should be a way to make sure that the student doesn't constantly refer to notes during the exam, but I guess nothing can be done about that.