Financial Accounting

4.0 credits

Financial accounting is an introduction to the principles and procedures used by organizations to record economic transactions that affect them, and to report the net effect of these transactions to interested external parties. The course will cover the judgment inherent in certain aspects of the recording and reporting process, the acceptable alternatives for recording given transactions, and the effect these judgments and alternatives have on comparisons of the financial reports for different organizations, and on the usefulness of financial reports in general. In conjunction with this, consideration will be given to the failure of financial reports to fully incorporate the economic condition of an organization, and the reason for this.