BUSINESS *A600 / Financial Accounting and Reporting

3 unit(s)

This course focuses on the role of the accounting function external to organizations. It takes a broad view of financial accounting and reporting encompassing virtually any external information or incentive system. The orientation will help students to understand what accounting can do for managers, the decision-maker, and how accounting policy choice affects decisions. A key aspect of the course is a group project report on the analysis of the annual reports of a sample of firms in a selected industry.