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Course Name	Course Type	Syllabus
Preparing Financial Statements and Closing Accounts	Course	View details Course Syllabus \| Print Syllabus Preparing Financial Statements and Closing Accounts Overview/Description: “Developing your financial acumen is a must in todays economy and improving your knowledge of accounting basics and financial management is a good first step. In this course youll explore the financial essentials that will enable you to understand key steps in the management of finance within the accounting cycle. Youll learn how once youÆve worked your way through recording transactions and posting to ledgers youÆre ready to start preparing financial statements. Youll learn about Income Statements Balance Sheets Cash Flow Statements and how theyre interrelated. Youll also learn about the steps involved in closing accounts.” Course Number: bs_fin09_a03_enus
Accounting for Stock Transactions	Course	View details Course Syllabus \| Print Syllabus Accounting for Stock Transactions Overview/Description: “One of the great advantages of a corporate form of organization is it allows otherwise unaffiliated people to join in mutual ownership of a business. Therefore everyone involved needs an understanding of the financial essentials and how they influence the companys overall financial management. Strengthening your own financial acumen with a knowledge of accounting basics is the first step. In this course youll learn about the key characteristics of finance within incorporated organizations. Youll explore how common financial transactions affect the corporations financial position. Youll also learn concepts and accounting processes for corporate transactions including those involving common and preferred stocks treasury stocks and dividends.” Course Number: bs_fin09_a04_enus
Key Accounting Concepts and Principles	Course	View details Course Syllabus \| Print Syllabus Key Accounting Concepts and Principles Overview/Description: “How do organizations communicate vital business and finance information? Achieving the utmost clarity in communication requires knowledge of financial management and a strong understanding of accounting basics. Accounting an internal function that involves identifying recording summarizing and reporting business transactions and financial events in an organization. In this course youÆll learn the core concepts and financial essentials of accounting such as the accounting equation and its components as well as the rule of debits and credits. Youll also develop your financial acumen by exploring the accounting cycle and the effect of cash and accrual-based accounting systems.” Course Number: bs_fin09_a01_enus
Recording Posting and Balancing the Books	Course	View details Course Syllabus \| Print Syllabus Recording Posting and Balancing the Books Overview/Description: “If your organizational role is related to accounting or finance youÆll most likely need solid financial acumen and a strong grasp of the accounting basics of recording posting and balancing your organizationÆs books. In this course youÆll learn financial essentials related to bookkeeping such as the steps in the accounting cycle that happen after transactions have been identified and analyzed. Youll learn how to carry out vital financial management activities including how to make general and special journal entries and how to post those transactions to accounts in the general and subsidiary ledgers. Youll also learn how to prepare trial balances and make adjusting entries.” Course Number: bs_fin09_a02_enus