CORE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I & II (RSM 1320 and 1321)

Understanding financial statements is crucial for succeeding in management. Whether you want to specialize in finance, marketing, organizational behavior, or any other area of management, you will need to understand the financial statements of your company, of your competitors, or those companies you intend to invest in or lend to. At the end of the term students should be able to read and interpret financial statements, both what the statements tell us and, even more importantly, what they don't. In order to be able to use financial statements one should have some technical knowledge of the process by which these statements are prepared. The pedagogical approach of the course is to use lectures, problems and cases.