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Accounting for finance
FIN-411
Lecturer(s) :
Cauvin EricLanguage:
English
Withdrawal
It is not allowed to withdraw from this subject after the registration deadline.Remark
MA1 only. Special schedule: see the FE websiteSummary
The objective of the course is to provide participants with financial accounting mechanisms for understanding the financial statements of a company.Content
- The main financial statements
- Basic accounting concepts, techniques and corporate annual reports
- Financial statements analysis
Keywords
Financial accounting, Financial statements analysis
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:- Explain major accounting concepts
- Analyze the financial statements of a company
- Interpret major accounting documents
- Assess / Evaluate the impact of a decision on the financial statements of a company
- Justify the difference between cash-flows and equity of a company
Transversal skills
- Communicate effectively with professionals from other disciplines.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions/case studies.
Expected student activities
Class attendance, exercises and cases
Assessment methods
- 30% Case study
- 20% (1) Financial analysis of a company (group work)
- 50% Final written exam (closed book)
(1) Each group (5 students maximum) chooses a company and makes a financial analysis based on the main concepts and methods learnt during the course. Then during the last (or the two last) lecture, each group presents his analysis (10 minutes).
Resources
Bibliography
Weetman Pauline, Financial and Management Accounting. An Introduction, Fourth Edition, FT, Prentice Hall, 2006.
Williams, Haka, Bettner. Financial and Managerial Accounting. 2005.
Ressources en bibliothèque
In the programs
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Accounting for finance - Number of places
100 - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Accounting for finance - Number of places
100 - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Accounting for finance - Number of places
100 - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Accounting for finance - Number of places
100 - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Accounting for finance - Number of places
100 - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterFall
- Exam formWritten
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Accounting for finance - Number of places
100 - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester
Reference week
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- Autumn semester
- Winter sessions
- Spring semester
- Summer sessions
- Lecture in French
- Lecture in English
- Lecture in German