Master

In Maynard (USA)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Maynard (USA)

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant). This course is restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.

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Maynard (USA)
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Subjects

  • Financial Training
  • Financial
  • Economics
  • Financial Accounting

Course programme

Lectures: 4 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session


Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session


Text: Stickney, Clyde P., and Roman L. Weil. Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses. 10th ed. Thomson South-Western, 2003. ISBN: 0324183518.


The objective of the course is to introduce the language of business and to train you in the analysis of financial statements. Accounting attempts to measure and report corporate performance. Users demand the performance measure in a variety of decisions they make. For example,


In making all of these decisions, an interdisciplinary understanding of the entire business is necessary. Toward this end, the course also introduces concepts from finance and economics (e.g., cash flow discounting, risk, valuation, and criteria for choosing among alternative investments) throughout the course, which will enable students to place accounting in the context of a business.


The Teaching Instructors are important members of the teaching team and are committed to helping the class reach the course objectives. They hold the accounting recitation sessions and are available during office hours for one-on-one help. They grade the written assignments and exams.


A student's grade will be based on the following weights:


See the last column of the calendar for important details of each day's plan. Problem sets must be submitted before the start of the class of the due date. Problem set can be done individually or in study groups. The "Do" problems will help you prepare for class. They do not have to be submitted.


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Financial accounting

Price on request