Financial Accounting (Management)
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Description
Prerequisites
Students are only expected to know already the basic terminology of companies’ management and performance.
Objectives
The main objective of this course is to develop participants’ skills in preparing and reading financial statements, also to understand the company’s performance.
Program
- Course presentation: Financial Accounting – Introductory Notes, Double entry bookkeeping, Balance sheet and income statement formats
- Companies’ start up: Purchases and sales, Employees’ compensation
- Investments in fixed assets: Cases and exercises
- Financing transactions: Cases and exercises
- Adjusting and closing entries – The preparation of financial statements. Cases and exercises
- Review session: Presentation of financial statements according to IAS/IFRS.
- Review session
Learning Method
Face-to-face lectures, Exercises, Case studies/Incidents
Exam Style
Written exam at the end of the course. Students are allowed to use calculators, but the exam is “closed books” (no additional material is permitted).
Requested Material
No material is requested, except for the calculator.
The teaching material will be handed-out by the instructor through the web-learning (www.icorsi.ch). Such material includes the original text of some accounting standards, teaching notes, slides, case-studies and exercises.
Readings/Textbooks
P. Tettamanzi, G. Blandano, S. Goodman, (edited by), “Basic Accounting”, WoltersKluwer, Milano, 2014 (https://shop.wki.it/ebook/ebook-basic-accounting-s511611/).
Education
- Master of Science in Economics in Management, Core course, Conoscenze di base (Management stream), 1st year
- Master of Science in Management and Informatics, Informatics track, 1st year
