Commerce 201.3 (96)

Title: Introduction to Financial Accounting

Term: 2 (3 lecture hours)

Lecture

Time: Wednesday 7 pm - 9:50 pm

Course Information

Description:

Helps the student understand, use and appreciate the limitations of information provided in an organization's financial statements. As such, the course examines what financial statements are, what they include and the means of deriving information for and from them. Specifically, the course will enable the student to: (1) link the results of management's financing, investing and operating decisions to financial statement reporting; (2) understand the boundaries and limitations of information in the financial statements; (3) demonstrate a basic but real awareness of financial accounting systems; and (4) use information in financial statements to help make various decisions about an organization.

Note:

Student can receive credit for only one of COMM 201.3 or ENT 230.3