MBA Accounting

This course develops and illustrates a set of tools needed to provide accounting and related functions for private, entrepreneurial firms. The class will follow the life-cycle of a business that originates as a startup and will cover the accounting-related financial metrics and tools that are needed by an entrepreneur.

This course focuses on the use of financial accounting to express the economic realities of complex organizations, as well as the deal structures and transactions that shape the design of these organizations. To this end, students examine the accounting, economic, and regulatory aspects of a variety of different transaction types.

This course provides an introduction to financial statements and the financial reporting process from a user's perspective. The course focuses on fundamental accounting concepts and principles, and students will learn how the economic transactions of a firm are reported in the financial statements and related disclosures.

This course provides you with a framework to understand and use the cost and accounting information you will encounter in careers in consulting, operations, marketing, or general management. The course covers the vocabulary and mechanics of cost accounting, basic issues involved in the design of managerial accounting systems, and the role of managerial accounting for resource allocation and performance evaluation.

This course looks at the firm's accounting policy for a particular type of transaction and determines how that policy choice affects its primary financial statements. You will learn how to question whether these effects fairly reflect the underlying economics of the firm's transactions using the lenses of accounting, economics, finance, and strategy. The goal is to improve your ability to use accounting numbers to assess the firm's strategy and the potential rewards and risks of dealing with the firm.

Investment bankers, financial executives, and consultants who want to have a competitive advantage by understanding how taxes impact the structure and value of deals, as well as managers and analysts who need to understand how firms strategically respond to tax incentives, will find this course useful. You will learn to integrate concepts from finance, economics, and accounting to achieve a more complete understanding of the role of taxes in business strategy.

Explore a financial analysis framework that provides links among a firm's business, its financial statements and associated disclosures for the purpose of forecasting and corporate valuation. The perspective taken is that of an external stakeholder relying on publicly available information for decision-making purposes. The course provides the tools necessary to analyze financial statements and perform corporate valuation. It is applied in nature and stresses the use of actual financial statements. 

The course is designed for students who already have a basic familiarity with corporate valuation and DCF analysis as well as solid accounting knowledge. We cover financial analysis of different business models, specific situations (e.g., cyclicals, young growth companies, closely held firms), as well as the analysis and valuation of foreign companies (e.g., emerging markets, reporting under IFRS). Capital markets have become increasingly global, but evaluating global investments and M&A poses unique challenges for financial analysis.