Introduction to Accounting and Finance

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This course will be a combination of financial accounting and finance. The first third of the course will cover the basics surrounding financial reporting for publicly-listed firms, including the regulatory environment, the balance sheet, the income statement, the statement of cash flows and basic rules on what is included (and excluded) from these statements. The second third of the course will concentrate on basic finance topics, including present value, efficient capital markets, investment strategies, risk-return tradeoffs of investing, and different type of markets. The third part of the course will combine accounting with finance topics - debt instruments, equity instruments, merger and acquisitions, purchase of other securities, and some financial statement analyses will be explored in this section from both finance and accounting points of view.