Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting

2020/2021

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Магистерская программа "Международный бизнес", направление подготовки "Менеджмент"

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1, 2 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Course develops background for understanding and reading companies’ financial reports and assessing company’s financial position and making managerial decisions. The Course covers basic concepts of modern financial reporting and techniques of management accounting. It provides basic knowledge in preparing, processing and interpreting the data about business transactions for different types of external as well as internal investors, management and other accounting information users. The Course consists of lectures, seminars, case studies and self-study. It is a three-months course designed to prepare students for the “International Corporate Finance” course

Learning Objectives

• developing skills required for preparing and analyzing companies’ financial statements and data for decision-making purposes
• be able to apply a set of accounting concepts to understand annual financial reports of different corporations and calculate financial ratios to assess finance position
• be able to apply managerial accounting analytical tools for internal control, pricing and developing different budgets for financial planning purposes as well as to get essential skills in capital budgeting techniques

Expected Learning Outcomes

• learning about the conceptual basis of accounting, the basic accounting rules for recording business operations, assets and liabilities, the methodology of preparing accounting reports, and the requirements for their contents
• developing skills required for preparing and analyzing companies’ financial statements
• get essential skills in capital budgeting techniques
• learning the basic accounting rules for recording business operations
• the methodology of preparing accounting reports and financial statements
• learn to do a ratio analysis
• know about the goals and tasks of managerial accounting
• learn to monitor budget fulfillment
• be able to make management decisions
• be able to calculate profitability ratios and do investment analysis
• learn about the costing methods

Course Contents

• The nature and purpose of accounting
• Recording business transactions
• Preparing financial statements
• Analysis of financial statements. Vertical and horizontal analysis
• Ratio analysis
• Profitability ratios. Investment analysis
• The goals and tasks of managerial accounting
• Classifying costs. Costing methods
• Making management decisions
• Budgeting
• Monitoring budget fulfillment, flexible budgeting

Assessment Elements

• Exam
• intermediate test
• Home assignment
• Home assignment
• Class attendance

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (2 module)
  0.04 * Class attendance + 0.6 * Exam + 0.08 * Home assignment + 0.08 * Home assignment + 0.2 * intermediate test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Accounting : understanding and practice, Leiwy, D., 2013
• Accounting and finance : reader for the 3rd-year students, , 2004
• Weygandt, J. J., Kieso, D. E., & Kimmel, P. D. (2017). Financial Accounting (Vol. Tenth edition). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1639274

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Cost accounting : a managerial emphasis, Horngren, C. T., 2015
• Harrison, W. T., & Horngren, C. T. (2012). Financial accounting. Slovenia, Europe: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.364C5584