Free University Accounting Courses and College Classes

Free university accounting courses and college classes: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Kutztown, University of Alaska, Gresham College, University of California, Open University.

Influences on accounting regulation
This unit examines how national practices for financial reporting have evolved and why different rules are in place within different jurisdications. In times past, imperialism and war have both been responsible...Open University of the UK

Economics
The Introductory Economics course is a collection of online experiments and related online workbooks which can be used by individual learners or to supplement an instructor lead course. Carnegie Mellon University

Investment risk
A fair return on investment is defined as one that compensates the investor for the risk incurred in making the investment – neither more nor less. Conversely, an excess return is one that over-compensates...Open University of the UK

Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting
This course studies basic concepts of financial and managerial reporting. The viewpoint is that of readers of financial and managerial reports rather than the accountants who prepare them. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Introduction to the context of accounting
Through a series of activities and practical examples, this unit provides a broad overview of the field of accounting, including: its origins and objectives, the nature of accounting information and accounting...Open University of the UK

Accounting 101
ACCOUNTING 101 Take command of a bookstore and coffee bar and see how money moves in and out of a business learning the fundamentals of accounting at the same time. This course provides an in-depth look at each of the primary accounting transactions used in a business demonstrating how "the language of business" works. Without using any accounting jargon to begin with, the course demonstrates how to keep score in a business through a simple scorecard approach. When you are finished, you are shown that each of your scorecards represents one of the three primary financial statements used in managing a business. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Financial Accounting
This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant). This course is restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Accounting 201: Principles of Financial Accounting
Accounting is frequently referred to as "the language of business." ACCT 201 is a course designed to teach you how to converse in this language. The catalog description of the course is as follows: "Introduction to financial accounting concepts and principles. Emphasis on the accounting cycle, recording and summarizing accounting data through the presentation of formal financial statements." University of Alaska - College of Business and Public Policy

A single global financial market
In bull markets all you ever hear about are new trends. Part of the addiction that drives investors to scramble for even more stock at the very top, is the idea, ever present during a bull market, that the world is on the edge of dramatic new trends. History seems speeded up and everywhere you are told if you don’t follow the latest trends you are likely to fall off. In the subsequent bear market, it is not surprising that betrayed investors view talk of trends with much suspicion. But some trends do cut through the cycle of fear and greed. One of them is the consolidation of financial markets in general and equity exchanges in particular. Gresham College

Taxes and Business Strategy
Traditional finance and other business courses analyze a broad spectrum of factors affecting business decision-making but typically give little systematic consideration to the role of taxes. In contrast, traditional tax accounting courses concentrate on administrative issues while ignoring the richness of the context in which tax factors operate. The objective of the course is to bridge this gap by providing a framework for recognizing tax planning opportunities and applying basic principles of tax strategy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Financial Institutions, Regulation and Compliance
The basic functions of a financial institution fall into four categories: risk transference, investment and trading on own account, distribution/ broking, and money transfer. Each class involves risk, to a greater or lesser degree, and it is principally the central theme of risk management that, I contend, sets financial institutions apart. It is also in many cases, and particularly in larger entities, their complexity and depth, accompanied by risks of comparable complexity at every level throughout an often diverse and sophisticated organisation. Gresham College

Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning Course
This course was produced by a generous grant from the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards and by the Distance Learning Center at the University of California, Irvine, under the OpenCourseWare Initiative. The purpose is to make a course which is designed to provide a comprehensive but easily understood overview of personal financial planning widely available to the general public. This course is not intended to replace the professional financial planner, but to help to make the general public better consumers of financial planning advice. The course was created to help those who cannot afford extensive planning assistance better understand how to define and reach their financial goals. It provides basic understanding so informed decisions can be made. The course can also be seen as a reference for individual topics that are part of personal financial planning. University of California- Irvine