On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: A fundamental understanding of financial and managerial accounting concepts and principles to inform your business decision-making. The ability to analyse income statements, balance sheets and market information, and communicate the results to stakeholders. Insights into the costs, efficiencies, and profits of a company, and the tools for creating a sustainable culture of improved performance. The capacity to recommend and delegate decision-making authority to foster personal and team responsibility among employees. The skills to design incentive, monitoring, and feedback systems to drive performance and meet organisational targets.
Financial Analysis and Management Accounting
London School of Economics and Political Science via GetSmarter
Overview
Create a comprehensive toolkit in financial and managerial accounting to enhance performance and optimise internal efficiency.
On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: A fundamental understanding of financial and managerial accounting concepts and principles to inform your business decision-making. The ability to analyse income statements, balance sheets and market information, and communicate the results to stakeholders. Insights into the costs, efficiencies, and profits of a company, and the tools for creating a sustainable culture of improved performance. The capacity to recommend and delegate decision-making authority to foster personal and team responsibility among employees. The skills to design incentive, monitoring, and feedback systems to drive performance and meet organisational targets.
On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with: A fundamental understanding of financial and managerial accounting concepts and principles to inform your business decision-making. The ability to analyse income statements, balance sheets and market information, and communicate the results to stakeholders. Insights into the costs, efficiencies, and profits of a company, and the tools for creating a sustainable culture of improved performance. The capacity to recommend and delegate decision-making authority to foster personal and team responsibility among employees. The skills to design incentive, monitoring, and feedback systems to drive performance and meet organisational targets.
Syllabus
- Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
- Module 1: The building blocks of financial reporting
- Module 2: Financial performance assessment: The income statement
- Module 3: Financial position and capital structure: The balance sheet
- Module 4: Financial statement analysis
- Module 5: Management accounting concepts and principles
- Module 6: Delegation and control
- Module 7: Measuring and incentivising profitability
- Module 8: Incentives, monitoring, and feedback to drive results
Taught by
Dr Saipriya Kamath, Dr Kenneth Lee, and Henry Eyring