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Finance and Accounting Tips

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In this series, accounting professors Jim and Kay Stice break down essential accounting and finance concepts into bite-sized chunks that are easy to understand.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction to the weekly series
1. Finance & Accounting Tips
  • Overview of the balance sheet
  • Limitations of the balance sheet
  • Accrual accounting
  • Income statement
  • How to common-size the income statement
  • Financial statement ratios
  • The DuPont framework and return on equity
  • Debits and credits
  • Understand a company's operating cycle
  • How to compute days' purchases in payables
  • The current ratio and liquidity
  • Leverage ratios
  • When to capitalize or expense costs
  • Timing of revenue recognition
  • The statement of cash flows
  • Earnings management
  • What is depreciation?
  • Forecasting financial statements
  • Dividends and stock buybacks
  • Loan payments: Understand interest and principal
  • Price maker or price taker and the impact of overhead costs
  • Activity-based costing (ABC) and overhead
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis
  • Contribution margin and the sales mix of products
  • Save early, save often
  • Take the 401(k) match
  • Making extra payments
  • Low introductory interest rates
  • LIFO, FIFO, and FISH
  • Different depreciation methods
  • Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
  • Sarbanes-Oxley and internal controls
  • What is a derivative?
  • Accounting for gift cards
  • What is beta?
  • What is an IPO?
  • Components of a compensation package
  • Impairment
  • Earnings per share
  • Calculate a car payment
  • Deferred taxes
  • Foreign currency transactions
  • What do auditors do?
  • Steps in creating a personal budget
  • Pensions
  • Obtaining financial information
  • Internal controls
  • Standards and variances
  • What is corporate governance?

Taught by

Jim Stice and Earl Stice

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