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Accounting and Financial Analysis programme

Accounting and Financial Analysis provides an in-depth understanding of how to read financial statements and how to become a skilled user of accounting information.

A key element of the programme is how to assess a business's financial strength and the adequacy of its assets and cash flow to meet its liabilities. It also provides you with a firm grounding in the issues surrounding corporate governance.

Learn about the main sources of diversity and creativity in accounting practice and how to control for this when comparing and analysing companies.

You will also be able to use financial statements to measure the return that a business is earning on its investors' capital, and understand how to analyse the financial statements to reveal the performance of the business.

Key topics include:

• Financial statements and accounting standards
• Modern financial analysis techniques
• Revenue recognition and expense matching
• Assets and liabilities recognition.

On completion, you will be able to:

• Use financial statements to evaluate a company's performance
• Assess a company's ability to meet its liabilities
• Understand the impact of accounting standards and regulatory frameworks
• Understand major governance issues

You will have the opportunity to use real-life business case studies to apply key concepts introduced in lectures. Group work and discussions will reinforce your learning, and great emphasis is placed on class participation.

Because these programmes attract experienced, diverse and motivated business professionals from around the world, you gain inspiring international perspectives on accounting and financial analysis.

Accounting and Financial Analysis is offered in both day and evening formats and share the same curriculum.

The day format is an intensive learning experience with the programme running over five consecutive days. Work continues from morning to evening to enable you to benefit from maximum learning.

The evening format is held every Wednesday evening for 10 weeks so you may study without disruption to your work life. While the evening format requires less hours on campus, participants spend a significant proportion of their time outside of this for preparation and reflection of programme material.

The Accounting and Financial Analysis programme forms part of a three-programme sequence including Valuation; and Funding, Risk and Restructuring, which can be taken individually or in any combination. Completion of all three programmes means you gain access to the School's global alumni community.

Programme dates

19 - 23 August 2013 (daytime format)
02 October - 04 December 2013 (evening format)
January - February 2014 (daytime format) Date TBC

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