Foundations of Finance and Accounting

About the Course

Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit’s profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization’s growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.

Course Learning Objectives

• Explain the importance of finance and interpretation of financial information
• Apply the concepts of accounting and finance to analyze financials
• Learn about key accounting and finance terms
• Examine financial statements by using key ratios
• Explain the importance of budgeting process
• Learn about key components needed to improve profitability

Course Format

There are four modules in this course. Each module has a corresponding quiz. You are allowed one try for each quiz every eight hours and you need to achieve an 80% or higher on all quizzes in order to pass the class. You may take the quizzes as many times as you like.

Recommended Background

This course will appeal to a wide range of audiences. There are no course prerequisites; no previous business experience is necessary.

Course Certificate Criteria

Course Certificates are co-branded by UCLITE and University of California, Irvine. They are printable, digitally shareable, and will empower you with a verified document in-hand. Link your coursework to your identity, and pass every module to earn your Course Certificate.