Course curriculum

  • 1
    ACCOUNTING FOUNDATIONS
    • 1. What is Accounting
    • 2. The Importance of Bookkeeping
    • 3. An Introduction to Financial Accounting
    • 4. The different types of accounting standards
    • 5. The three financial statements
    • 6. Types of revenues
    • 7. Types of expenses
    • 8. Income taxes
    • 9. Depreciation and Amortization
    • 10. Types of assets
    • 11. Types of liabilities
    • 12. Equity
    • 13. Accrual accounting
    • 14. The importance of timing when recognizing revenues
    • 15. Revenue recognition criteria
    • 16. Cost recognition principles
    • 17. Technical aspects of cost recognition
    • 18. The two types of Income Statement formats
    • 19. The Revenue Recognition Principle
    • 20. The Expense Recognition Principle
    • 21. Historical Cost vs. Fair Value Accounting
    • 22. The Accounting Equation
    • 23. Accounting System General Ledger
    • 24. T-Accounts, Understand Debits and Credits
    • 25. P and L T-Accounts
    • 26. Calculate Depreciation Expense
    • 27. Understand if a business makes or burns cash
    • 28. The three parts of Cash Flow statements
    • 29. Cash Flow computations (The Direct method)
    • 30. Cash Flow computations (The Indirect method)
    • 31. Cash Flow in practice
    • 31. Cash-Flow.xlsx
  • 2
    FINANCIAL MODELING
    • 1. What is a financial model
    • 2. Why use a financial model
    • 3. Inefficient financial modeling practices
    • 4. Efficient financial modeling practices
    • 5. Different types of financial models we can build
    • 6. The right level of detail
    • 7. The right way to approach the forecasting
    • 8. Building financial models
    • 9. Forecasting P and L items
    • 10. Forecasting Balance sheet items
    • 11. Forecasting PP&E, Financial Liabilities, etc
  • 3
    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
    • 1. The three main statements
    • 2. The ingredients of the P and L statement
    • 3. The building blocks of the Balance Sheet
    • 4. What is a 10-K Report and Why Is It important for Investors
    • 5. What is the Role of Auditing Firms
    • 6. Indispensable Tools for Financial Statement Analysis
    • 7. A Continuation of Financial Accounting
    • 8. First Steps in Financial Statement Analysis
    • 9. Horizontal vs. Vertical Financial Statement Analysis
    • 10. Days Payable (DPO), Days Receivable (DSO) and Days Inventory (DIO)
    • 11. Assess Business Performance
  • 4
    CAPITAL MARKET
    • 1. Capital Market, going public
    • 2. Who are the investors in an IPO
    • 3. Share price
    • 4. IPO timetable
    • 5. The IPO syndicate
    • 6. Allocating shares to investors
    • 7. Other ways to place equity capital
    • 8. The four different types of bonds
    • 9. The mechanics of a bond offering
    • 10. What is securitization and why can it be useful
    • 11. Loan Syndication
  • 5
    WORKING CAPITAL
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The importance of working capital
    • 3. Overtrading vs. excessive investment
    • 4. Trade receivables management
    • 5. Re-order level
    • 6. Economic order quantity (EOQ)
    • 7. Inventory optimization techniques
    • 8. Trade payables management
    • 9. Working capital optimization
    • 10. Inefficient working capital
  • 6
    COMPANY VALUATION
    • 1. Why value a company
    • 2. How much is a company worth
    • 3. The two variables that drive a firm’s value
    • 4. The mechanism of Unlevered Cash Flow Calculation
    • 5. Introducing a discount factor
    • 6. Calculating a firm's cost of debt
    • 7. Calculating a firm’s cost of equity
    • 8. Estimating a company’s future cash flows
    • 9. The two stages of a DCF model
    • 10. Discounting cash flows and terminal value
    • 11. Calculating Enterprise and Equity value
  • 7
    ADVANCED ACCOUNTING
    • 1. Pay attention to trade receivables
    • 2. What if clients do not pay on time
    • 3. Collecting trade receivables sooner
    • 4. The different types of Inventory we can have
    • 5. The Cost of Goods Sold and Inventory
    • 6. Cost flow methods
    • 7. The different types of fixed assets
    • 8. Capitalizing interest expenses
    • 9. Fair value accounting
    • 10. Assets with finite life vs. assets with infinite life
    • 11. The revaluation model
    • 12. internal Intangible assets
    • 13. How we account for trade payables
    • 14. Accounts payable VS notes payable
    • 15. e-invoicing
    • 16. Debt Vs equity
    • 17. Amortizing a loan
    • 18. Debt covenants
    • 19. The reason companies lease assets
    • 20. Solving a leasing exercise
    • 21. Why companies use financial leverage
    • 22. The implications of using excessive leverage
    • EVALUATION