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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 15.514 (Summer 2003) 
  • Course Title:
  • Financial and Managerial Accounting 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Sloan School of Management 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. George Plesko 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 15.514 Financial and Managerial Accounting



    Summer 2003




    Course Highlights


    Helping students achieve the five course challenges is a thorough set of lecture notes, complemented by class overviews and necessary handouts. A complete quiz and midterm exam are also available, with solutions.


    Course Description


    15.514 is an intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information for investors (external users) and managers (internal users) and to the use of financial instruments to support system and project creation. The course adopts a decision-maker perspective on accounting and finance with the goal of helping students develop a framework for understanding financial, managerial, and tax reports. 15.514 is restricted to System Design and Management students.



    Acknowledgements


    Acknowledgement is hereby given to Professor G. Peter Wilson for his authorship of the following content in this course:

    • The Five Challenges (see Syllabus and Lecture 1)
    • "What Do Intel and Accountants Have in Common?" (see Lecture 1)
    • A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting (see Lecture 1)


    Technical Requirements


    Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .xls.


    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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