Courses Bachelor Display 2024-2025

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Course title Accounting and Financial Reporting
Course code EBC1039
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
2 28-10-2024 15-12-2024 L X X
Level Introductory
Coordinator Dimitris Kanelis
For more information: dimitris.kanelis@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
* Learn how to prepare financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement) at an introductory level using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
* Understand how managerial judgement plays a role in selecting accounting methods and measurement.
* Learn how to analyze and interpret financial statements.
* Understand how managerial incentives, managerial judgement, auditing and corporate governance affect the quality of financial statements.
Description
The aim of this course is to introduce financial accounting and reporting. Students will learn how to record business transactions and draw up financial statements (balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement). Understanding the basic principles underlying ‘the language of business’ is essential to anyone who will be involved in the preparation (e.g., controllers), monitoring (e.g., supervisory board members, auditors, stock market regulators), analysis (e.g., financial analysts, M&A consultants), or use (e.g., venture capitalists, governments, private shareholders, bondholders) of financial accounting information. The course also addresses other factors (such as accounting regulation, auditing, corporate governance and managerial incentives and judgement) that affect the preparation and use of financial statements as well as techniques for analyzing financial statements.
Literature
Weygandt, Kimmel, and Kieso (2019) Financial Accounting with International Financial Reporting Standards, 4th edition, Wiley.
Prerequisites
The course EBC1039 is in transition for the bachelor Fiscal Economics. This does NOT affect EBC1037 and EBC1038.
See the Bachelor Education and Examination Regulations for more information.

The following rule applies to bachelor Fiscal Economics students.
TRANSITIONAL REGULATION (EBC1039):
The bachelor Fiscal Economics has been discontinued.

There will be repeat education for year 1 and year 2 courses up to and including academic year 2025-2026 and exam-only up to and including academic year 2026-2027. For year 3 courses there will be repeat education up to and including 2026-2027 and exam-only up to and including academic year 2027-2028.

Whether a course is in transition, cancelled, or replaced may depend on the cohort you are in. Sometimes there are additional criteria. It is therefore very important to carefully read the EER and the addendum so you can apply the rules to your individual situation.


PREREQUISITES:
* An advanced level of English.
* No specific required knowledge requested.
Keywords
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Lecture
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Participation / Written Exam
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor Fiscal Economics Transitional Regulation