NBA 5000 - Intermediate Accounting

(crosslisted) LAW 6560

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: NCC 5000 or equivalent.

E. Yeung.

This course is relevant to a general business career, but is particularly relevant to careers that involve the use of financial statements. The specific accounting topics covered includes: Statement of Cash Flows; Income Taxes; Divestitures; Revenue Recognition; Financial Investments; Leases; Pensions; Equity-based Compensation; EPS; Goodwill. My objective is to enable you to become more knowledgeable, skeptical consumers of financial information. This objective will be achieved by a combination of lectures and analyzing and discussing articles from the financial press and cases that are based on actual financial statements.