ILRHR 8106 - Understanding Financial Statements

Summer. 0.5 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: students enrolled in the Executive Master of Human Resource Management. Offered online only.

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Every company’s finance department keeps detailed records of the daily transactions involved in the running the organization. Periodically, they create reports that allow management, stakeholders and regulating authorities to have insight into the financial health of the firm. This course will develops the skills needed to understand both the metrics that are reported in income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, and how they relate to each other. You will also learn how comparing numbers across your company and the industry from year to year can help you assess the overall financial performance of the firm.