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Introduction to Financial Accounting
Coursera
3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 3 years, 2015–2023 · score 2.8
A Coursera course introducing financial accounting, taught by Wharton's Brian J. Bushee, covering how to read and understand financial statements. Commenters note it was once one course that has since been split into two parts.
Commenters call it an excellent, very helpful introduction for learning to read earnings statements, and one praises it as the best teaching they've seen in a MOOC.
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The best teaching I've seen in a MOOC is in Introduction to Financial Accounting / More Introduction to Financial Accounting by Brian J Bushee on Coursera. (This used to be one course back when I took it.)
The subject matter is probably not that interesting to most hackers but it is a great example of making the MOOC-format work.
Exactly. Parent's comment is only meaningful if you completely ignore paying workers which seems pretty relevant if you're going to be talking about layoffs.
I've found a lot of tech workers (including myself) really need to learn how to read an earnings statement. Coursera has an excellent Intro to Financial account course [0] that I've found very helpful in understanding what's really happening at these places.
0. https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting
I've recommended and have had good feedback on the Coursera course Introduction to Financial Accounting.