Description: An intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information. Adopts a decision-maker perspective of accounting by emphasizing the relation between accounting data and the underlying economic events generating them. Class sessions are a mixture of lecture and case discussion. Assignments include textbook problems, analysis of financial statements, and cases. Restricted to first-year MIT Sloan Master's students.
Course #: 15.515
Professor(s) who recently taught this course:
Joseph Weber
Sugata Roychowdhury
Rodrigo Verdi