Online Course – Google Certified Professional Specialization in Financial Reporting, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Learn the fundamentals of financial accounting to create and analyze an organization’s financial statements. Courses in financial reporting and financial statement analysis.

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Use financial accounting principles to create and/or process an organization’s financial statements.
  • Analyze financial statements to assess the financial condition of the organization.

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Accountant
  • Financial Analyst
  • Finance Manager
  • Financial advisor
  • bookkeeper
  • Salary checker
  • Financial Operations Manager
  • Financial Reporting Manager
  • Financial Risk Manager
  • Investment Manager

Internship – 5-part course series

The Financial Reporting specialization focuses on the role of financial accounting process principles in the creation and reporting of an organization’s financial statements. Learners who complete this specialization will be able to:

  • Use financial accounting principles to create and/or process an organization’s financial statements.
  • Analyze financial statements to assess the financial condition of the organization.

Hands-on Learning Project

The internship includes several projects and practice activities, including analyses of reports and cases, which will be reviewed by peers. In addition, the internship includes one final course, which includes a full analysis of the financial statements of a real company.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Accounting Analysis I: The Role of Accounting as an Information System

Course 1
28 hours
4.8 (662 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Analysis of the structure, conceptual framework, and accounting environment
  • Apply the three steps involved in financial accounting (identification, measurement, and reporting) to practical scenarios
  • Evaluate the accounting processing cycle and its role in creating financial statements
  • Critically review key financial statements and assess their significance for external decision makers

Skills you will acquire

  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial statements
  • The time value of money
  • Revenue recognition
  • Accounting cycle

Accounting Analysis I: Measurement and Reporting of Assets

Course 2
21 hours
4.8 (180 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Making informed decisions and assessments regarding financial statements and the overall health of the organization
  • Measuring and reporting issues related to inventory, long-lived assets, and PP&E
  • Identifying and recording debt and equity investments
  • Determining appropriate classification, measurement and reporting of major asset categories

Skills you will acquire

  • Accrued liabilities
  • Financial Accounting
  • Pension accounting
  • Leasing Accounting

Accounting Analysis II: Measuring and Reporting Liabilities

Course 3
33 hours
4.6 (117 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Describe the accounting process related to the recognition of liabilities (from the origination of transactions to reporting in the financial statements)
  • Describe future liabilities and commitments and demonstrate the accounting treatment to be reported, including required reporting.
  • Present the conduct regarding bonds (including fixed-value bonds, discount bonds, and premium bonds)
  • Explain and demonstrate accounting for pension plans

Skills you will acquire

  • Financial Accounting
  • Earnings per share
  • income tax
  • Diluted earnings per share
  • Cash flow

Accounting Analysis II: Accounting for Liabilities and Equity

Course 4
47 hours
4.7 (95 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Explain and demonstrate accounting for income tax.
  • Describe the components of shareholders’ equity and explain how they are reported in the statement of shareholders’ equity.
  • Explain and apply the accounting for stock options and restricted stock
  • Explain the purpose of earnings per share analysis and calculate basic and diluted earnings per share.

Skills you will acquire

  • Financial Accounting
  • Earnings per share
  • income tax
  • Diluted earnings per share
  • Cash flow

Final Project in Financial Reporting

Course 5
20 hours
3.6 (37 ratings)

What will you learn?

The project is the final project of the Financial Reporting specialization. You will have the opportunity to integrate the concepts and techniques you have acquired in all courses in this specialization and apply them to a real-world accounting project. The final project will last 3 weeks. The final project must be taken after completion of all courses in this specialization.

Skills you will acquire

  • Financial statement analysis
  • Property valuation
  • Accounting standards and principles

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