Title: Financial accounting and capital markets

Location: US

Company: University of Cambridge

About this course:
This five week course focuses on financial accounting, capital markets, and the relationships between them.

Cash flow versus profit; Accruals and accruals accounting

Capitalisation, Depreciation, Amortisation and Revaluation

Financial modelling and Financial sensitivities

Debt capital markets and Loan markets

Equity capital markets and Private equity

With case studies, mini-quizzes, as well as clear expert lectures this course enables you to apply terms and techniques that have been explained to ensure that the learning makes sense in the real world. Skills learned can be put to use when making strategic decisions, or simply understanding financial modelling for projects or the wider business.

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

Apply and explain accruals and accruals accounting

Model and explain financial sensitivities

Appreciate the role of markets, and our place in them

Understand and apply sustainable finance

Integrate your learning and identify your next steps

An organisation’s sustainable cash flows and its accounting profits (or losses) are both supremely important, but they can be very different. Explore the differences between debt and share capital, fact and judgement in financial reporting and financial markets, and understand and apply terms such as capitalisation, depreciation, amortisation and revaluation.

Duration: 5 weeks

Skills:
- Accounting
- Accruals
- Capital Markets
- Cash Flows
- Depreciation
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Market
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Statements
- Loans
- Share Capital
- Strategic Decision Making

Curriculum:
- Apply and explain accruals and accruals accounting
- Model and explain financial sensitivities
- Appreciate the role of markets, and our place in them
- Understand and apply sustainable finance

- Integrate your learning and identify your next steps