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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Financial Accounting Fundamentals by University of Virginia

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About the Course

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, will teach you the tools you'll need to understand the fundamentals of financial accounting. Concise videos, the financial records of a small business, and "your turn" activities guide you through the three most commonly used financial statements: the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Statement of Cash Flows. Beyond recording transactions, you'll learn how to prepare these financial statements, and read and analyze them to draw basic conclusions about a company's financial health. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Use journal entries to record transactions - Prepare and use t-accounts to summarize transactions recorded during an accounting period - Describe the three most commonly used financial statements and how they fit together - Prepare these financial statements based on transactions recorded during an accounting period - Draw basic conclusions about a company's financial health...

Top reviews

LB

Oct 1, 2020

This is a great course with very helpful instruction. The course provides a lot of opportunities for hands-on work to apply the concepts and solidify one’s understanding of the topics.

JT

Jun 24, 2020

Some transactions need more clarifications. Such as cash flow statement transaction was a little bit complicated to understand. But generally, this course is pretty good for beginners

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By Phat P

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Oct 2, 2019

This course is great! I learned a lot in accounting and how to read financial, cash flow statement. Recommend!

By Theresa K H

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Jun 22, 2020

Well laid out with lots of practice activities and smooth progression up the ladder of intensity of concepts.

By aziz a

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Sep 9, 2023

I would like to highly appreciate our professor. She is an extraordinary professional in providing lectures.

By BEATRICE L

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Jan 15, 2021

I enjoyed the course. The Tutor was Superb. It has improved my financial Accounting knowledge. Thank you.

By Muftau A I

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Aug 16, 2020

Its a good course to take in understanding the fundamentals and necessary skills about Financial Accounting.

By Tess D

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Jun 20, 2020

A great, and informative intro to accounting! Luann was enjoyable to watch, and explained things thoroughly!

By abdelfattah g a m h

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Dec 22, 2017

Thank you to everyone for their great effort. Thank you to Proveser Luan for a simple and smooth explanation

By Farhan A

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May 18, 2025

This course really helped me a lot in understanding basics of Accounting and helped me build a strong base.

By Erdi A

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Jun 4, 2020

The course teaches you all it promises. Its explained so well everyone can learn its information. Good job.

By Vinyard C

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Feb 8, 2020

Very helpful, easy to understand. Thanks to this course I passed the final Accounting exam in my university

By Daniela D P

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Apr 18, 2021

Very informative and explained (and presented) in such a way that it is easily learned and understandable.

By Ashfia R

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Jul 19, 2020

It was an amazing course to start with as it includes and briefs about all the fundamentals of accounting!

By Eugene H

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Jun 25, 2019

It was a great course and I learned so much! The videos were very detailed and it was easy to take notes.

By Ryan H

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Sep 15, 2024

Loved this course; Luann is a great instructor. Hoping my next course is taught as well as this one was!

By Rahadian N M

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Feb 16, 2023

Amazing course! My background is not from finance but the explanation is clear and comprehensive! KUDOS!

By Floribel O

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Jun 5, 2022

Very informative yet easy to understand for those who are just starting out in their accounting journey.

By Jika S

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Sep 5, 2017

very satisfied, took me longer to understand then I expected but it worth it. Thank you much, Professor!

By ABDULLAH O

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Feb 20, 2022

I didn't expect to find all this benefit in these few weeks I am happy to finish this course Thank You

By Lanneken D

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May 30, 2020

The professor is really excellent at explaining accounting concepts, and she's funny too in a nerdy way

By Tan W Q

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May 6, 2020

Fantastic course, I learnt so much. Good for absolute beginners like me. Thanks prof! Really enjoyed it

By DIEGO F R O

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Apr 1, 2021

Excelente para tener un contexto claro antes de valuar una compaƱia desde el punto de vista financiero

By Angel E N A

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Jun 22, 2020

Really good material and explanation of elaborate concepts. I liked Professor Lynch's way of teaching.

By Pushkar S

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Jun 20, 2020

A very good course with good practice examples! I would say a must for beginners in accounting domain!

By Kathryn A

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May 1, 2020

This course is an excellent overview of financial accounting that is taught in an easy-to-follow yet c

By Josh

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Nov 15, 2024

Thoroughly enjoyed this course and would highly recommend to anyone learning accounting as a beginner