AFA 100

Introductory Financial Accounting

This course introduces students to the interesting and challenging field of Financial Accounting. Financial Accounting is a language designed to capture, summarize, and communicate the economic facts about an organization in a set of financial statements and the related descriptive notes. The course will focus on the principles of accounting and reporting to various users that are external to the organization. AFA 100 will emphasize the decision-makers or users. You will learn what information is provided in financial statements and the uses and limitations of this information to various decision-makers. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are developed through use of case analysis.

Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.

GPA Weight: 1.00

Course Count: 1.00

Billing Units: 1

Prerequisites

None

Co-Requisites

None

Antirequisites

None

Custom Requisites

Available only to School of Accounting and Finance students

Mentioned in the Following Calendar Pages

*List may not include courses that are on a common table shared between programs.

ACC 100 - Introductory Financial Accounting
ACC 110 - Financial Accounting
ACC 340 - Financial Management
ACC 406 - Introductory Management Accounting
ACC 410 - Management Accounting
AFA 200 - Introductory Management Accounting
AFA 300 - Intermediate Financial Accounting I
AFA 350 - Accounting for Finance Professionals
AFA 517 - Taxation for Managers and Financial Planners
AFA 619 - Intermediate Management Accounting
Accounting and Finance
FIN 300 - Managerial Finance I