Financial Accounting and Capital Markets

This course focuses on financial accounting, capital markets, and the relationships between them. 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. 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. 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

• Apply and explain accrual accounting
• Model financial sensitivities
• Understand role of financial markets
• Apply sustainable finance principles
• Integrate learning and plan next steps
• Use skills for strategic decision making

• Basic familiarity with financial concepts and terminology
• Willingness to practice with exercises or case studies