YTTP2130 Introduction to Accounting (5 cr)

Basics of financial and management accounting: Accounting information, recording business transactions, profit measurement, financial statement objectives, presentation and analysis, nature of management accounting, cost concepts and behavior, CVP -analysis, cost accounting systems (job order costing, process costing and activity-based costing).

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- explain the role of the accounting information in organizations and society
- define the basic concepts of accounting
- analyze the effects of basic transactions on the balance sheet equation
- explain and apply the logic of double entry bookkeeping
- record basic transactions and adjusting entries within the double-entry system
- explain the preparation of the financial statements for small businesses
- calculate and interpret key financial ratios
- define different concepts of costs and explain how different types of costs behave
- apply CVP analysis
- describe and apply the major types of cost management (accounting) systems

- Meta skills: analytical thinking