MB-102 · Semester one
Financial Accounting
Because you cannot be trusted with a budget until you can read a balance sheet, and a surprising number of managers cannot.
- Code
- MB-102
- Semester
- 1 of 4
- Credits
- 4
- Assessment
- Written exam
4credits
4 of the 51 credits — 8% of the degreeSat in semester 1, alongside 5 other papers, in a semester worth 21 credits. At roughly 30 hours a credit that is about 120 hours of work.
What it covers
The three statementsDouble entryDepreciationRatio analysisReading an annual report
Studying it by distance
Hard alone if you have no numbers background. It is the subject where cheap programmes with no support genuinely cost you something.
How it is assessed
A written examination with problems. Practice matters more than reading here.
Our view. The single highest-value subject in the programme for most people. Worth paying for teaching on.