Financial accounting for a wellbeing company (5 cr)

Objective

You demonstrate that you are familiar with the basics of enterprise finances and financial accounting.
You know the basic principles of bookkeeping and the process from recording the basic business transactions to the reporting of financial statements.
You can analyze and interpret the financial statements and ratios of a small enterprise.
You are able to explain the basic principles of value added taxation and business taxation in different forms of business.

Content

What is the role of financial accounting in business operations?
How to apply the process of accounting cycle in a small enterprise?
How to analyze and interpret financial statements?
What are the basic principles of value added taxation and business taxation?
How to take into account the value added taxation in accounting cycle and reporting?

Evaluation

Students can
a. systematically use professional vocabulary
c. identify interrelated tasks
e. use the key models, methods, software and technologies of the professional field

Course material

Materials will be announced in Learn. All the materials are available online.

Timing of exams and assignments

The course contains both individual assignments as well as group work assignments. The schedule of the assignments will be announced in Learn.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Both individual assignments and group assignments are evaluated.

The basis for evaluation is:

Students can
- use professional vocabulary systematically
- look for information in the key information sources of the field
- identify interrelated tasks
- use the key models, methods and techniques of the professional field
- work as team members in a goal-oriented way

Assessment criteria equals to grade 3.