45-800 Corporate Financial Reporting

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed to strengthen your ability to correctly interpret financial statements and their accompanying disclosures. The course is aimed at anyone whose career might involve working with accounting data and should be especially useful for those interested in consulting and financial analysis. Throughout the semester we will discuss the key disclosure rules in the United States, the communication methods available to managers managers' incentives and ability to exert discretion over reported earnings and the interplay between a company's corporate strategy and its financial reporting policies and practices. The course covers a number of topics of recent interest to the business community.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Spring 2026

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