Course details
If you’re looking to grow your career and take on greater responsibility within your organization, you’ll need to demonstrate a basic understanding of financial management—even if you’re not in a financial role. You don’t have to be a numbers person! You just have to appreciate their role in business. In this course, accounting professor Jim Stice helps you develop the financial acumen necessary to interpret financial reports and make decisions based on available data, manage inventory and receivables, create an accurate budget, and cost a product or service. Plus, learn how to analyze your customers, understand your income taxes, and communicate your contribution to the bottom line.
Instructors
Jim SticeLinkedIn Learning Instructor at LinkedInJim Stice is a professor of accounting at BYU.
James D. Stice, PhD, is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Accounting in the School of Accountancy at Brigham Young University (BYU). He teaches business and accounting to university students and to business professionals around the world. Professor Stice has been at BYU since 1988. He has co-authored three accounting textbooks and published numerous professional and academic articles. In addition, Professor Stice has been involved in executive education for Ernst & Young, Bank of America Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, RSM, and AngloGold Limited and has taught at INSEAD (in both France and Singapore) and CEIBS (in China). He has been recognized for teaching excellence by his department, his college, and the university. Professor Stice currently serves on the audit committee of Deseret Management Corporation and served on the board of directors of a publicly traded company until it was taken private.
Professor Jim Stice received a PhD from the University of Washington as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from BYU, all in accounting.
How to make wiser business decisions
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– Hi, my name is Jim Stice. I’m an accounting professor at Brigham Young University. I took my first accounting class in high school almost 40 years ago and I loved it. It all made perfect sense to me. I guess you can say that makes me a numbers person. And I know some of you are saying right now I am grateful there are people like you out there who enjoy the numbers stuff, but that is not me. Well you don’t have to become a numbers person but you can try to appreciate how numbers are used in business. You can understand where and when numbers can provide an important input into business decisions. Our objective with this course is to take the edge off the numbers of business. We will introduce you to the topics of accounting and finance. In this course you will learn about the financial statements, what they tell us and how they are used. You will learn how numbers help us manage our inventory levels, that’s how…