Our goal is to help you develop a framework for understanding financial, managerial, and tax reports. The course goal is divided into five subordinate challenges that can help you organize the way you learn accounting:

1. The record keeping and reporting challenge
2. The computation challenge
3. The judgment challenge
4. The usage challenge
5. The search challenge

The course adopts a decision-maker perspective of accounting by emphasizing the relation between accounting data and the underlying economic events generating them. Restricted to first-year Sloan MBA students.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment is hereby given to Professor G. Peter Wilson for his authorship of the following content in this course:

• The Five Challenges (see Syllabus and Lecture 1)
• “What Do Intel and Accountants Have in Common?” (see Lecture 1)
• A Conceptual Framework for Financial Accounting (see Lecture 1)