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Current Assets and Asset Valuation

This course focuses on how companies manage and account for the primary current assets: accounts receivable, inventory and some investments.

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BeginnerUpdated Jan 22, 2025
Current Assets and Asset Valuation

What You'll Learn

check_circleDescribe how receivables appear on the balance sheet and explain how bad debts are accounted for.
check_circleList and describe the four basic issues involved in accounting for merchandise inventory.
check_circleDifferentiate raw materials, work in process and finished goods, and explain how costs are attached to the inventory account as products move through the manufacturing process and are eventually sold.
check_circleList and define the three primary inventory cost flow assumptions and how they affect both the balance sheet and the income statement.
check_circleList and describe the basic asset valuation approaches and explain how each approach affects the financial statements.

About This Course

This course focuses on how companies manage and account for the primary current assets: accounts receivable, inventory and some investments. It also provides a broad discussion of the general ways in which assets are depicted on the financial statements.

Field of Study: Finance

Your Instructors

Lambers Inc.
Lambers Inc.
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Lambers, Inc. is a leader in review courses for the EA, AFSP, and CPA exams. Lambers also offers IRS Continuing Education for Tax Preparers and CPE for CPAs. Accounting and finance professionals around the world incorporate Lambers products into their training programs.

Jamie Pratt
Jamie Pratt

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Jamie Pratt was the Alva L. Prickett Chair of Accounting at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and now holds the title of Distinguished Emeritus Professor. He received his doctorate in business from Indiana University in 1977, and has held faculty positions at the University of Washington (Seattle), the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Northwestern University and INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), returning to Indiana in 1991. Jamie’s research interests are in financial reporting and analysis, where he has published over 30 articles in the top academic research journals (including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Issues in Accounting Education), and he has taught courses in financial reporting and analysis at every level (introductory, intermediate, advanced) in every program (undergraduate, MBA, PhD). He has received over 30 teaching awards and recognitions, and also taught executive education courses throughout the world. Research and/or teaching recognitions have also come from the following organizations: American Accounting Association, American Taxation Association, Big 4 accounting firms (KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Indiana Society of CPAs, the Universities of Manchester (England), Kwansei Gakuin (Japan) and Kentucky, and Business Week magazine. His resume also includes two textbooks (one in its 11th edition), two computer-based interactive case platforms, a financial analysis case book, and several instructor guides that support these products.

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