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    Corporate financial management and reporting course consists of six weeks of studying. The course will be held in English. Note, that you can choose to take the exams either in English or Finnish. Choose your assessment language from below. We have included short vocabularies to assist your learning each week. 

    After completing this course:

    • You will understand the role of accounting in companies and society.
    • You will be able to explain the significance of financial reporting.
    • You will comprehend the key concepts of financial reporting and typical business transactions.
    • You will be able to analyse the impact of business transactions on a company's cash flows, income statement and balance sheet.
    • You will be able to read and interpret financial statements and calculate their key ratios.
    • You will understand the importance of financial control in business operations.
    • You will be able to prepare financial plans and evaluate the profitability of products, services, and investments and make managerial decisions based on this information.
    • You will understand how performance can be measured and evaluated using both financial and non-financial metrics, and you will also be able to determine metrics based on the company's strategy.
    From the practicalities section you will find all the basic information, the discussion forums, the course timeline and the group enrollment. Here you can find the announcements, where important information about the course will be posted.

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      The choice of your assessment language can be updated. Please note that the maximum number of trials for each exam is a strict rule, if you take the exam more often than you are allowed to by for example switching the assessment language and taking the other language exam as well then the lowest grade will be the one which counts.