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This is fantastic course. The only catch is that it doesnt have Chinese translation, which makes it a little bit more difficult for non-natives to learn. The quality is great.

I have only taken one year of accounting in high school before, but the course was really easy to comprehend and engaging!

Its a very good course.

The three first weeks were almost completely dedicated to traditional finance accounting ratio analysis.

Course was not easy to grasp, lost interest after the first week and I barely got through the quiz at the end.

This course is difficult for me since it requires extensive background of accounting studies while my background is in HR and Strategy. However, I grasped the opportunity to make up my finance and accounting related knowledge, and passed the course finally after several times of trial and error. The professors taught the course in a very interesting and fun way, which could have been a boring class with lots of difficult and hard numbers but turns out to be a class full of fun and laughters. I like the way the two professors are presenting the knowledge, as well as doing the analysis. Thanks for providing such a course! More courses like this should be organized to benefit more professionals or students in need!

Very useful material to financial review of cash flow statements.

Very informative course. Prof. Bushee is hilarious,, really like his teaching technique

not a big fan of accounting honestly, but i quite enjoy the course. doesnt involve a lot of in-depth math, and its easy to follow.

The first three weeks focussed heavily on ratios and detecting fraud and earnings management in an organization, the fourth week seemed to actually relate to data analytics and how non-financial aspects of a company play a role in the financial outcomes. I really do not see where a data analyst who is not in accounting field would be using the fraud detection scenarios in real life. A data analyst would be focused on improving the business and doing the analyses that pertain to improving certain aspects of a business, not finding his managers earnings management using an M-score etc.

It was very well done and very informational. Thanks again professors for your dedication and time to educate society!

My major is accounting but I still felt that it was so difficult. But I learned some knowlege which our teachers didnt tell me. Thanks!

Departments rigidity to information sharing as an ailment at middle and lower organizational levels was a notable issue

This course made me look at Accounting in a very different way; instead of common business schedules, it actually became exciting to read and find out what was really going on!

Most fruitful course for the most updated Accounting Analytics

Very informative and interactive. I like the style of Professor Bushees classroom teaching

I believe that it is a fantastic course for those have some basic accounting knowledge and the willingness to enter compliance area. More importantly, the concept linking financial and non-financial decisions are also fantastic to bring accounting to life! I do love both professors in the module!

great accounting ratio analysis

Good overview on Financial Analytics!

This was very challenging course for me... I felt you needed a strong knowledge base of financial statements to really understand what triggers potential fraud, deception. I think I will need to re-review the course material to reinforce the concepts. Thanks!

Focus of first 3 week is more of an audit analytics material. Quiz material could have been more interactive. Overall OK course.

An excellent course with Professor Bushee, as always (I completed a previous ten weeks course with him, also a superb quality programme of study), very practical, focused and complete, and absolutely enjoyable.

Interesting course. Motivating instructors. Tests were sometimes a bit too much about semantics and too little about applying knowledge in a practical way (which the course intro hinted on). But it was good value, manageable next to job and private life and fun to do. You wont regret it.

This has been a challenging course for a person that doesnt have any accounting experience

Professors need to undergo a presentation and Instruction Design skills. They were talking a lot and everything was going over my head, the reason was there were not visual prompt for the examples, specifically in the last week.

Excellent overview of identification of problems in financial statements

This is an excellent course, especially for someone with near zero knowledge of financial statements and their analysis. The concepts are clearly presented, with interesting details and supporting examples of their use. The inane comments by cartoon characters using poorly simulated accents is only mildly irritating.

Interesting course with good and clear explanation. Easy to understand and with fun!Thank you!

Very clear. Excellent instructor and its free if you dont pay for the cert! Can you have a better class experience? Thank you Prof. Bushee!

Wonderful! Very convenient discourse and utterly concise.

A very interesting course. Strengthening the advanced accounting concepts.

It was very breathtakingly and I think that it is the best course within the Business Analytics specialization.

difficult for people without accounting background to take.

Good structure... funny prof! ... alot to digest but worth it.

The contrast of provided material is quite huge. In first for weeks all the analytics are explained and decisions are shown, in the last week only principles and overall concepts are introduced.

I have many hours of undergraduate accounting and finance course work under my belt and this class gives you a tremendous overview of financial statement analysis. The only disadvantage is that the professor creates the workbooks for you and you only have to answer conceptual questions. While this would be great for some, I was hoping for some more hands on work to practice.

Excellent Material and instructions. Hard, but valuable

Although I am not a native speaker,but I try me best to understand it!Good teacher!Good Coursera!

Very insightful topic! A good overview of the use of analytics in accounting!

was worth the time, thanks professor

I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. The whole idea of earning management was cool. I will highly recommend this course to all.

Awesome Course! Very funny and really sophisticated! The last part is eye opening. Best course in this specialisation!It is not for beginners though, you should have a solid understanding of accounting for the first 3 lectures.

Besides serving as a refresher of a few accounting topics, this course really delivers on the topics of analyzing financial statements for possible fraud and linking non-financial metrics to financial performance.

I really appreicated the tools and techniques presented in the course. Very very valuable for Merger and Acqusition projects that I will be involved in (if ever)

Excellent thoughts and concepts presented.

i love professor Brian J Bushee!!

Great concise lectures and examples. Useful supplemental files. Entertaining Q&A in Brians sessions.

Rather robust material with strong focus on deceptive practice detection. A lot of ratio analyses, each with its own moniker which I found tedious. Informative and confirmed that I dont have the accountant gene.

Sorry to say but among the four courses of this specialization, this one really disappointed me. Not the fault of teachers or institute, i think the only mistake they made is try to fit too many topics in one course. Anyway this is only my opinion!

Amazing Course!

Very practical and complementary for other accounting courses.

The best auditing course out there!

The first 3 weeks demonstrate how to analyze financial performance based on accounting data taken from a companys reported income and investment decisions (10-K for example). The material is presented in an interesting manner with extensive use of Excel spreadsheets to demonstrate the calculation and application of common performance metrics and ratios. The test are challenging and interesting. I retook test I had passed because the information cover was interesting and the test provided an excellent learning opportunity. The fourth week deals with liking non-financial measures to financial performance. Within a typical organization, these parameters are often the ones employees most affect and are often measured against. The concepts and methods of evaluating presented with examples to demonstrate some of the problems with linking non-financial measures to financial performance.I will be able to use what I have learned from both of these classes in my current job. I evaluate current business strategies of my company against competitive business strategies. Since the competitive business strategies must be deduced from a combination of published information and reported financial performance, the first three weeks will be of greatest benefit in this aspect of my job. The last week will be of more benefit as I help business organization within my company develop their business strategies.

Great content but animations are annoying!

With my Accounts/Business/Finance/Statistics Graduation/Post Graduation Education and Teaching & Work Experience, I believe the Professor/Educator who Designed and Presented this Course requires atleast a Basic Training before putting together an important Course like Accounting Analytics.

Too far from subject

The course and the instructor are great, but a missed some referenced material.

Thanks to the Professor Brian Bushee for the good explanations. I learned a lot. I find the module 4 so difficult for me. The Prof Christopher Ittner is speaking like CNN journalist and not easy for a non native US or English speaker like me to follow.

I love to be taught accounting by Sir Brian. A very marvellous course.

Great Course

Really good teachers that made a boring theme (that I had in college) very interesting to watch and study.

Very good course well presented especially as the topic can be fairly complex.

Week 4 was the best and the more appropiate for the specialization.

Thank you for offering this course. It has taught me a lot of things that I hadnt known. Im interested in Accounting and there were some times I didnt know where I could gain the materials for study. Now thanks to your courses, I dont need to worry so much. Hope you will continue to produce more

The Capstone project has been getting delayed since JanDont expect yourself to complete the specialization

There was a gap between the prerequisites mentioned on the course details and those stated by Prof. Bushee during the lectures. As such, I found this course a bit harder due to tons of new terminologies in accounting.

Best course of the specialisation so far.

Prof Brian Bushee is really excellent but I felt that Prof Chris Ittners lecture was quite fluffy for an analytics course. Would have appreciated practice problems and case study practices like the operation analytics class

This course was very informative and can easily be used in any business setting. I can go an apply the methods learned in this course to any organizations financial statement to get a better idea of their financial performance. I really enjoyed in week 4 how the information learned in prior weeks can be tied to nonfinancial measures in developing a causal model to improve the performance of a company.

Thank you so much for this good-quality course! I benefit a lot. Many thanks to dear professors!

Really useful course, concise and resourceful

Very interesting course, well designed, using animated fun-makers to shoot out questions that you will probably do it yourself.Course content easy to understand. Very suited for non-accounting major analyst who wants to get some background in accounting analysis..

Very boring

Easiest accounting common sense. If you ever took acct , this will be a wasting of time.

While each of the Business Analytics courses have been terrific in their own way, Accounting Analytics was the most challenging and most enjoyable. Accounting + clear information + dogs + sense of fun = a great course. Thank you!

Extremely useful! I recommend it :)

Very interesting course!

Content very clear and explained by the professors.

Brain Bushees videos are really impressive. Some areas are too technical for a beginner to understand. The rest of the material provide good understanding...

Excellent course, professor Bushee always delivers such great explanations.

I really appreciate this instructor!! He is so considerate!

Great course!

Very interesting and provocative course. It will help you to receive additional knowledge which is very valuable.

Bushee was fantastic! Ittner was fine, but not as entertaining as Bushee.

Extremely useful, powerful and course

I loved the Accounting part of the course. It was quite hard for me (non-accounting person), however I really enjoyed the form of the lectures and the content itself (the earnings management + its revealing). Great materials Professor Bushee!

the Best cour and the Best sitetanks

I bit too complicated, as a lot of material placed within 4 weeks of ~15min videos.

I recommend this course to all my colleagues. Its enriched content certainly helped me to understand things in better way and provided content in structured way, which is I liked most.

While I enjoyed this course and the topics covered, I dont feel like the course content matched what the course description stated it was supposed to. I enrolled in the Business Analytics Specialization course with a focus on analyzing a business from the inside, not outside. Of the 4 weeks of the course, Id say that only week 4 was valid from an internal perspective but it was kept very high level. Id say this course could be good for a specialization in business market analysis, but not as advertised.I also found the cartoon classroom questions to be very annoying, almost as bad as fingernails on a blackboard.

Great course. Fantastic ideas around modelling equity returns based business and operational performance

good overview of analytics options within accounting.

Great course and great insights!

Great working examples to learn Analytics in Financial Statement Analysis. Pace of videos was great. Working excel worksheet gives perfect hands on experience to vary and run the scenarios. Having done Introduction to Financial Accounting by same professor gave little bit more visibility into reading statements and understanding ratio analysis.Virtual Classroom is getting more new students in each course. I am looking forward to Advance Financial Accounting course.

Great! As always great lectures by professor Bushee!

Very well done! Contents, delivery, clarity, everything was top notch. Thank you!

This course was one of the toughest courses i pursued so far... I was expecting a lot from this course. from basic to advanced and more of fundamentals. this course should be floated as full specialization rather than as a part of other specialization.

This was a good course, no doubt about it. But i felt, that the subject needed more depth that the course framework allowed. I would have liked if it had a part 2 for this course for people who wanted to go little more hands-on in this subject.

Finally i am able to complete this course. This course was little tougher than the other 3 courses due to some complicated accounting spreadsheet calculations. But i finally i am able to make it. Good Luck to rest of the folks.

The Best Course in Accounting Analytics.