Explaining financial results to non-financial managers

Learning objectives

Learning Objectives: After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

  • Describe the relationship between accounting and business operations
  • Understand the accounting information generating processes and its assumptions
  • Understand the information conveyed by major financial statements
  • Use financial statement information for business decisions
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David Wang

Instructor bio

David Wang is an award-winning professor in both teaching and research who received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He mainly teaches audit analytics, data mining, IT auditing and accounting information systems. He has been invited by conferences and universities around the world to discuss curriculum design and teaching strategies and is currently listed on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for developing an analytics curriculum for accounting programs. Dr. Wang’s research interests are IT management and information security management. He is currently the 2nd most productive accounting information systems researcher based on Brigham Young University’s accounting researcher ranking and his papers have more than 30,000 full-text downloads from the Science Direct academic network. Dr. Wang actively serves in the professional community as an editor, reviewer and conference/workshop coordinator. He was also the president of the American Accounting Association Midwest Region in 2020, as well as the 2018 KPMG James Marwick Professor in Residence.

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