This opportunity is part of the King's Edge Summer Skills Programme
In this two-day course, delivered by King’s Business School, we will give you everything you need to know to start reading and understanding financial statements with confidence. You do not need to be “good with numbers” to take this course. Financial accounting is much more about understanding the processes, structure, and logic that sit behind the numbers. Accounting is often described as the language of business, and this course is designed to help you become fluent in it—particularly if you have little or no prior accounting knowledge.
The course is open to students from across King’s and is designed to support you in your future career, whether you plan to work in the private, public, or not-for-profit sectors. Understanding whether an organisation is profitable, how it is valued, and whether it has sufficient cash flow to survive is a vital skill in any professional context. This is why financial reporting is the language of business: it allows you to understand what is really happening inside an organisation and to make informed decisions based on evidence.
The course will be highly interactive and centred on making business decisions using real financial information. Alongside this, you will be supported by a wide range of online materials that allow you to practise in your own time. What you learn here will give you a practical toolkit for interpreting organisations and the business decisions they face.
By the end of the two days, you will be able to read, understand, and prepare basic financial statements. We will work through the building blocks of financial accounting, focusing on core accounting principles and—crucially—how to apply these principles in practice.
Event ID: 01806-M4J3R