FINC 565 - Valuation for Financial Reporting

3 credit hours

This course develops an integrated knowledge of accounting and finance and provides a financial reporting perspective for fair value-related issues. Topics will relate to the accounting for businesss combinations and asset impairments including the recognition and valuation of intangibles and contingencies, stock compensation accounting, derivatives accounting including assessing hedge effectivess and the accounting for hybrid financial instruments. Cross listed with ACCT 565. Prerequisites: MBA 501, 515, FINC/ACCT 538, FINC 542, ACCT 531, 532,533, 2 of FINC 549, 550, 554.