Reflective Paper – Accounting Concepts Analysis
In a short paper (2-3 pages), please address each of the topics below with a 2-3 paragraph narrative for each section.
- Course Content: Describe the most important aspects of this course for you with respect to the content that was covered or activities in which you participated. Discuss the relevance and value or the practicum assignment with respect to your knowledge acquisition.
- Application of Course Content: Describe how you applied what you learned in this course at your workplace. Discuss how this course may have impacted your specific job, techniques you used at work, or other relevant aspects that show how what you learned was linked to your job.
- Job Experience Integration: Describe how your work experiences were used in the classroom and attributed to your performance in the course. Discuss how integrating your work experiences in class activities assisted in understanding topics discussed within the course.
Complete this assignment and submit it to the appropriate dropbox prior to the end of the course.
Class topic:
- Financial statements and mastering how to analyze them using ratios
- Time value of money
- Value of stocks and bonds.
- Cost of capital
- How companies choose which projects to do
- How companies incorporate risk in the projects that they do
- How risk in incorporated into capital budgeting decisions and how important leverage is for magnifying profits
- Derivatives and hybrid securities