Basics of Financial Accounting
Foundations in Business Administration for Students of other fields of studies
Lecturer | Dr. Davud Rostam-Afschar |
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Frequency | Spring |
Courses | Lecture |
ECTS | 6 |
Language | German |
Form of Assessment | Written Exam (90 Min.) |
Contact

Johannes Gaul, M.Sc.
For further information please contact Johannes Gaul.

Christin Schmidt, M.Sc.
For further information please contact Christin Schmidt.

Jan Zental, M.Sc.
For further information please contact Jan Zental.
Course Structure
Learning Outcomes
The students acquire well-founded knowledge of accounting and accounting techniques, as well as a fundamental understanding of the principles of orderly book-keeping (GoB). Based on relevant business transactions, the double entry book-keepingsystem is presented and applied to concrete applications in practice. Students can individually book business transactions as well as apply the necessary techniques to both open and close the respective accounts. Within the exercise and tutorial classes, students look more deeply into the topics covered in the lecture.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to accounting
- Inventory and balancesheet
- Business transactions not affecting and affecting profit and loss
- Accounting principles and book-keeping techniques
- Goods traffic
- Value-added tax
- Acquisition costs
- Revenues and payment transactions
- Personnel Expenses
- Amortization of fixed and current assets
- Accruals and deferrals
- Provisions
- Introduction to accounting
Prerequisites
Formal: none
Recommended: none
Range of Application
- B.Sc. Business Informatics
- B.Sc. Business Education
- B.A. Culture & Economy
- LL.B. Unternehmensjurist
- B.Sc. Economics
- B.Sc. Business Mathematics
- B.A. Sociology
- B.A. Politics
- LAG Politics/
Business Economics - M.Sc. Psychology