Accounting is as an information system, the main purpose of which is to provide information for decision making. This course is an introduction to the use of accounting information for decision making. Throughout your career you may work as a manager, investor, regulator, business analyst or professional accountant. Whatever your role is, you need to understand the financial accounting to use accounting information as input to make economic decision. The course objective will be achieved by introducing the concepts and issues of financial accounting with an emphasis on how the economic events of an organization are identified, measured, processed, and communicated to a wide variety of users.