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Course Online Syllabus

Summer 2011

Department ACCTCourse Number6377 Section Number19097
Name of Course International Accounting
Name of Instructor Reed,Randy Marl

This information may not constitute all course policies; students are responsible for all course requirements established by their instructors during the semester and all institutional policies as established in the UHV student handbook.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this course, students will

  1. Assist students in understanding the difficulty firms have dealing with strategic planning with branch offices of different cultures from around the world.
  2. Provide students with an understanding and appreciation of the problems investors face when analyzing financial statements from domestic and international firms.
  3. Help students understand and appreciate the diversity of financial accounting disclosure practices throughout the world.
  4. Help students understand the performance evaluation issues as they relate to multinational corporations and transfer pricing, and international taxation situations
  5. Provide students with an overview and a general understanding of the differences between Generally Accepted Accounting Principles used in the United States and accounting practices used throughout the world.
  6. Provide students with a basic understanding of foreign currency translation issues as they relate to multinational consolidations.

Major Assignments/Exams

Participation/Communication 100 points
Chapter Homework 100 points
MIDTERM EXAM 150 points
FINAL EXAMINATION 150 points

Required Reading

Timothy Doupnik & Hector Perera, International Accounting,3nd ed., ISBN 0078110955.

Recommended Reading

No additional readings have been recommended for this course.

List of Discussion/Lecture Topics


Course topics have not been submitted.