Decision Making Using Financial Accounting
COURSE OUTLINE: This course aims at developing skills to understand, evaluate and use financial information in business decision-making. The course will introduce participants to develop an understanding of the important tools and techniques used in analyzing financial information. ABOUT INSTRUCTOR: Prof. G. Arun Kumar is a Professor at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras. He does research in the area of finance with a specific focus on Corporate Valuation, Corporate Governance, and Development Finance. He has co-authored two books: one on "Management Accounting" with Prof. Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School and Prof. Atkinson of University of Waterloo and another on "Public perception of security" which encompasses food and health security. He has worked on many development projects related to emerging economies pertaining to financial inclusion, migration and remittances, state and non-state justice systems, etc.