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Isobel Wroath

Fiona Murray

James Patrick

Krutika Adatia
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About This Course:
What You Will Learn:
- How to properly applyfederal income tax laws to income taxpayers–both individuals and businesses
- How to usebasic finance tools tohelpindividual taxpayers and businessesmake decisionsthat maximize their after-tax wealth or earnings
- How to differentiate federal income tax laws from financial accounting standards

MicroMasters® Program in Accounting
Prerequisites:
Frequently Asked Questions:
Does this course require a textbook?
Yes, if you are Verified Learner, a textbook is required. If you choose to verify, you will also need to purchase a copy of Jones, Sally (2020). Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning 2020 Edition (23rd.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Print ISBN: 9781259969546, 1259969541; eText ISBN: 9781260433210, 1260433218. This textbook typically costs around $57.50 to rent and $93.75 to purchase permanently. A digital copy is acceptable.
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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Greg Geisler
About This Course:
What You Will Learn:
- Understand the key technical aspects of managerial accounting, including basic terminology and internal measurement systems
- How to confidently analyze information to make decisions, including identifying and analyzing costs, preparing budgets, and applying an economic framework
- Understand accounting’s theoretical framework and its interdisciplinary links

MicroMasters® Program in Accounting
Prerequisites:
This course is intended for those who have junior or senior standing at a college or university, or have already attained at least a bachelor’s degree.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Does this course require a textbook?
Yes, if you are Verified Learner, a textbook is required. If you choose to verify, you will also need to purchase a copy of Garrison, R. (2018). Managerial Accounting (16th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Print ISBN: 9781259307416, 1259307417: eText ISBN: 9781259995484, 1259995488. This textbook typically costs around $57.50 to rent and $93.75 to purchase permanently. A digital copy is acceptable.
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
Meet Your Instructor:

Brian P. Miller
About this course
This course builds on introductory accounting courses by providing you with a deep understanding of the conceptual foundations and mechanics of financial reporting and accounting standards. The course focuses on the measurement and reporting of the asset side of the balance sheets as well as the measurement of revenues and expenses on income statements. The content of the course is particularly important for students seeking careers in accounting and finance, as well as professionals who want to increase their knowledge of financial accounting.
Before taking this course, you should be familiar with basic accounting terminology, T-accounts, and journal entries. Financial Reporting I will help you become more fluent in accounting and business discussions.
The course places emphasis on firms’ economic transactions and business activities, and the accounting measurements and journal entries we use to measure and report those transactions and activities. You will develop professional judgment and critical thinking skills. You will consider the economics of business activities and events and consider the degree to which financial reports capture the underlying economics. This will enable you to obtain the tools necessary to understand and execute accounting procedures with an increased appreciation of the broader business context in which accounting information is prepared and used in business decisions.
What You Will Learn
- Understand the broad objectives of financial reporting and with respect to specific transactions
- How to measure, record, and report important business transactions
- How to prepare and analyze financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements
- How to effectively research more complex topic areas in US GAAP using the FASB’s Codification and other resources

MicroMasters® Program in Accounting
Prerequisites
This course is intended for those who have junior or senior standing at a college or university, or have already attained at least a bachelor’s degree.
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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Ken Merkley
About This Course:
High-quality information is the key to successful management of businesses. Despite the large quantity of data that is collected by organizations, managers struggle to obtain information that helps them make decisions. While operational processing systems help capture, store, and manipulate data to support day-to-day operations of organizations, reconciled systems — sometimes referred to as data warehouses or business intelligence (BI) systems — support the analysis of data, thus, enabling decision making.
With the advent of big data systems, organizations have turned to enterprise data management frameworks to manage and gain insights from the vast amount of data collected. While storage costs themselves are relatively affordable, the bigger challenge has been finding an appropriate mechanism to manage the data as many technologies (e.g., relational databases, data warehouses) have limitations on the amount of data that can be stored.
This course focuses on realizing the business advantage and business potential of operational, reconciled, and big data systems as well as data assets in supporting enterprise data management strategies and enterprise data analytics.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to design relational databases that are used to manage operational systems
- How to query relational databases using Structured Query Language (SQL)
- How to design data warehouses and business intelligence systems
- Understand the principles of data profiling, data integration, and master data management
- Understand the basics of Hadoop, Hive and Pig
Prerequisites:
- None
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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Ramesh Venkataraman

Jingjing Zhang

Vijay Khatri
About this course
In developing the digital ecosystem, a CIO adds value by strategically infusing business with innovative digital technologies. This requires an understanding of the range of technologies that are transforming the way business is done. Additionally, a successful CIO must be able to manage the adoption, implementation, and diffusion of tech within an organization. This includes analyzing the role of innovation and executing change strategies.
This course helps prepare professionals for digital transformation skills at the intersection of business and technology.Cloud computing is a foundational capability for success in business information systems. To be adaptable in the digital environment, businesses need agility, scale, and operating flexibility. Cloud computing applications can fulfill these needs. In this course, you will explore components of network architecture, virtualization, cloud computing models, deployment on the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Enroll now to learn the advantages of cloud computing in a business environment and the impact of cloud computing on information technology.
What you’ll learn
- The role of the CIO
- Key topics in IT management, including management of IT investments, IT portfolios, vendors, talent, and organizational change
- IT project management including the role of Agile frameworks
- Cybersecurity and risk management
- Enterprise data management, business analytics, and machine learning
- The role of emerging technologies. such as blockchain and distributed trust, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
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Bipin Prabhakar

Brad Wheeler

Carl Briggs

Alex Lopes

Hillol Bala

Ramesh Venkataraman
About This Course:
In this course, part of the Marketing in a Digital World MicroMasters program, you will learn how to apply the concepts of advertising and marketing to branding. We will examine topics and various strategies related to building, measuring, and managing a brand, including direct and indirect measures of brand equity, structures of desired brand knowledge, choice of brand elements, development of supporting marketing programs, and management of brands over time.
You will learn how to:
- Develop a framework to identify and establish brand positioning and values to build customer based brand equity
- Plan and implement brand marketing programs through integrated marketing communications and brand associations to build brand equity
- Evaluate how a brand equity management system can capture customer mindset and enhance market performance through sources and outcomes of brand equity
- Design specific strategies that focus around extending, revitalising and reinforcing existing brands to retain brand resonance (i.e. loyalty, attachment, community and engagement).
The branding landscape is fast-paced and continually changing, yet is a stimulating and exciting environment in which to work. This course is relevant to anyone working in marketing, communications, public relations, social media and advertising.
This course is part of the CurtinX MicroMasters Credential in Marketing in a Digital World that is specifically designed to teach the critical skills needed to be successful in this exciting field. In order to qualify for the MicroMasters Credential you will need to earn a Verified Certificate in each of the five courses.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to identify and establish brand positioning and values
- How to plan and implement brand marketing programs
- How to evaluate a brand equity management system
- How to design strategies that retain existing brand resonance

MicroMasters® Program Marketing in a Digital World
Develop in-demand marketing skills
Meet Your Instructor:

Ian Phau
About This Course:
The Internet has emerged as a platform to facilitate global commerce and communication. Its exponential growth has transformed the value chain of virtually every industry, and millions of commercial businesses are now doing business online. This course will introduce you to the range of marketing uses of the Internet.
You will learn how to:
- use basic e-marketing tools relevant to the internet marketing context;
- apply marketing strategies such as segmentation, targeting, positioning, and differentiation to an online context;
- analyse the online consumer exchange process and its outcomes;
- evaluate product, pricing, distribution and communication marketing functions in a firm’s internet marketing strategy;
- evaluate the role of social media in the marketing context;
- use digital analytics to evaluate and optimise the effectiveness of digital marketing strategies.
You will explore how marketing online differs from a traditional marketing environment, and identify and discuss web-based marketing opportunities such as using Facebook, Twitter and Google in today’s business world.
The digital landscape is fast-paced and continually changing, yet is an equally challenging and exciting environment in which to work. This course is relevant to anyone working in marketing, communications, public relations, social media and advertising.
This course is part of the CurtinX MicroMasters Credential in Marketing in a Digital World that is specifically designed to teach the critical skills needed to be successful in this exciting field. In order to qualify for the MicroMasters Credential you will need to earn a Verified Certificate in each of the five courses.
What You’ll Learn:
- Use basic e-marketing tools
- Apply traditional marketing strategies in an online environment
- Evaluate a firm’s internet marketing strategy

MicroMasters® Program Marketing in a Digital World
Develop in-demand marketing skills
Meet Your Instructor:

Billy (Cho Yin) Sung
About this course
For marketers, an understanding of how a consumer selects, purchases, uses and disposes of products and services is pertinent to successfully managing the marketing function.
In this course, you will learn about the role of consumer behaviour within marketing. We will discuss how this behaviour is shaped by the social and cultural environment, as well as a number of psychological factors.
You will learn about decision-making processes in consumption behaviour in different buying situations. This will develop your ability to integrate marketing processes at a higher level.
Concepts drawn from various disciplines such as psychology, economics and anthropology will be examined.
This course is part of the CurtinX MicroMasters Credential in Marketing in a Digital World that is specifically designed to teach the critical skills needed to be successful in this exciting field. In order to qualify for the MicroMasters Credential you will need to earn a Verified Certificate in each of the five courses.
What you’ll learn
- Apply analytical tools to determine how culture, personality and lifestyle affect the behaviour of consumers and self
- Analyse how consumer attitudes are formed, and consumer opinions change in order to better understand your own and other’s personal consumption experiences
- Evaluate how different sources of group influences can affect and radically change consumers’ consumption
- Create specific marketing strategies that focus around what motivates consumers, what captures their attention and what retains their loyalty

MicroMasters® Program Marketing in a Digital World
Develop in-demand marketing skills
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