Financial Accounting Foundations test

The Financial Accounting Foundations test is expected to, among other things, test a job candidate's knowledge of: (i) the underlying principles and concepts guiding the recording of economic events that place during (and at the end of) the accounting period; (ii) how the accounting cycle works; (iii) how financial statements are prepared and analyzed; (iv) how business combinations⸺the result of M&A deals⸺are accounted for in the books; (v) how leases are accounted for; and (vi) how to make financial reporting decisions that maintain a healthy balance between profit maximization and ethics.

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Albert Mensah

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Management Control at HEC Paris

Albert is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at HEC Paris, where he teaches the Financial Accounting course on the MBA program and conducts archival financial empirical research. Albert has almost two decades-long experience in financial and managerial accounting, both in the classroom (he has senior high school, bachelor, masters and PhD degrees in accounting) and in the industry (he has previously taught undergraduate students and has also worked as an accounts officer, acting accountant and consultant). He holds professional accreditations as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Chartered Economist (Ch.E) and a Chartered Financial Economist (Ch.FE).

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