Spring 2027

Financial Reporting II

Financial Reporting II examines current and emerging financial reporting theory and techniques used primarily to measure and disclose financial claims on assets.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Dan Lynch3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.45 GPA, 71.0% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 70.4% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.47 GPA, 68.5% A/AB (n=92 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain complex financial events and their effect on financial statements, cash flows and accounting based contracts.

  • Explain the measurement and valuation concepts of financial statement elements, including complex fair value concepts.

  • Recognize and discuss controversial and emerging practices in valuation and the potential economic consequences of these accounting rules.

  • Interpret how financial information may impact a company, management decisions or investor decisions.

  • Identify and apply appropriate accounting standards to complex economic events.

  • Analyze a problem and arrive at a conclusion that integrates all available information and justify their conclusion convincingly to others.

  • Develop and demonstrate effective communication and networking skills with their class peers.

  • Reflect on how to pursue their future career goals within the accounting profession and how those goals compare with those of their peers.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ACCT I S 301 or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

    • ACCTIS 301
    • declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
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ACCTIS 302 used by

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  • Any of
    • ACCTIS 301
    • declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

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Raw average: 4.33/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.24 GPA, 41.5% A/AB (n=82 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.49 GPA, 70.4% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 70.4% A/AB (n=81 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAN LYNCH is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 350
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 370
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 350

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.45 GPA, 71.0% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 70.4% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.47 GPA, 68.5% A/AB (n=92 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Current and emerging financial reporting theory and techniques for measuring and disclosing financial claims on assets.
  • Controversial and emerging practices in valuation and their potential economic consequences.
  • Impact of financial information on company, management, and investor decisions.

Skills

  • Measure and disclose financial claims on assets using current and emerging financial reporting theory and techniques.
  • Explain measurement and valuation concepts of financial statement elements, including complex fair value concepts.
  • Identify and apply appropriate accounting standards to complex economic events.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.10 GPA average error.

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1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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ACCTIS 302 · Spring 2027

Financial Reporting II

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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