Spring 2027

Accounting and Analysis for Reporting Entities

Advanced accounting for alternative reporting entities, consolidations, foreign operations, and complex instruments.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Matthew Griffith4.2/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.40 GPA, 51.4% A/AB (n=70 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 65.2% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.43 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=66 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain reporting and analysis for the equity method, acquisition method, and intercompany transactions required in for-profit business entities.

  • Explain reporting and analysis for non-controlling interests, variable interests, foreign currency translation, and derivatives designed to hedge foreign currency risk required in for-profit business entities.

  • Explain reporting and analysis of financial statements required for governmental and not-for-profit entities.

  • Analyze complex financial arrangements to support conclusions for proper application of reporting standards.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ACCT I S 302, 702, declared in Business: Accounting and Business Analysis MSB, or the Business Exchange program

    • ACCTIS 302
    • ACCTIS 702
    • declared in Business: Accounting and Business Analysis MSB
    • the Business Exchange program
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ACCTIS 406

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  • Any of
    • ACCTIS 302
    • ACCTIS 702
    • declared in Business: Accounting and Business Analysis MSB
    • the Business Exchange program

Professors

Spring 2027

Matthew Griffith

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.42 GPA, 56.7% A/AB (n=67 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.52 GPA, 71.6% A/AB (n=74 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 65.2% A/AB (n=66 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MATT GRIFFITH is recorded teaching in 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 / 400
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.40 GPA, 51.4% A/AB (n=70 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 65.2% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.43 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=66 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Alternative reporting entities and financial statement preparation.
  • Mergers and acquisitions accounting.
  • Consolidation accounting.
  • Foreign operations and foreign currency translation.
  • Complex financial instruments and derivatives.
  • Equity method, acquisition method, and intercompany transactions.
  • Non-controlling interests and variable interests.
  • Governmental and not-for-profit entity financial statement reporting.

Skills

  • Explain reporting and analysis for the equity method, acquisition method, and intercompany transactions.
  • Explain reporting and analysis for non-controlling interests, variable interests, foreign currency translation, and derivatives used to hedge foreign currency risk.
  • Explain and analyze financial statement reporting for governmental and not-for-profit entities.
  • Analyze complex financial arrangements and support conclusions about applying reporting standards.
  • Apply theoretical, procedural, and practical accounting concepts to prepare financial statements for alternative reporting entities.

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 · 0.11 GPA average error.

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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 406 · Spring 2027

Accounting and Analysis for Reporting Entities

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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