The Fourth Edition (unabridged version) is the most widely adopted text in the field. Together with the forthcoming Teacher's Manual, accompanying PowerPoint slides, and a national author forum on lawschool.westlaw.com, this casebook offers a complete and effective teaching tool and allows students to benefit from the most current materials available. In an effort to make accounting as understandable as possible, this book uses a "learn by doing" approach, with financial statements from Starbucks Coffee Company, Amazon.com, and Google Inc. to illustrate various concepts, and contains comprehensive problems in every chapter. By identifying and emphasizing those accounting topics and issues most likely to confront lawyers in the 21st century, it offers students more than basic accounting. Although primarily designed for the law student with no accounting background, the Fourth Edition (unabridged version) does include sufficiently provocative material to enable students with previous accounting experience to appreciate better how accounting issues interrelate with the legal profession. Because the Fourth Edition (unabridged version) retains and updates materials that cover more advanced topics, interested professors can also use these materials to teach a more sophisticated course.