Accounting Principles, 9th Edition
ISBN: 9780470317549 | 047031754X
Edition: 9Format: Hardcover
Publisher: WILEY
Pub. Date: 10/1/2008
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Weygandt Accounting Principles starts with what students know. In the new Ninth Edition, students clearly see the relevance of accounting in their everyday lives and are therefore motivated to do the work assigned.Weygandt Accounting Principles introduces challenging accounting concepts with examples that are familiar to the student. This connection to their everyday lives helps build student motivation, a key driver of student time spent on assignments and ultimately their mastery of the concept.
| Accounting in Action | |
| Feature Story: Knowing the Numbers | |
| What Is Accounting? | |
| The Building Blocks of Accounting | |
| The Basic Accounting Equation | |
| Using the Basic Accounting Equation | |
| Financial Statements | |
| All About You: Ethics: Managing Personal Financial Reporting | |
| Appendix: Accounting Career Opportunities | |
| T... MORE | |
| Feature Story: Accidents Happen | |
| The Account | |
| Steps in the Recording Process | |
| The Recording Process Illustrated | |
| The Trial Balance | |
| All About You: Your Personal Annual Report | |
| Adjusting the Accounts | |
| Feature Story: What Was Your Profit? | |
| Timing Issues | |
| The Basics of Adjusting Entries | |
| The Adjusted Trial Balance and Financial Statements | |
| Appendix: Alternative Treatment of Prepaid Expenses and Unearned Revenues | |
| Completing the Accounting Cycle | |
| Feature Story: Everyone Likes to Win | |
| Using a Worksheet | |
| Closing the Books | |
| Summary of the Accounting Cycle | |
| The Classified Balance Sheet | |
| All About You: Your Personal Balance Sheet | |
| Appendix: Reversing Entries | |
| Accounting for Merchandising Operations | |
| Feature Story: Who Doesn't Shop at Wal-Mart? | |
| Merchandising Operations | |
| Recording Purchases of Merchandise | |
| Recording Sales of Merchandise | |
| Completing the Accounting Cycle | |
| Forms of Financial Statements | |
| Periodic Inventory System | |
| Worksheet for a Merchandiser | |
| Inventories | |
| Feature Story: Where Is That Spare Bulldozer Blade? | |
| Classifying Inventory | |
| Determining Inventory Quantities | |
| Inventory Costing | |
| Inventory Errors | |
| Statement Presentation and Analysis | |
| All About You: Employee Theft-An Inside Job | |
| Inventory Cost Flow Methods in Perpetual Inventory Systems | |
| Estimating Inventories | |
| Accounting Information Systems | |
| Feature Story: QuickBooks r Helps This Retailer Sell Guitars | |
| Basic Concepts of Accounting Information Systems | |
| Subsidiary Ledgers | |
| Special Journals | |
| Fraud, Internal Control, and Cash | |
| Feature Story: Minding the Money in Moose Jaw | |
| Fraud and Internal Control | |
| Cash Controls | |
| Control Features: Use of a Bank | |
| Reporting Cash | |
| All About You: Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft | |
| Accounting for Receivables | |
| Feature Story: A Dose of Careful Management Keeps Receivables Healthy | |
| Types of Receivables | |
| Accounts Receivable | |
| Notes Receivable | |
| Statement Presentation and Analysis | |
| All About You: Should You Be Carrying Plastic? | |
| Plant Assets, Natural Resources, and Intangible Assets | |
| Feature Story: How Much for a Ride to the Beach? | |
| Plant Assets | |
| Determining the Cost of Plant Assets | |
| Depreciation | |
| Expenditures During Useful Life | |
| Plant Assets Disposals | |
| Natural Resources | |
| Intangible Assets | |
| Accounting for Intangible Assets | |
| Research and Development Costs | |
| Statement Presentation and Analysis | |
| All About You: Buying a Wreck of Your Own | |
| Appendix: Exchange of Plant Assets | |
| Current Liabilities and Payroll Accounting | |
| Feature Story: Financing His Dreams | |
| Accounting for Current Liabilities | |
| Conting | |
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Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Professor Weygandt have appeared in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertible securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Professor Weygandt is author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. He is the recipient of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educator's Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001 he received the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.
