Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780470239803 | 0470239808
Edition: 5Format: Hardcover
Publisher: WILEY
Pub. Date: 10/1/2008
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"Teaching and learning accounting would be simple if life were simple and if the business world were simple. Of course, life and business are full of complexities. Even more confounding, life and business scenarios are a whole new world to most accounting students. Our Team for Success guides students into their future world with their skillful presentation of principles, insights and applications." "We believe that the author team of Paul Kimmel, Jerry Weygandt, and Donald Kieso is the accounting student's best ally in rising to accounting's a... MORE
| Introduction to Financial Statements | |
| Knowing the Numbers | |
| Forms of Business Organization | |
| Users and Uses of Financial Information | |
| Business Activities | |
| Communicating with Users | |
| A Quick Look at Tootsie Roll's Financial Statements | |
| A Further Look at Financial Statements | |
| Just Fooling Around? | |
| The Classified B... MORE | |
| Using the Financial Statements | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Financial Reporting Concepts | |
| The Accounting Information System | |
| Accidents Happen | |
| The Accounting Information System | |
| Accounting Transactions | |
| The Account | |
| Steps in the Recording Process | |
| The Recording Process Illustrated | |
| The Trial Balance | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Accrual Accounting Concepts | |
| What Was Your Profit? | |
| Timing Issues | |
| The Basics of Adjusting Entries | |
| The Adjusted Trial Balance and Financial Statements | |
| Closing the Books | |
| Quality of Earnings | |
| Appendix: Adjusting Entries in an Automated World-Using a Worksheet | |
| Merchandising Operations and the Multiple-Step Income Statement | |
| Who Doesn't Shop at Wal-Mart? | |
| Merchandising Operations | |
| Recording Purchases of Merchandise | |
| Recording Sales of Merchandise | |
| Income Statement Presentation | |
| Evaluating Profitability | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Appendix: Periodic Inventory System | |
| Recording Merchandise Transactions | |
| Recording Purchases of Merchandise | |
| Recording Sales of Merchandise | |
| Comparison of Entries-Perpetual vs. Periodic | |
| Reporting and Analyzing Inventory | |
| Where Is That Spare Bulldozer Blade? | |
| Classifying Inventory | |
| Determining Inventory Quantities | |
| Inventory Costing | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Analysis of Inventory | |
| Appendix 6A Inventory Cost Flow Methods in Perpetual Inventory Systems | |
| First-In, First-Out (FIFO) | |
| Last-In, First-Out (LIFO) | |
| Average Cost | |
| Appendix 6B Inventory Errors | |
| Income Statement Effects | |
| Balance Sheet Effects | |
| Fraud, Internal Control, and Cash | |
| Minding the Money in Moose Jaw | |
| Fraud and Internal Control | |
| Cash Controls | |
| Control Features: Use of a Bank | |
| Reporting Cash | |
| Managing and Monitoring Cash | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Appendix Operation of the Petty Cash Fund | |
| Establishing the Petty Cash Fund | |
| Making Payments from Petty Cash | |
| Replenishing the Petty Cash Fund | |
| Reporting and Analyzing Receivables | |
| A Dose of Careful Management Keeps Receivables Healthy | |
| Types of Receivables | |
| Accounts Receivable | |
| Notes Receivable | |
| Financial Statement Presentation of Receivables | |
| Managing Receivables | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Reporting and Analyzing Long-Lived Assets | |
| A Tale of Two Airlines | |
| Plant Assets | |
| Determining the Cost of Plant Assets | |
| Accounting for Plant Assets | |
| Analyzing Plant Assets | |
| Intangible Assets | |
| Accounting for Intangible Assets | |
| Types of Intangible Assets | |
| Financial Statement Presentation of Long-Lived Assets | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Appendix: Calculation of Depreciation Using Other Methods | |
| Declining-Balance | |
| Units-of-Activity | |
| Reporting and Analyzing Liabilities | |
| And Then There Were Two | |
| Current Liabilities | |
| Bonds: Long-Term Liabilities | |
| Accounting for Bond Issues | |
| Accounting for Bond Retirements | |
| Financial Statement Presentation and Analysis | |
| Keeping an Eye on Cash | |
| Analysis | |
| Off-Balance-Sheet Financing | |
| Appendix 10A: Straight-Line Amortization | |
| Amortizing Bond Discount | |
| Amo | |
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Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, and has public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche (Minneapolis). He was the recipient of the UWM School of Business Advisory Council Teaching Award and the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award, and is a 3-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assisting Award at the Univ. of Wisconsin. He is also a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and has published articles in Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Advances in Management Accounting, Managerial Finance, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, and more.
