Fundamentals of Financial Accounting with Annual Report

3 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-734493-1
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 2018 g

Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, presents an engaging, balanced, and appropriately paced analysis of the fundamentals of financial accounting. Its conversational writing style makes it easy to read and understand, while the selection of real focus companies reinforces the relevance of accounting by introducing students to accounting and business activities in the context of their favorite companies. Balance between preparer and user orientations is achieved throughout the book, by studying both the accounting activities that take place inside the company, as well as evaluating their impact on decisions, and users outside the company. Topic coverage is paced appropriately for students new to accounting, and is thoroughly reinforced every step of the way with an ample variety of innovative pedagogical tools. Clearly understandable, relevant, and accessible, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting is simply the most student-friendly financial book on the market and provides the tools for students to grasp financial accounting from the ground up.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Sir Fred

Phillips, Fred

Libby, Robert

Libby, Patricia A.

Libby, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, 3rd Edition, Phillips/Libby/LibbyChapter 1: Business Decisions and Financial AccountingChapter 2: Reporting Investing and Financing Results on the Balance SheetChapter 3: Reporting Operating Results on the Income StatementChapter 4: Adjustments, Financial Statements, and Financial ResultsChapter 5: Financial Reporting and AnalysisChapter 6: Internal Control and Financial Reporting for Cash and Merchandise SalesChapter 7: Reporting and Interpreting Inventories and Cost of Goods SoldChapter 8: Reporting and Interpreting Receivables, Bad Debt Expense, and Interest RevenueChapter 9: Reporting and Interpreting Long-Lived Tangible and Intangible AssetsChapter 10: Reporting and Interpreting LiabilitiesChapter 11: Reporting and Interpreting Stockholders’ EquityChapter 12: Reporting and Interpreting the Statement of Cash FlowsChapter 13: Measuring and Evaluating Financial PerformanceAppendix A: Excerpts from the Fiscal 2008 Annual Report of The Home Depot, Inc Appendix B: Excerpts from the Fiscal 2008 Annual Report of Lowe’s Companies, IncAppendix C: Present and Future Value ConceptsAppendix D: Reporting and Interpreting Investments in Other Corporations (at text website www.mhhe.com/phillips3e)

Über Autor(innen)

Libby, Patricia
Patricia Libby is chair of the department of accounting and an associate professor of accounting at Ithaca College, where she teaches the undergraduate financial accounting course. She previously taught graduate and undergraduate financial accounting at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Texas. Before entering academia, she was an auditor with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and a financial administrator at the University of Chicago. She received her B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, her M.B.A from DePaul University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan; she also successfully completed the CPA exam (Illinois). Pat has published articles in The Accounting Review, Issues in Accounting Education, and The Michigan CPA and is also faculty advisor to Beta Alpha Psi and the Ithaca College Accounting Association.

Libby, Robert
Robert Libby is the David A. Thomas Professor of Accounting and Accounting Area Coordinator at Cornell University, where he teaches the introductory financial accounting course. He previously taught at the University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan. He received his BS from Pennsylvania State University and his MAS and PhD from the University of Illinois; he also successfully completed the CPA exam (Illinois).
Bob was selected as the AAA Outstanding Educator in 2000 and received the AAA Outstanding Service Award in 2006 and the AAA Notable Contributions to the Literature Award in 1985 and 1996. He has received the Core Faculty Teaching Award multiple times at Cornell. Bob is a widely published author and researcher specializing in behavioral accounting. He has published numerous articles in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations, and Society; and other accounting journals. He has held a variety of offices including vice president, in the American Accounting Association, and he is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Accounting, Organizations, and Society.

Phillips, Fred
Fred Phillips is a Master Teacher and professor of introductory accounting at the University of Saskatchewan. He previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Manitoba and has an undergraduate accounting degree, a CPA, a CA (Canada), and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Fred was a 2011 3M National Teaching Fellow and has received the L. S. Rosen Outstanding Educator Award, the American Accounting Associations Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award, and the American Accounting Associations Award for Outstanding Research in Accounting Education. He is also a recipient of the Edwards M.P.A.cc Teaching Effectiveness Award and, for the third time, the University of Saskatchewan Student Unions Teaching Excellence Award. He has published research and instructional cases in Issues in Accounting Education and professional judgment studies in Journal of Accounting Research and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.