Financial Accounting, Tools For Business Decision Making - Hardcover

Kimmel, Paul D.; Weygandt, Jerry J.; Kieso, Donald E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471415782 ISBN 13: 9780471415787

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

Now in its Third Edition, Financial Accounting by Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso has been tested and approved in the classroom. This best-selling text has helped students hit the road with a practical set of tools, and the confidence they need to use those tools effectively in making business decisions.

Financial Accounting provides students with an understanding of those concepts that are fundamental to the use of accounting. Starting with a "macro" view of accounting information, the authors present real financial statements and establish how a financial statement communicates the financing, investing, and operating activities of a business to users of accounting information. They motivate students by grounding the discussion in the real world, showing them the relevance of the topics covered to their future career.

Student Workbook:  This valuable study guide, written to use side-by-side with the Financial Accounting textbook provides the guidance and assurance you need to exceeed in the course.  Included a re study objectives, demonstration problems, true/false and multiple-choice questions, solutions, to exercises, chapter outlines, and blank working papers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This user-friendly book teaches readers fundamental accounting procedures with an emphasis on the relationship between the procedural detail and the fundamental accounting equation. It gives readers the conceptual and procedural accounting tools they need in order to make sound internal and external business decisions.

From the Back Cover:

Now in its Fourth Edition, Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso’s Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making has been tested and approved in the classroom. Whether you measure classroom success by improved grades, students who are better prepared for the Intermediate course and their future careers, or by student evaluations at the end of the semester, Financial Accounting delivers real results.

“If you are teaching a debit/credit centered financial accounting principles class there is not a better written or organized text.  Believe me I have looked.  The supporting materials for instructors [are] also terrific.”
––Nancy Snow, University of Toledo

“The textbook is well written with good examples and homework problems.   This book is easy to understand, but is rigorous in its coverage of accounting issues.”
––Paul Brazina, La Salle University, Philadelphia

“Best presentation of material in the industry. In addition, Financial, Managerial and Intermediate all flow together for greater coverage and comprehension.”
––Vince Enslein, Clinton Community College

Key Features

WileyPLUS gives instructors the technology they need to create an environment where students can reach their full potential and experience academic success. www.wiley.com/college/wileyplus
New Accounting Across the Organization features place accounting issues within the context of students’ majors.
Updated with expanded content on Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Governance.
New Comprehensive Problems combine concepts across chapters.
A new Continuing Cookie Chronicle problem traces the growth of an entrepreneurial venture and enables students to apply their newly acquired accounting skills.
Identifies the tools students will need to make real business decisions.
Provides balanced coverage of the accounting cycle at a level that is appropriate to what students need in the business world.
Emphasizes the accounting experiences of real high-profile companies, such as Tootsie Roll, Microsoft, Nike, and Intel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471415782
• ISBN 13: 9780471415787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 832