Managerial Accounting, Study Guide: Tools for Business Decision Making - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470128879 ISBN 13: 9780470128879

Publisher: Wiley, 2007

Synopsis

From the leading accounting author team of Weygandt, Kimmel and Kieso, this new edition of Managerial Accounting gives readers the tools they need to succeed, whether as accountants or in other career paths. The book helps build their decision-making skills and understand how to use accounting information to make quality business decisions. The third edition also continues the tradition of unparalleled accessibility by breaking difficult or complicated processes down into manageable, understandable steps.

About this title

From the Back Cover

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING TAKES YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO!

Where do you want to go? Will  you be going on to other accounting courses, or are you following a different career path? Regardless of where you want to go, this managerial accounting learning system will take you there!

Get grade-pumping assistance with the new take-action CD-ROM

Interactive CD packed with Self-Tests with individualized feedback. Key Terms Matching Activities, Lecture Videos and Discussion Questions, a Winning Handbook, an Accounting Cycle Tutorial, Career Information and much more! All of this isw designed to help you get the best grade you can in the course...and to give you the tools you need to take you where you want to go in your Career!

A web site takes you even further

When you buy a new copy of this text, you get access to a FREE powerful Companion Website featuring:

• Problems and Demonstration Problems from the text powered by the interactive eGrade software.
• Interactive Self-Study Questions and Self-Tests.
• Exploring the Web Exercises and more!

A world of extra help to keep you on the road!

• Solving Problems Using Excel—Excel templates that allow you to complete select end-of-chapter exercises and problems.
• Study Guide—a powerful tool that guides you through chapter content.
• Working Papers partially completed spreadsheets so you can concentrate on doing accounting rather than inputting data.
• Excel Working Papers—all the accounting forms you will need to successfully complete your study work for Managerial Accounting 2e.

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About the Author

Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He Hold 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.In 2001 he received hte American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

Donald E. Kieso, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. He has served as chairman of the Department of Accountancy and is currently the KPMG Peat Marwick Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Northern Illinois University. He has public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse & Co. (San Francisco and Chicago) and Arthur Andersen & Co. (Chicaqgo) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He has done postdoctorate work as a Visiting Scholar at the Univresity of California at Berkeley and is a recipient of NIU's Teaching Excellence Award and four Golden Apple Teaching Awards. Professor Kieso is the author of other accounting and business books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Instutute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Illinois CPA Society. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the AACSB's Accounting Accreditation Commitees, the State of Illinois Comptroller's Commission, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of the American Accounting Association. Professor Kieso is currently serving on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Aurora University, as a member of the Board of Directors of Castle BancGroup Inc., and as Treasurer and Director of Valley West Community Hospital.

Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the University 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, the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award, and a three-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award for Honorary Distinction for his results on the CPA exam. 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, as well as other journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470128879
• ISBN 13: 9780470128879
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 336