Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471169196 ISBN 13: 9780471169192

Publisher: Wiley, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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 the Author

Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting form the University of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche (Minneapolis). He is the recipient of the UWM School of Business Advisory Council Teaching Award, the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award, a three-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Wisconsin, and a recipient of the Elijah Watts Dells 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 the Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education as well as other journals. His research interests include accounting for financial instruments and innovation in accounting education. He has published papers and given numerous talks on incorporating critical thinking into accounting education and helped prepare a catalog of critical thinking resources for the Federated Schools of Accountancy.

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, the Journal of Accountancy, and other professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertibles securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. He 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. In addition, he is actively involved with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has been a member of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) of that organization. He has served on the FASB task force that examined the reporting issues related to "accounting for income taxes" and is presently a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. Professor Weygandt has received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. Recently he received the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educator's Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Donald 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 Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. He has public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse & Co. (San Francisco and Chicago) and Arthur Andersen & Co. (Chicago) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He is a recipient of NIU's Teaching Excellence Award and four Golden Apple Teaching Awards. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the AACSB's Accounting Accreditation Committee, the State of Illinois Comptroller's Commission, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. Professor Kieso is serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee pf Aurora University, the Boards of Directors of Castle BlancGroup Inc. and Valley West Community Hospital, and as Secretary-Treasurer of The Sandwich Hospital Resolution Board. From 1989 to 1993 he served as a charter member of the national Accounting Education Change Commission. In 1988 he received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the Illinois CPA Society; in 1992 he received the FSA's Joseph A. Silvoso Award of Merit and the NIU Foundation's Humanitarian Award for Service to Higher Education; and in 1995 he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois CPA Society. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471169196
• ISBN 13: 9780471169192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 816