Financial accounting
By: Jeffrey Waybright, Robert Kemp
Contributors: Kemp, Robert S.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780136060482
Description: This textbook introduces students to the accounting function and how it is used within our economic society. The authors look at accounting as an information-generating system that communicates financial data to support end users in their economic decision-making. They include the theory and concepts of accounting, as well as their view of accounting as "the language of business" and as the art of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Business, accounting,and you; title: Analyzing and recording business transactions; title: Adjusting and closing entries; title: Accounting for a merchandising business; title: Inventory; title: Ethics, internal control, and IFRS; title: Cash and receivables; title: Long-term assets; title: Current liabilities and long-term debt; title: Corporations : paid-in capital and retained earnings; title: The statement of cash flows; title: Financial statement analysis.