Accounting for dummies
By: by John A. Tracy.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: --For dummies
Publisher: Wiley Pub.; For Dummies
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Accounting
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1: A first look at accounting. Strolling through the field of accounting; title: Getting to the bottom of the bottom line; title: Bookkeeping 101 : from shoeboxes to computers; title: Accounting and your personal finances.; title: Pt. 2: Figuring out financial statements. Making and reporting profit; title: The genesis and reporting of financial condition; title: Cash sources and uses and reporting cash flows; title: Getting a financial report ready .; title: Pt. 3" Accounting in managing a business. First things first : deciding the legal structure; title: Using accounting for managing profit; title: Budgeting profit and cash flow; title: Cost concepts and conundrums; title: Pt. 4: Financial reports in the public domain. Keeping score : choosing and implementing accounting methods; title: How investors read a financial report; title: Audits, accounting fraud, and audit failures.; title: Pt. 5: The part of tens. Ten profit and loss questions; title: Ten ways savvy business managers use accounting; title: Ten questions savvy investors ask when reading a financial report.