Accounting For Dummies

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 408 pages
• Published by: For Dummies
• Edition: 3rd Edition December 17, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764578367
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764578366
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Book Description
Whether you’re a small business owner or just want to understand your 401(k) statements, a basic understanding of accounting practices is important for anyone who handles money. Knowing how to balance the books and stay in the black is vital for keeping a business afloat or keeping your checkbook balanced.

If you need to keep the books in order, this new edition of Accounting For Dummies helps you get a handle on all those columns of numbers. It offers fully up-to-date coverage of accounting basics and includes all the tools and tips you need to:

• Make sense of bookkeeping basics
• Read a financial statement
• Manage budgets for a better bottom line
• Analyze business strengths and weaknesses
• Evaluate accounting methods and business structures

John Tracy, Certified Public Accountant and former professor of accounting, presents everything you need to know to master modern accounting. Packed with practical guidance and real-world scenarios, this handy guide covers it all:

• Making and reporting profit
• Reporting a company’s financial condition
• Preparing financial reports
• Budgeting profit and cash flow
• Choosing and implementing accounting methods
• How to read a financial report
• Audits, accounting fraud, and audit failure
• How to decipher accounting jargon
• And savvy ways businesses use accounting

From balance sheets, to income statements, to inventory, almost every aspect of modern business requires basic accounting techniques. You’ll learn it all here. Plus, this new edition covers the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, recent accounting fraud scandals, the establishment of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the new financial reporting standards for stock options and financial derivatives.

Book Info
(IDG Books) A friendly guide for the average human being to basic accounting principles. Shows how to use accounting and financial reports to streamline business operations by controlling costs, minimizing taxes and maximizing profits. Previous edition; c1997. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Accounting for Dummies (Paperback) This is the book. This book got me, a non-quantitative anti-numbers person, through MBA financial accounting. Particularly good are chapters 5-9, that help interpret and explain financial statements. By no means does this offer everything you need to know for accounting, but offers a great foundation (hence, Dummies). I have also used it in my personal life to review info on my stocks. Comment | | (Report this)