Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 832 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 4th Edition February 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471730513
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471730514
• Book Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 3.9 pounds

Book Description
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.

Book Info
Textbook includes updated data, new Ethics and Research cases, expanded material, and an added section on statement of cash flows presentation of investments. Includes multi-colored illustrations, review exercises, and index. Also includes a bound, pull-out Tootsi Roll Industries Annual Report 2001. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, with Annual Report (Hardcover) Using this book as a required text for a brush up/seminar course for an MBA program, I've found this book did not do enough reviewing for me with regards to creating financial reports-- income statement, statement of cash flows, balance sheet, etc. I had managerial accounting, financial accounting and financial management in undergrad, however, this book still lacks the concrete basics of "what goes where on a financial report and why". Speaking to my undergrad accounting department chair, I found my opinion agreed with her's-- Kimmel is verbose and lacks clarity/simplicity for those without an accounting focus or background. Comment | | (Report this)