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Product Description Messier employs the audit approach currently being used by auditing professionals. This approach is a direct result of the demands of Sarbanes-Oxley, which has changed the way auditors do their jobs. The approach emphasizes understanding the entity (i.e., the organization or business being audited) and its environment (i.e. industry), and then assessing the business risks faced by the entity and how management controls those risks. This audit process focuses on business processes instead of accounting cycles. This unique and innovative approach has been developed in response to changing market dynamics. The systematic approach, referred to in the subtitle of the text, reflects the early introduction of three basic concepts that underlie the audit process: materiality, audit risk, and evidence; this allows Messier to build upon this model in subsequent chapters. These are central to everything an auditor does and a unique feature of Messier. As such, this approach helps students develop auditor judgment, a vital skill in today's auditing environment. About the Author Professor William F. Messier, Jr., is the Deloitte & Touche Professor at the School of Accountancy, Georgia State University. He holds a Professor II position at the Institute for Accounting and Auditing, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and he is a visiting professor at SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy. Professor Messier has a BBA from Siena College, an MS from Clarkson University, and an MBA and DBA from Indiana University. He is a CPA in Florida and has taught at the Universities of Florida and Michigan. Professor Messier has served as the Chairperson of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and as co-editor of the Journal of Accounting Literature. He currently serves on the AICPA's International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. Professor Messier has authored or co-authored over 45 articles in accounting, decision science, and computer science journals. |
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| Review "I would urge [our academic coordinator] to strongly look at this book, as having been changed significantly and positively since the last time he probably looked at it. I would also suggest it to colleagues at other schools, where the course was appropriate, if they asked me for ideas." "Needles/Powers is the most readable comprehensive text on the market. Even poor readers can and do learn from the text. Most importantly, Needles/Powers allows the instructor flexibility in teaching style and material emphasis. Needles works well whether you teach from a preparer or user approach." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Product Description Building on the flexible and balanced approach that has made this text a market leader, the new edition of Financial Accounting provides a strong real-world emphasis, integrates performance measurement, and emphasizes technology. New features motivate critical thinking, analysis, and decision-making. Financial Accounting remains the most accurate text on the market, with accuracy reviewers checking every line and working through every exercise, problem, and case in the text and supplements. New! "Stop and Think" questions for each learning objective motivate students to read actively. These critical-thinking questions—each of which is accompanied by a short answer—can also be used as a review device or as the basis for class discussions. New! The Supplement at the end of Chapter 1 now includes Walgreens company financial statements immediately following the most recent Toys 'R' Us Annual Report. New! Chapter-ending "Comparison Cases" require students to use the Walgreens and Toys 'R' Us financial statements to review information as a professional analyst would. Students must calculate various ratios and do a comparative analysis of the two companies based on their results. New! The popular "Focus on Business" boxes, which relate accounting to the real world of business, have been updated and redesigned, and more than 35 of the features are new to this edition. New! Each learning objective includes a list of end-of-chapter "Related Text Assignments" so students can identify the questions, exercises, problems, and cases that are associated with particular learning objectives. New! The new edition features three new video cases, bringing the total number of video cases to six. The videos are available on both the Student CD-ROM and the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM for instructors. New! The instructors' web site now features a collection of 16 new essays—one for each chapter—that discuss current events and issues. Essay topics include the Enron crisis, the nature and importance of goodwill, and the controversy surrounding accounting for stock options. These essays can be used as exam questions or extra credit assignments. Each essay comes with two sets of questions—one set that students can answer by reading the essay, and a second set that requires students to do additional research. Suggested answers are provided for both sets of questions. New! Bridge Tutorial CD-ROM for students emphasizes accounting transactions, provides a review of the debit/credit mechanism, and provides a foundation for the preparation of financial statements. The CD-ROM features 50 pre- and post-test activities on accounting concepts, designed to test students' basic understanding of the accounting cycle. Key concept tutorials provide reinforcement and practice for students. Interactive "Review and Reinforce" questions with rejoinders provide feedback on right and wrong answers. The tutorial also includes demonstration problems with voice-over narrations and a built-in glossary with on-screen pop-up definitions. New! Premium Blackboard and WebCT CD-ROMs include course material and information, course documents, chapter overviews, learning objectives, chapter and lecture outline, key points, key terms with definitions, PowerPoint files, Excel and Word documents, chapter summaries, assignments, and Web links. The CD-ROMs also contain self-test questions from the student Study Guide, ACE self-quizzes, interactive exercises, web exercises, discussion questions, real-world examples, cross-disciplinary features, visuals, and more. |
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| Product Description Students are often overwhelmed by the amount of information presented in the introductory financial accounting course. Fundamental Financial and Managerial Accounting Concepts gives students the big picture, by focusing on fundamental concepts in a logical sequence. The authors intentionally limit the scope of the material to help students build a solid foundation of the most important concepts. As a result, students are able to fully comprehend the material rather than memorize seemingly unrelated terms and topics. In the Financial portion the "horizontal financial statements model" enables students to understand how any given business event affects the financial statements. This highly praised feature allows students to visualize the simultaneous impact of business events on all of the key financial statements (the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows). The mechanics of accounting coverage (debits and credits) is delayed until chapter 3 allowing instructors the flexibility in the amount of emphasis they want to place on this topic. About the Author Thomas P. Edmonds, Ph.D.: Dr. Edmonds is Professor of Accountancy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, (UAB). He has been actively involved in teaching accounting principles throughout his academic career. He has received several prestigious teaching awards, including the UAB President's Excellence in Teaching Award and the distinguished Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for excellence in classroom teaching. His academic experience includes being published in the Journal of Accounting Education, the Accounting Review, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance among others. Dr. Edmonds received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Georgia State University. Philip R. Olds, Ph.D., CPA: Dr. Olds is Professor of Accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University, and received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Frances M. McNair, Ph.D., CPA: Dr. McNair holds the KPMG Peat Marwick Professorship of Accounting at Mississippi State University, (MSU) and received her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Mississippi. Her research has been published in the Journal of Accountancy, Management Accounting, and the Business and Professional Ethics Journal. |
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| Product Description Many corporate managers struggle to see the relevance of accounting in their everyday responsibilities. Weygandt shows them how managerial accounting information fits in the larger context of business so they are better able to understand the important concepts. The new Do It! feature reinforces the basics by providing quick-hitting examples of brief exercises. The chapters also incorporate the All About You (AAY) feature as well as the Accounting Across the Organization (AAO) boxes that highlight the impact of accounting concepts. With these features, readers will have numerous opportunities to think about what they have just read and then apply that knowledge to sample problems. From the Back Cover MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING TAKES YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO! Where do you want to go? Will you be going on to other accounting courses, or are you following a different career path? Regardless of where you want to go, this managerial accounting learning system will take you there! Get grade-pumping assistance with the new take-action CD-ROM Interactive CD packed with Self-Tests with individualized feedback. Key Terms Matching Activities, Lecture Videos and Discussion Questions, a Winning Handbook, an Accounting Cycle Tutorial, Career Information and much more! All of this isw designed to help you get the best grade you can in the course...and to give you the tools you need to take you where you want to go in your Career! A web site takes you even further When you buy a new copy of this text, you get access to a FREE powerful Companion Website featuring: Problems and Demonstration Problems from the text powered by the interactive eGrade software. Interactive Self-Study Questions and Self-Tests. Exploring the Web Exercises and more! A world of extra help to keep you on the road! Solving Problems Using Excel—Excel templates that allow you to complete select end-of-chapter exercises and problems. Study Guide—a powerful tool that guides you through chapter content. Working Papers partially completed spreadsheets so you can concentrate on doing accounting rather than inputting data. Excel Working Papers—all the accounting forms you will need to successfully complete your study work for Managerial Accounting 2e. You can buy these additional resources at your bookstore, or see the Wiley website for more details about all the roadside assistance available to you from Wiley! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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| About the Author John J. Wild is Professor of Business and Vilas Research Scholar at The University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he also received his Ph.D. He has received numerous teaching awards at Wisconsin as well as from Michigan State University. He is a frequent speaker at universities and national and international conferences. |
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| Product Description DruryÂ's Management & Cost Accounting is the market-leading European text on management accounting and is a comprehensive authority on all aspects of the subject. The book has been streamlined and substantially redesigned in its 6th edition to make the book even more suitable for the needs of todayÂ's student. There are both printed and web-based resources for the book at www.drury-online.com. The site is packed with valuable resources for students and lecturers. There are resources that are open to access for all and there are resources that are restricted to lecturersÂ' use only. The aim of the sixth edition is to explain the principles involved in the design and evaluation of management and cost accounting information systems. The emphasis in the book is on management accounting systems - those that are used to accumulate, classify, summarize and report information that will be used for internal decision-making purposes within an organisation. However, cost accounting systems, that record cost information for external reporting and internal profit measurement purposes, are also comprehensively covered. This new edition has been brought full up to date with the latest developments in the subject, is stronger pedagogically with the addition of answers to questions, and now contains more real-world mini-cases to bring home the relevance of the subject matter to the real world of business. About the Author Colin Drury BA MBA ACMA is Emeritus Professor at Huddersfield University and a leading textbook author for a generation of accounting students. His books have been widely recommended by the main professional accounting bodies for their examinations. He is an active researcher and published in the main peer-reviewed journals including Management Accounting Research and European Accounting Review, with his research focussing on the application of management accounting techniques in British industry.
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