Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 2nd Edition [Hardcover]

This exciting, practical introduction arms readers with a practical set of tools, and the confidence to use those tools effectively in making business decisions. It begins with a macro view of accounting information by presenting real financial statements. The authors clearly establish how a financial statement communicates the financing, operating, and investing activities of a business.

This user-friendly book teaches readers fundamental accounting procedures with an emphasis on the relationship between the procedural detail and the fundamental accounting equation. It gives readers the conceptual and procedural accounting tools they need in order to make sound internal and external business decisions. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting form the University of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has public accounting experience with Deloitte he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. Recently he received the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educator's Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Donald Kieso, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. He has served as chairman of the Department of Accountancy and is currently the KPMG Peat Marwick Emeritus Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. He has public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse in 1992 he received the FSA's Joseph A. Silvoso Award of Merit and the NIU Foundation's Humanitarian Award for Service to Higher Education; and in 1995 he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois CPA Society.