Study Guide for use with Financial Accounting [Paperback]

This essential study guide includes a review of each chapter, an explanation of the learning objectives, more multiple-choice problems, and exercises with solutions. The Guide gives you an understanding of the presented material and reinforces what you are learning in the Libby Financial Accounting textbook

Bob Libby is the David A. Thomas Professor of Management in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Bob has a national reputation as a leading academician and is one of the top five behavioral accountants in North America. Bob teaches MBA and Executive MBA courses in Financial Accounting at Cornell. Please note: Bob Libby is teaching at Univ. of Texas at Austin through June 1, 1999. Pat Libby is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research activities focus on how to use cases in introductory accounting and on using Collaborative Learning techniques in the classroom. She teaches undergraduate introductory, intermediate, and advanced Financial Accounting at Ithaca. Dan Short is the Dean of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University. Prior to that he was the Dean of the Business School at Kansas State University and prior to that he taught at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has won numerous teaching awards during his career teaching both undergraduate and MBA financial accounting courses.

Pat Libby is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research activities focus on how to use cases in introductory accounting and on using Collaborative Learning techniques in the classroom. She teaches undergraduate introductory, intermediate, and advanced Financial Accounting at Ithaca.

Dan Short is the Dean of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University. Prior to that he was the Dean of the Business School at Kansas State University and prior to that he taught at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has won numerous teaching awards during his career teaching both undergraduate and MBA financial accounting courses.

George Kanaan is Associate Dean at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. George teaches the introductory financial accounting course. He previously taught undergraduate and graduate courses at McMaster University. He received his B.A. from the Lebanese University, his M.A. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has conducted research on disclosures related to pension accounting, deferred income taxes, and the effects of changing prices. His research has been published in The Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Managerial Finance. During his tenure as chair of the Department of Accountancy, The John Molson School of Business became the first Canadian business school to receive accreditation of its accounting programs by the AACSB – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Maureen Gowing is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. Maureen has taught undergraduate accounting theory and graduate financial and managerial accounting courses. She has extensive experience in the oil and securities industries, and worked for several years as a financial analyst. She also worked at the Vancouver Stock Exchange doing forensic accounting. She received her B.A. from Carleton University, her M.B.A from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. from the School of Business at Queen's University. She received an award of excellence in 1998 from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) for her dissertation. Maureen conducts research in ethics and hospital cost management, the activity processes and cost analysis in trauma care across Canada. She has also been examining the effectiveness of technological and pedagogical strategies in the teaching of accounting. She has published in academic journals, and in the proceedings of national and international conferences in aviation, accounting, and education.