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- Book: Accounting in the Finance World
- 1: Why Is Financial Accounting Important?
- 2: What Should Decision-makers Know So That Good Decisions Can Be Made about an Organization?
- 3: In What Form Is Financial Information Actually Delivered to Decision Makers Such as Investors and Creditors?
- 4: How Does an Organization Accumulate and Organize the Information Necessary to Prepare Financial Statements?
- 5: Why Must Financial Information Be Adjusted Prior to the Production of Financial Statements?
- 6: Why Should Decision Makers Trust Financial Statements?
- 7: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Receivables?
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Book: Financial Accounting
- 1: Why Is Financial Accounting Important?
- 02: What Should Decision-makers Know So That Good Decisions Can Be Made about an Organization?
- 3: In What Form Is Financial Information Actually Delivered to Decision Makers Such as Investors and Creditors?
- 4: How Does an Organization Accumulate and Organize the Information Necessary to Prepare Financial Statements?
- 5: Why Must Financial Information Be Adjusted Prior to the Production of Financial Statements?
- 6: Why Should Decision Makers Trust Financial Statements?
- 7: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Receivables?
- 8: How Does a Company Gather Information about Its Inventory?
- 9: Why Does a Company Need a Cost Flow Assumption in Reporting Inventory?
- 9.1: The Necessity of Adopting a Cost Flow Assumption
- 9.2: The Selection of a Cost Flow Assumption for Reporting Purposes
- 9.3: Problems with Applying LIFO
- 9.4: Merging Periodic and Perpetual Inventory Systems with a Cost Flow Assumption
- 9.5: Applying LIFO and Averaging to Determine Reported Inventory Balances
- 9.6: Analyzing Reported Inventory Figures
- 9.7: End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 10: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Property and Equipment?
- 10.1: The Reporting of Property and Equipment
- 10.2: Determining Historical Cost and Depreciation Expense
- 10.3: Recording Depreciation Expense for a Partial Year
- 10.4: Alternative Depreciation Patterns and the Recording of a Wasting Asset
- 10.5: Recording Asset Exchanges and Expenditures That Affect Older Assets
- 10.6: Reporting Land Improvements and Impairments in the Value of Property and Equipment
- 10.7: End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 11: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Intangible Assets?
- 12: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Equity Investments?
- 13: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Current and Contingent Liabilities?
- 14: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Noncurrent Liabilities Such as Bonds?
- 15: In Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Other Noncurrent Liabilities?
- 16: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Shareholders’ Equity?
- 17: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed by the Statement of Cash Flows?
- 2: What Should Decision-makers Know So That Good Decisions Can Be Made about an Organization?
- Book: Managerial Accounting (OpenStax)
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Accounting
Accounting is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.