Accounting in the Finance World
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This book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence, utilizing the Socratic method of asking and answering questions.
Front Matter
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?
8: How Does a Company Gather Information about Its Inventory?
9: Why Does a Company Need a Cost Flow Assumption in Reporting Inventory?
10: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Property and Equipment?
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?
Back Matter
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