Includes indexes.

Nature of a Business -- The Role of Accounting in Business -- Business Ethics -- Profession of Accounting -- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles -- Assets, Liabilities, and Owners' Equity -- Business Transactions and the Accounting Equation -- Financial Statements -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Analyzing Transactions -- Usefulness of an Account -- Characteristics of an Account -- Analyzing and Summarizing Transactions in Accounts -- Illustration of Analyzing and Summarizing Transactions -- Trial Balance -- Discovery and Correction of Errors -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- The Matching Concept and the Adjusting Process -- The Matching Concept -- Nature of the Adjusting Process -- Recording Adjusting Entries -- Summary of Adjustment Process -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Completing the Accounting Cycle -- Financial Statements -- Adjusting and Closing Entries -- Accounting Cycle -- Fiscal Year -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Reversing Entries -- Comprehensive Problem 1 -- Practice Set: Tom's Asphalt Sealing -- Accounting Systems and Internal Controls -- Basic Accounting Systems -- Internal Control -- Manual Accounting Systems -- Adapting Manual Accounting Systems -- Computerized Accounting Systems -- Accounting for Merchandising Businesses -- Nature of Merchandising Businesses -- Accounting for Purchases -- Accounting for Sales -- Transportation Costs -- Illustration of Accounting for Merchandise Transactions -- Chart of Accounts for a Merchandising Business -- Income Statement for a Merchandising Business -- The Accounting Cycle for a Merchandising Business -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Accounting Systems for Merchandisers -- Work Sheet and Adjusting and Closing Entries for a Merchandising Business -- Comprehensive Problem 2 -- Practice Set: The Snow Shop -- Practice Set: Hazzard Travel -- Cash -- Nature of Cash and the Importance of Controls Over Cash -- Control of Cash Receipts -- Internal Control of Cash Payments -- Bank Accounts: Their Nature and Use as a Control Over Cash -- Bank Reconciliation -- Petty Cash -- Presentation of Cash on the Balance Sheet -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Receivables -- Classification of Receivables -- Internal Control of Receivables -- Uncollectible Receivables -- Allowance Method of Accounting for Uncollectibles -- Direct Write-Off Method of Accounting for Uncollectibles -- Characteristics of Notes Receivable -- Accounting for Notes Receivable -- Receivables on the Balance Sheet -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Discounting Notes Receivable -- Inventories -- Internal Control of Inventories -- Effect of Inventory Errors on Financial Statements -- Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions -- Inventory Costing Methods Under a Perpetual Inventory System -- Inventory Costing Methods Under a Periodic Inventory System -- Comparing Inventory Costing Methods -- Valuation of Inventory at Other than Cost -- Presentation of Merchandise Inventory on the Balance Sheet -- Estimating Inventory Cost -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Fixed Assets and Intangible Assets -- Nature of Fixed Assets -- Accounting for Depreciation -- Capital and Revenue Expenditures -- Disposal of Fixed Assets -- Leasing Fixed Assets -- Internal Control of Fixed Assets -- Natural Resources -- Intangible Assets -- Financial Reporting for Fixed Assets and Intangible Assets -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Sum-of-the-Years-Digits Depreciation -- Current Liabilities -- The Nature of Current Liabilities -- Short-Term Notes Payable -- Contingent Liabilities -- Payroll and Payroll Taxes -- Accounting Systems for Payroll and Payroll Taxes -- Employees' Fringe Benefits -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Comprehensive Problem 3 -- Practice Set: The Coddled Canine -- Corporations: Organization, Capital Stock Transactions, and Dividends -- Nature of a Corporation -- Stockholders' Equity -- Sources of Paid-In Capital -- Issuing Stock -- Treasury Stock Transactions -- Stock Splits -- Accounting for Dividends -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Corporations: Income and Taxes, Stockholders' Equity, and Investments in Stocks -- Corporate Income Taxes -- Unusual Items that Affect the Income Statement -- Earnings per Common Share -- Reporting Stockholders' Equity -- Comprehensive Income -- Accounting for Investments in Stocks -- Business Combinations -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Practice Set: Nina Decorating House -- Practice Set: First Designs, Inc. -- Bonds Payable and Investments in Bonds -- Financing Corporations -- Characteristics of Bonds Payable -- The Present-Value Concept and Bonds Payable -- Accounting for Bonds Payable -- Bond Sinking Funds -- Bond Redemption -- Investments in Bonds -- Corporation Balance Sheet -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Effective Interest Rate Method of Amortization -- Comprehensive Problem 4 -- Statement of Cash Flows -- Purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows -- Reporting Cash Flows -- Statement of Cash Flows--The Indirect Method -- Statement of Cash Flows--The Direct Method -- Financial Analysis and Interpretation -- Work Sheet for Statement of Cash Flows -- Financial Statement Analysis -- Basic Analytical Procedures -- Solvency Analysis -- Profitability Analysis -- Summary of Analytical Measures -- Corporate Annual Reports -- Introduction to Managerial Accounting and Job Order Cost Systems -- The Differences Between Managerial and Financial Accounting -- The Management Accountant in the Organization -- Manufacturing Cost Terms -- Cost Accounting System Overview -- Job Order Cost Systems for Manufacturing Businesses -- Job Order Costing for Decision Making -- Job Order Cost Systems for Professional Service Businesses -- Practice Set: Sunblaze Inc. -- Process Cost Systems -- Comparing Job Order Costing and Process Costing -- Physical Flows and Cost Flows for a Process Manufacturer -- The First-In, First-Out (Fifo) Method -- Bringing It All Together: The Cost of Production Report -- Journal Entries for a Process Cost System -- Using the Cost of Production Report for Decision Making -- Just-in-Time Processing -- Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis -- Cost Behavior -- Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships -- Mathematical Approach to Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis -- Graphic Approach to Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis -- Sales Mix Considerations -- Special Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships -- Assumptions of Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis -- Variable Costing -- Budgeting -- Nature and Objectives of Budgeting -- Budgeting Systems -- Master Budget -- Income Statement Budgets -- Balance Sheet Budgets -- Performance Evaluation Using Variances from Standard Costs -- Standards -- Budgetary Performance Evaluation -- Direct Materials Variances -- Direct Labor Variances -- Factory Overhead Variances -- Recording and Reporting Variances from Standards -- Standards for Nonmanufacturing Expenses -- Nonfinancial Performance Measures -- Performance Evaluation for Decentralized Operations -- Centralized and Decentralized Operations -- Responsibility Accounting for Cost Centers -- Responsibility Accounting for Profit Centers -- Responsibility Accounting for Investment Centers -- Transfer Pricing -- Differential Analysis and Product Pricing -- Differential Analysis -- Setting Normal Product Selling Prices -- Product Profitability and Pricing Under Production Bottlenecks -- Activity-Based Costing -- Capital Investment Analysis -- Nature of Capital Investment Analysis -- Methods of Evaluating Capital Investment Proposals -- Factors That Complicate Capital Investment Analysis -- Capital Rationing -- Interest Tables -- Codes of Professional Ethics for Accountants -- Alternative Methods of Recording Deferrals -- Periodic Inventory Systems for Merchandising Businesses -- Foreign Currency Transactions -- Partnerships -- Cisco Systems, Inc., Annual Report.

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