Accounting Information For Business Decisions, Volume Ii, Chapters 15-24, Preliminary Edition - 99 edition

Summary: Accounting Information for Business Decisions offers an integrated approach to teaching management and financial accounting topics for the two-semester and three-quarter course. This new text is designed to help students understand how to use managment and financial accounting information for decision making. Class-tested for two years, its student-friendly style has already earned it rave reviews. The text provides an introduction to business in Chapter 1 and is the ...show more only book to have an entire chapter (chapter 2) devoted to creative and critical thinking. A non-technical approach makes learning accounting accessible for majors and non majors, focuses students on using accounting information for decision making, and conforms with AECC guidelines for teaching accounting. Key Features

• This text thoroughly integrates management accounting topics with financial accounting topics.
• The first nine chapters text detail starting and operating a small sole-proprietorship (a retail candy store) and chapters 10
• through 24 guide students through the operations of a more complex company (a candy manufacturer).
• Chapter 1 provides students with an introduction to the operations of a business, the business environment, and the types of
• information the accounting system provides for use in internal and external decision making.
• Chapter 2 is devoted to creative and critical thinking-the only text on the market to offer an entire chapter on this subject.
• "Stop" questions throughout the chapters challenge students to stop reading periodically and think about an issue or
• speculate about the possible outcomes of given situations.
• Information and analysis of real world companies, business issues and values, and international issues are integrated
• throughout the text.
• End of Chapter material is organized in progressing levels of difficulty to develop students' critical thinking skills.
• Problems without right or wrong answers are included to focus students on the approaches or processes used to solve
• problems, rather than outcomes.
• Emphasis is placed on using T-accounts to record transactions in an accounting system, with the accounting equation as the
• focus of explanation. Debits and credits, journal entries, and the accounting cycle are covered in an appendix to the text.
• "Summary Surfing" questions at the end of chapters give students the opportunity to get and evaluate information on the Internet.

Edition/Copyright: 99
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Dryden Press
Published: 01/28/1999

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Cunningham, Billie M. : University of Missouri - Columbia

Nikolai, Loren A. : University of Missouri - Columbia

Bazley, John D. : University of Denver

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VI. Managing, Reporting, And Evaluating Operations In A Corporate Environment

15. Short-Term Planning Decisions
16. Inventory and Operations
17. Inventory and Control
18. Modern Developments in Managing Operations
19. Reporting Inventory

VII. Managing, Reporting, And Evaluating Noncurrent Assets In A Corporate Environment

20. Capital Expenditure Decisions
21. Reporting Property, Plant, and Equipment, and Intangibles

VIII. Managing, Reporting, And Evaluating Long-Term Financing And Investing Activities In A Corporate Environment

22. Long-Term Debt and Other Financing Issues
23. Investments in Stocks and Bonds of Other Companies
24. Corporate Stock and Earnings Issues

Appendix A: The Profession of Accountancy
Appendix B: Recording, Storing, and Summarizing Accounting Information