Financial Accounting

by Weygandt, Jerry J.; Kimmel, Paul D., Ph.D.; Kieso, Donald E., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9781118334324
• ISBN10: 1118334329
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-25
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

Weygandt's Financial Accounting, 9th Edition offers a more in-depth introduction to financial accounting with a continued focus on relevant examples based on everyday life. The goal of this text is to help readers further understand the fundamental concepts necessary to use accounting effectively today, as well as an introduction to IFRS and how to use accounting in the future. Kimmel, Weygandt and Kieso present real financial statements and establish how a financial statement communicates the financing, investing, and operating activities of a business to users of accounting information.

Table of Contents

1. Accounting in Action

2. The Recording Process

3. Adjusting the Accounts

4. Completing the Accounting Cycle

5. Accounting for Merchandising Operations  

6. Inventories 

7. Fraud, Internal Control, and Cash

8. Accounting for Receivables

9. Plant Assets, Natural Resources, and Intangible Assets

10. Liabilities

11. Corporations: Organization, stock Transactions, Dividends, and Retained Earnings

12. Investments

13. Statement of Cash Flows

14. Financial Statement Analysis

Appendix A. Specimen Financial Statements: PepsiCo, Inc.

Appendix B. Specimen Financial Statements: The Coca-Cola Company

Appendix C. Specimen Financial Statements: Zetar

Appendix D. Time Value of Money

Appendix E. Payroll Accounting

Appendix F. Subsidiary Ledgers and Special Journals

Appendix G. Other Significant Liabilities