Financial Accounting : Information for Decisions

by Ingram, Robert W.; Baldwin, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780324069549
• ISBN10: 0324069545
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-28
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

In this inspired new edition, the authors illustrate accounting not as a set of technical procedures to be memorized, but as a way of identifying and understanding business problems and a means for evaluating potential solutions. Now in its fourth edition, the primary goal of this text remains the same-teach readers to understand the impact of accounting information on a company's financial statements. This unique organization introduces readers to the accounting information system and then emphasizes accounting for the activities of the firm in the second half of the book. This engages readers in the type of financing, investing and operating decisions that a firm has to make. The approach is especially ideal for readers who will become users of accounting information because concepts-not procedures-are emphasized.

Table of Contents

The Accounting Information System	1	(294)
Accounting and Organizations	2	(46)
Information in Organizations	48	(44)
Accounting Measurement	92	(46)
Processing Accounting Information	138	(57)
The Database Environment: A Demonstration Case	189	(6)
Reporting Accounting Information	195	(57)
Financial Reporting: The Statement of Cash Flows	252	(43)
Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Accounting Information	295
The Time Value of Money	296	(33)
Financing Activities	329	(40)
Analysis of Financing Activities	369	(36)
Investing Activities	405	(42)
Analysis of Investing Activities	447	(35)
Operating Activities	482	(46)
Analysis of Operating Activities	528
Appendix A Sources of Information about Companies and Industries	A1	(1)
Appendix B General Mills, Inc. Annual Report	A3	(1)
Glossary	G1	(1)
Index	I1