Amazon.com description: Product Description: Building on the flexible and balanced approach that has made this text a market leader, the new edition of Financial Accounting provides a strong real-world emphasis, integrates performance measurement, and emphasizes technology.The text remains the most accurate on the market, with accuracy reviewers checking every line and working through every exercise in the text and supplements.The popular Focus on Business boxes, which relate accounting to the real world of business, have been updated and redesigned, and more than 35 of the features are new to this edition.Each learning objective includes a list of end-of-chapter Related Text Assignments so students can identify the questions, exercises, problems, and cases that are associated with particular learning objectives.This edition features three new video cases, bringing the total number of video cases to six. The videos are available on both the Student CD-ROM and the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM for instructors.The instructors' web site features a collection of 16 new essays--one for each chapter--that discuss current events and issues. Each essay comes with two sets of questions--one set that students can answer by reading the essay, and a second set that requires students to do additional research.