Introduces accounting basics, and discusses bookkeeping, taxes, assets, cash flow, profit, and financial reports.

This beginner's guide to accounting shows readers how to keep the books for businesses, investments, and taxes, covering a wide range of issues, from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to the latest reporting standards for large corporations.

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The leading choice in college accounting, Heintz and Parry's COLLEGE ACCOUNTING, 22E combines a step-by-step approach and excellent examples with a tightly integrated online homework tool that makes accounting understandable to every student, regardless of their accounting background or business experience. Well-known for its clarity, accuracy, and accompanying technology, this book focuses on practical skills students need to transition from the classroom to the workplace. This edition is now fully integrated with the expanded CengageNOWv2™ course management and online homework tool. CengageNOWv2™ includes chapter problems, an Adaptive Study plan, and eBook as well as Show Me How Videos, enhanced feedback, animated eConcepts, demonstration problems, and Cengage Learning General Ledger Software. With more practice opportunities and independent study resources, including InfoTrac Student Collections, this edition delivers the tools students need to succeed.

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: THE IMPACT ON DECISION MAKERS, Ninth Edition, is packed with decades of academic and real-world accounting experience. This text provides the appropriate blend of academic rigor with step-by-step learning and decision-making models that reach today's students and equip them with the skills they need to be effective decision makers and future business leaders. Instead of an abstract approach to accounting, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: THE IMPACT ON DECISION MAKERS takes students through recognizable focus companies and their specific financial data and business strategies, imparting students with real-life experience and a model to hone the skills necessary to making important decisions. This edition features three key models that provide students with a more structured approach to understanding financial data and how it is used to make sound business decisions. The Transaction Analysis Model helps students see the effects an economic event has on the accounting equation and financial statements. The Financial Decision Framework focuses on ratio analysis and financial decisions, and the Ethical Decision Model helps students apply ethical judgment when applying accounting principles. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: THE IMPACT ON DECISION MAKERS, Ninth Edition, will not only help your students learn and understand core accounting rules and procedures but it will also give them a framework through which they can apply their knowledge to make effective business decisions.