Financial and Managerial Accounting
Dedicated to helping instructors stay on top of the change curve, the new edition of Financial & Managerial Accounting offers balanced, flexible content supported by an array of truly integrated print and technology supplements. Because most students using the text are business majors, it focuses on the business relevance of accounting with an emphasis on decision making and analysis. The text, which assumes no previous training in accounting or business, contains 50 percent financial...
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Needles/Powers/Crosson delivers interactive pedagogy by illustrating accounting principles and real-world examples to encourage critical thinking. This revision is based on an understanding of the nature, culture, and motivations of today's students and on extensive feedback from instructors. These substantial changes meet the needs of students, who not only face a business world increasingly complicated by ethical issues, globalization, and technology but also have more demands on their time. To help them meet these challenges, this textbook shows students how business transactions, which are the result of business decisions, are recorded in a way to show their effects on the financial statements. Built on historically strong pedagogy, this edition demonstrates strengthened transaction analysis and its link to the accounting cycle. Proven Presentation: Students learn from a trusted approach built on proper accounting principles and technical detail to ensure mastery of core accounting concepts. Relevant Coverage: Chapter-opening Decision Points have been enhanced to expose students to the changing financial reporting environment and IFRS. Critical-Thinking Tools: New Stop & Think features help students develop the judgment skills they need in the modern business world. Needles/Powers/Crosson demonstrates accounting in motion!
1. Uses of Accounting Information and the Financial Statements. Supplement: How To Read An Annual Report. CVS Corporation Annual Report. Southwest Airline Co. Financial Statements. 2. Analyzing Business Transactions. 3. Measuring Business Income. Supplement: Closing Entries and the Work Sheet. 4. Financial Reporting and Analysis. Supplement: The Annual Report Project 5. The Operating Cycle and Merchandising Operations. 6. Inventories. 7. Cash and Receivables. 8. Current Liabilities and Fair Value Accounting. 9. Long-Term Assets. 10. Long-Term Liabilities. 11. Contributed Capital. 12. Investments 13. The Corporate Income Statement and the Statement of Stockholders' Equity. 14. The Statement of Cash Flows. 15. The Changing Business Environment: A Manager's Perspective. 16. Cost Concepts and Cost Allocation. 17. Costing Systems: Job Order. 18. Costing Systems: Process Costing. 19. Value-Based Systems: ABM and Lean. 20. Cost Behavior Analysis. 21. The Budgeting Process. 22. Performance Management and Evaluation. 23. Standard Costing and Variance Analysis. 24. Short-Run Decision Analysis. 25. Capital Investment Analysis. 26. Pricing Decisions, Including Target Costing and Transfer Pricing. 27. Quality Management and Measurement. 28. Financial Analysis of Performance. Appendix A: Accounting for Investments. Appendix B: Present Value Tables.
