For courses in Introductory Accounting. Core Concepts of Accounting captures the full text (but not the programmed approach) of Essentials of Accounting, while including important accounting concepts and terms.
Key Features
- Complete Glossary of Terms: This text can be used either to review the meaning of an accounting term or to review an entire topic. The easiest way to review a term is to look it up in the Glossary. However, if you want to review a whole topic, you can refer to the Table of Contents for the part and section in which the topic is discussed.
Contents - Part 1: Basic Concepts
- Part 2: Balance Sheet Changes; Income Measurement
- Part 3: Accounting Records and Systems
- Part 4: Revenues and Monetary Assets
- Part 5: Expense Measurement; The Income Statement
- Part 6: Inventories and Cost of Sales
- Part 7: Noncurrent Assets and Depreciation
- Part 8: Liabilities and Equity
- Part 9: Statement of Cash Flows
- Part 10: Analysis of Financial Statements
- Part 11: Nonprofit Financial Statements
- Part 12: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
New To This Edition
- NEW! Additional Cases. This edition features added cases in every chapter so there are at least three cases found in each chapter of the text.
- NEW! Revised Chapter on IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards).
- Updated! The dates in this edition have been updated to reflect the current time period.
About the Author
- Robert N. Anthony is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Control (Emeritus) at Harvard Business School, and a trustee of both Colby College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. A former President of the American Accounting Association, Dr. Anthony has also been Assistant Secretary of Defense, Controller. He has received awards including "Outstanding Accounting Educator" from the American Accounting Hall of Fame.
- Leslie K. Breitner, D.B.A., and Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches financial management, financial statement analysis, and management control for government and nonprofit organizations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In addition, Dr. Breitner has developed and taught an online financial management course for a master's program in health care management at Seton Hall University. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School she was a full-time member of the faculty in the Graduate School for Health Studies, Health Care Administration Program at Simmons College. She received her doctorate from the Departments of Accounting and Health Care Management at Boston University's Graduate School of Management.
Book Details
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 11 edition (February 3, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132744392
- ISBN-13: 978-0132744393
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
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