Overview of accounting and financial statements; accounting as the language of business; there is more to accounting than meets the eye; the accounting process; using and understanding the basic financial statements; the balance sheet; the income statement; the statement of cash flows; analyzing and understanding corporate financial reports; measuring and reporting assets and equities using generally accepted accounting principles; trade receivables and marketable securities; inventories and cost of goods sold; active investments and business communications; noncurrent assets - fixed assets, intangible assets and natural resources; accounting of liabilities - basic concepts, payables, accurals, and interest-bearing debt; leases, retirement benefit, and deferred income taxes; owners' equity; financial reporting in two other countries; communication corporate value.
- ISBN10 0256167133
- ISBN13 9780256167139
- Publish Date 20 January 1997 (first published 1 July 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2001
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint Irwin Professional Publishing
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 832
- Language English