Product Description

The leading programmed text in accounting, Essentials of Accounting is a self-teaching, self-paced introduction to financial accounting for active users of business data.

 Basic Concepts; Balance Sheet Changes: Income Measurement; Accounting Records and Systems; Revenues and Monetary Assets; Expense Measurement: The Income Statement; Inventories and Cost of Sales; Noncurrent Assets and Depreciation; Liabilities and Equities; Statement of Cash Flows; Analysis of Financial Statements; Nonprofit Financial Statements; International Financial Reporting Standards

MARKET: For active users of business data who want to expand their knowledge or refresh their skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52056 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Review

"This book will be of great value to corporate management trainees, as well as to business school students who want to 'hit the ground running.'" — Professor Jonathan B. Schiff, Fairleigh Dickinson University

"We have effectively used Essentials of Accounting in our introductory graduate level course in financial accounting. Dr. Anthony is clearly one of the leading academics in our field and has demonstrated an ability to communicate a difficult body of knowledge to generations of accounting students." — Professor Steven Lilien, Baruch College

"Essentials of Accounting serves as an indispensable tool for teaching and as a guidebook for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of accounting in an easy, highly interactive way. It is simply the best." — Professor Philip DiSalvio, Seton Hall University

From the Back Cover
The leading programmed reference in accounting, this book is a self-teaching, self-paced introduction to financial accounting that presents the ideas and terminology essential to an understanding of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows. It includes important accounting concepts and terms, a clear explanation of financial statements, the use of financial accounting information, and a comprehensive glossary of over 500 key accounting terms. Other key topics include accounting records and systems, revenues and monetary assets, inventories and cost of sales, noncurrent assets and depreciation, and liabilities and equity. For active users of business data.

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.

Customer Reviews

Perfect as an introduction book!
The book is required in our class of Finance as an introduction to the accounting system. It's quite easy to understand all the principles by doing the exercises yourself. And the special design of reverse printing and post tests are a big help. I had accounting class before and was often confused with debits and credits of whatever assets or liablities and equity. However, when I'm doing this book, everything is clear - there's considerable details to explain how to debit or credit any accounts. Simple introduction of non-profit organizations' financial statement also quite useful. Strongly recommended.

highly recomended
I used this book in a analyst training program in Wall Street. It is an excellent summary of Accounting 001. Clear, short and precise for people who want to grasp relatively quickly the topic.

Excellent book for beginner
This book is perfect for a person who has a general understanding of bookkeeping but wants to know more about accounting. It makes a good review for a person who uses financial statements but does not prepare them. It is a workbook, so the reader answers questions on each page. This encourages retention of information.