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Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions

ISBN10: 126412726X | ISBN13: 9781264127269

Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
ISBN10: 126412726X
ISBN13: 9781264127269
By John Wild

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Wild, Financial Accounting Information for Decisions responds to the market's request for a book that prepares students for our modern work force.  The text takes a practical approach that engages majors and non-majors with content that is presented in organized learning blocks ending with need-to-know examples, making it easy for students to find the most relevant content needed to solve problems. Chapter opening vignettes use dynamic, well-known entrepreneurs and corporations to appeal to all students and show the relevance of accounting. Students are encouraged to think like a businessperson and apply what they learn. A wide variety of assignments provide instructors with flexibility to teach, assess, and challenge students on several levels. Financial Accounting Information for Decisions focuses on decision making and analysis, and uses the periodic inventory system, which is unique to the franchise.  Join your colleagues and the millions of students that have used this best-selling learning system to advance their education and careers.

Chapter 1: Introducing Financial Statements  
Chapter 2: Financial Statements and the Accounting System 
Chapter 3: Adjusting Accounts for Financial Statements  
Chapter 4: Reporting and Analyzing Merchandising Operations  
Chapter 5: Reporting and Analyzing Inventories 
Chapter 6: Reporting and Analyzing Cash, Fraud, and Internal Control  
Chapter 7: Reporting and Analyzing Receivables  
Chapter 8: Reporting and Analyzing Long Term Assets  
Chapter 9: Reporting and Analyzing Current Liabilities  
Chapter 10: Reporting and Analyzing Long Term Liabilities  
Chapter 11: Reporting and Analyzing Equity  
Chapter 12: Reporting and Analyzing Cash Flows  
Chapter 13; Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statements  
Appendix A: Financial Statement Information  
Appendix B: Time Value of Money  
Appendix C: Investments  

About the Author

John Wild

JOHN J. WILD is a distinguished professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He previously held appointments at Michigan State University and the University of Manchester in England. He received his BBA, MS, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.

John teaches accounting courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received numerous teaching honors, including the Mabel W. Chipman Excellence-in-Teaching Award and the departmental Excellence-in-Teaching Award, and he is a two-time recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award from business graduates at the University of Wisconsin. He also received the Beta Alpha Psi and Roland F. Salmonson Excellence-in-Teaching Award from Michigan State University. John has received several research honors, is a past KPMG Peat Marwick National Fellow, and is a recipient of fellowships from the American Accounting Association and the Ernst and Young Foundation.

John is an active member of the American Accounting Association and its sections. He has served on several committees of these organizations, including the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, Wildman Award, National Program Advisory, Publications, and Research Committees. John is author of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and College Accounting, all published by McGraw-Hill Education. 

John’s research articles on accounting and analysis appear in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting and Economics; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; and other journals. He is past associate editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and has served on several editorial boards including The Accounting Review.

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