Many of today's introductory courses are geared for business students in general, and they are becoming increasingly user-oriented. As a result, some instructors are finding that their financial accounting courses are not properly preparing accounting students for intermediate courses. Fortunately, J. Edward Ketz has developed an innovative solution that bridges the gap. His new text guides students through the mechanics of accounting, providing a firm foundation for courses that follow as well as professional practice. Clearly written and filled with helpful pedagogy, the text covers financial statements, bookkeeping, accounting information systems, technology, auditing, and more.

Bridge Accounting: Procedures, Systems, and Controls

Business & Money

Ketz, J. Edward

Accounting

wiley

Bridge Accounting: Procedure Systems and Controls with Financial Accounting Tutor 5.0 Package

An insider's guide to understanding and eliminating accounting fraud How do these high-profile accounting scandals occur and what could have been done to prevent them. Hidden Financial Risk fills that void by examining methods for off balance sheet accounting, with a particular emphasis on special purpose entities (SPE), the accounting ruse of choice at Enron and other beleaguered companies. J. Edward Ketz identifies the incentives for managers to deceive investors and creditors about financial risk and also shows investors how to protect their investments in a world filled with accounting and auditing frauds. J. Edward Ketz, PhD (State College, PA) is MBA Faculty Director and Associate Professor of Accounting at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He has been cited in the press nearly 300 times since Enron's bankruptcy, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.. He has a regular column in Accounting Today.

Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off Balance Sheet Accounting

Business Culture

For each accounting cycle, the author discusses the functions of the cycle, the source documents to the cycle, who processes what, the outputs of the cycle, and document flow charts.

Bridge Accounting: Procedures Systems and Controls and Financial Accounting Tutor, 3 Set

Bridge Accounting: Procedures, Systems, and Controls with Financial Accounting Tutor 6.0

1. An Overview of Financial Accounting and Auditing 2. The Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Statement of Changes in Stockholder's Equity 3. The Accounting Cycle 4. Further Aspects of the Accounting Cycle 5. The Cash Flow Statement 6. Fundamentals of Accounting Information Systems 7. Fundamentals of Internal Control Systems 8. The General Ledger Cycle 9. The Revenue Cycle 10. The Expenditure Cycle 11. Payroll, Facilities, Investments, Financing, and Production Cycles 12. Recognition, Measurement, and Disclosure Issues

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Whether used as predictors or indicators of stock prices, financial risk, merger candidates, or bond yields, financial ratios have been, and continue to be, a popular tool for analyzing a firm and its performance. Practitioners and academics who employ financial ratios often compare and contrast across several industries, but such evaluations assume that the ratios of one industry measure the same underlying concepts as the ratios of another. This book provides evidence on the comparability of financial ratios across several industries, assessing the similarity or dissimilarity of ratios among industry taxonomies, or groups of ratios.
Extending previous studies that focused primarily on manufacturing firms, this work surveys a wide variety of both manufacturing and retail corporations, and determines the classification patterns of their respective financial ratios. The taxonomies of thirty two ratios, in seven representative industries, are examined for the ten-year period from 1978 through 1987. Two introductory chapters detail the nature of the research, the data utilized, variables employed, and statistical methodologies, as well as providing a brief summary of the results. A third chapter furnishes results for the entire economy by factors of return, cash flow, cash position, inventory, sales, liquidity, and debt; while seven separate chapters describe the study's conclusions for each of the primary industries: automobile and aerospace; chemical, rubber, and oil; electronics; food; retail; steel; and textile. The work concludes with a summary of the study and its conclusions, and an examination of the limitations of this type of research and possibilities for its extension. This book will be a valuable practical resource for accounting and finance professionals, as well as an important reference for courses in finance, accounting, and management. Public, academic, and business libraries will also find it a useful addition to their collections.

A Cross-Industry Analysis of Financial Ratios: Comparabilities and Corporate Performance

Doogar, Rajib K.

Jensen, David E.

Finance

Praeger

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