Accounting

Features the latest information on accounting methods and standards, and explains how to avoid fraud, analyze profits, prepare financial reports, manage budgets, and determine product costs.

Main Authors: Tracy, John A. (Author), Tracy, Tage C. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]
Edition: 7th edition.
Series: --For dummies.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Opening the books on accounting. Accounting in today's new economy ; Introducing financial statements ; Safeguarding company assets ; Accounting in the digital age ; Recognizing the legal and accounting entity
  • Part 2: Exploring financial statements. Reporting profit or loss in the income statement ; Reporting financial condition in the balance sheet ; Reporting cash sources and uses in the statement of cash flows ; Financial accounting issues
  • Part 3: Understanding financial reports, financial statements, and financial information. Producing financial reports ; Deciphering a financial report ; Analyzing financial information with ratios ; Generating internal financial information for management use ; Applying Wall Street's tricks and treats to engineer financial results
  • Part 4: Leveraging accounting in managing a business. Analyzing profit ; Accounting for costs ; Preparing best-in-class forecasts, projections, and budgets ; Capitalizing a business : how, when, why, and what
  • Part 5: The part of tens. Ten tips for managers ; Ten tips for reading a financial report.