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 | Accounting: Information for Business Decisions, Solutions Manual, vol 1, chapters 1-14 Product# 458503422 Selling for $31.95 "Accounting: Information for Business Decisions offers an integrated approach to teaching managerial and financial accounting course topics for the Introductory or Principles of Accounting course. This new text, written by an experienced author team, is designed to help students understand how to use both managerial and financial accounting information to make decisions. Class-tested for three years across the United States, its student-friendly approach has already earned it rave reviews. The text provides an introduction to business in Chapter 1 and is the only introductory accounting book to have an entire chapter (Chapter 2) devoted to creative and critical thinking. A non-technical approach makes learning accounting accessible for majors and non-majors, focuses students on using accounting information for decision making, and conforms with AECC guidelines for teaching accounting. A full-chapter length appendix on the accounting cycle (debits/credits) allows instructors to implement this portion of the course anywhere they desire." |
 | Computerized Accounting w/Simply Accounting v. 6.0 w/Software Update Product# 460544011 Selling for $103 "Step-by-step procedures, each extensively illustrated, introduce the material in each chapter to help increase student confidence and expertise in analyzing and entering transactions. End-of-chapter assignments provide reinforcement to the transactions presented within the chapter to help students gain proficiency in analyzing and recording transactions that parallel the chapter material. Practice sets—as cumulative reviews of material—are incorporated into the text at the end of each section." |
 | Understanding Annual Reports Product# 460548601 Selling for $48.51 "For your introductory financial accounting, intermediate accounting, and financial statement analysis courses, this project contains extensive instructions for obtaining and analyzing an annual report from a publicly traded corporation. It is also suitable for 'extra projects' in honors and MBA classes or for independent study projects." |
 | Accounting Information Systems Product# 460550781 Selling for $180 "Thorough and up-to-date, this book supports any of the most popular approaches to AIS: focus on transaction cycles and controls; focus on systems life cycle; focus on databases and data modeling; or focus on computer-based controls, fraud and auditing. The book begins with an overview and conceptual foundations then goes on to discuss control and audit of accounting information systems, accounting information systems applications, and the systems development process. For CPAs and corporate accountants." |
| Miller International Accounting Standards Guide 2001 Product# 460552643 Selling for $134 "This book delivers everything you need to know on promulgated International Accounting Standards. You'll find Interpretations issued by the International Accounting Standards Commission's (IASC) Standing Interpretations Committee and to-the-point analyses of IASC Exposure Drafts. Plus you'll find full explanation of the organization and structure of the IASC, including background on its constitution and its Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements." |
 | Microsoft Excel for Accounting: Auditing and AIS Product# 460679205 Selling for $28 "This comprehensive introduction provides readers with a review of the fundamental tools and techniques available in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software. The volume features Excel assignments that are designed to enable users to work more efficiently while enhancing their understanding of auditing and AIS concepts and increasing their computer fluency as they learn through experience by following directions and creating the example worksheets. The book provides detailed instruction for using Microsoft Excel and the applications presented pertain to specific topics covered in auditing and AIS. The authors examine computer basics, making a worksheet, formulas, functions, and formatting, charts, worksheet manipulation, database tools, macro commands, guidelines for worksheet design and provide a step-by-step Excel example. For accountants and business managers." |
 | Venture Capital Handbook: New and Revised Product# 460679721 Selling for $36.95 "Written by one of America's top venture capital executives, everything you need to know in order to raise venture capital is here: from how to select the right venture capital firm and make the best presentation to how to negotiate the best deal." |
 | Core Concepts of Accounting Information Systems Product# 460680319 Selling for $71 "This completely updated and revised paperback covers the basic concepts of Accounting Information Systems. It provides the latest information on the Internet, e-commerce, software, databases, and more." |
 | Cost Accounting: Principles and Applications, Text Product# 460680593 Selling for $127.38 "Cost Accounting provides comprehensive coverage of cost accounting principles and techniques in short learning segments that make it easier for students to learn and understand the material. In addition to a clear, concise writing style, carefully planned organization, and numerous illustrations, this new edition now offers an even more attractive design that enhances learning while maintaining student interest. A spreadsheet applications disk can be packaged with the text." |
 | Modern Advanced Accounting Product# 460683011 Selling for $145.55 "Larsen's Advanced Accounting provides complete and in-depth coverage of the topics typically taught in a one- or two- semester advanced accounting course. Faculty appreciate the current coverage of FASB and GASB regulations, the wealth of thorough end-of-chapter material, and the in-depth coverage. This flexible text is designed modularly; each part is self contained which allows instructors to only cover chapters that are appropriate for their class." |
| Student Software CD-ROM for use with Financial Accounting Product# 460683724 Selling for $44.22 "Not to be confused with Financial Accounting Partner, this CD contains four separate software applications: General Ledger Application Software, Peachtree Templates, Excel Templates, and links to online quizzes." |
 | Cases from the Sec Files: Topics in Auditing Product# 460684957 Selling for $53.33 "This casebook consists of 26 cases excerpted from the SEC Enforcement Division's releases for false and misleading financial statements, each containing valuable lessons to be learned about the possibility of financial statement fraud and how an auditor can go about finding such fraud. The real people, companies, and events of each case provide readers with an understanding of the practical applicability and real consequences of the book's discussions. A four-part organization examines professional responsibilities, internal control, specific accounts and areas, and cases covering multiple areas. For fraud examiners and those preparing for the CFE exam." |
 | S CORPORATION TAX GUIDE :PLANNING AND COMPLIANCE FOR TODAY'S PRACTITIONER (BOOK/WINDOWS DISK) Product# 460687639 Selling for $129 "Lucrative provisions within the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 will make S corporations more popular than ever before. In 1000 pages, Robert Jamison, CPA, Ph.D., guides readers through critical and complicated issues facing S corporations in the midst of drastic tax changes. The 1999 S Corporation Taxation Guide dissects routine and unusual transactions affecting S corporations and delivers hundreds of real-world examples. Everything you need to know about establishing or maintaining an S corporation tax structure is here. Buyers will also receive an easy-to-use disk packed with checklists, sample election letters, and worksheets at no extra costs. This time-saving tool even includes Subchapter S Code and regulations. Better yet, everything on the disk can be customized using Word and WordPerfect for Windows." |
 | 2001 Cpa's Guide to Effective Engagement Letters: Imlementing Successful Loss Prevention Practices Product# 460687643 Selling for $85 "We've included every type of engagement letter you could possibly need -- from audits, tax preparations, and payroll processing to business valuations and assurance services. And here's the best part: Every letter can be easily customized and printed from the FREE companion CD-ROM. This innovative resource features a new collection of case studies on liability issues that illustrate what to do -- and what not to do -- with your engagement letters. Covers Over 50 Types of Letters!" |
 | Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 3rd Edition Product# 460687890 Selling for $80 "Completely Updated, Over 200,000 Copies Sold! 'A ?Çÿhow-to?ÇÖ guide for corporate executives who want to get at the unrealized shareholder values trapped in public companies.' ?ÇôNew York Times THE #1 GUIDE TO CORPORATE VALUATION IS NOW BETTER THAN EVER! 'The book?ÇÖs clarity and comprehensive coverage make it one ofthe best practitioners?ÇÖ guides to valuation.' ?ÇôFinancial Times 'Should serve very well the professional manager who wants to do some serious thinking about what really does contribute value to his or her firm and why.' ?ÇôThe Journal of Finance 'Valuation is like a Swiss army knife . . . you will be prepared for just about any contingency.' ?ÇôMartin H. Dubilier, Chairman of the Board, Clayton & Dubilier, Inc. 'This book on valuation represents fresh new thinking. The writing is clear and direct, combining the best academic principles with actual experience to arrive at value-increasing solutions.' ?ÇôJ. Fred Weston, cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets, Graduate School of Management, UCLA" |
 | The 123s of ABC in SAP: Using SAP R/3 to Support Activity-Based Costing Product# 460688024 Selling for $90 "Incorporate the Benefits of Activity-Based Costing into the Efficiencies of Your SAP R/3 System Given SAP?ÇÖs dominance in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market, many companies and their managers encounter SAP AG applications in some form or another. Many of these organizations have recognized the value of utilizing Activity-Based Costing/Management concepts to perform more accurate cost assignments or drive performance initiatives. Managers are then faced with trying to determine how Activity-Based Costing can be incorporated into the SAP environment. The 123s of ABC in SAP is the first book of its kind designed to help business managers understand the capabilities of the SAP R/3 business application to support Activity-Based Costing, Management, and Budgeting. Divided into three parts?Çôthe conceptual foundation, the capabilities of SAP ABC, and integration with other tools?Çôthe book provides readers with the following: *An explanation of how Activity-Based Costing can be used with SAP *Helpful hints for implementing ABC into SAP *Insights into the most common difficulties and potential solutions when implementing ABC into SAP *Summary tables that highlight key decisions to be made, implementation hints, and organizational challenges *Detailed descriptions of SAP software applications to support the Activity-Based Costing approach as well as the integration of SAP R/3 with Oros software *Examples of the tandem usage of Resource Consumption Accounting with Activity-Based Costing" |
 | Value Investing: A Balanced Approach Product# 460688028 Selling for $34.95 "'Essential reading for anyone in today?ÇÖs turbulent markets.' ?ÇôJeffrey E. Garten, Dean, Yale School of Management Praise for MARTIN J. WHITMAN and VALUE INVESTING 'An excellent book on investments. But, more importantly, this volume is a primer explaining to Main Street, especially Main Street businesspeople, how Wall Street really operates.' ?ÇôEugene M. Isenberg, Chairman of the Board, Nabors Industries, Inc. 'A must read for all thoughtful investors interested in a rational, disciplined, risk-averse template for successful long-term compounding.' ?ÇôO. Mason Hawkins, CFA, Chairman and CEO, Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. and The Longleaf Partners Funds 'This author knows whereof he speaks. His many years of extremely successful experience as a professional manager of investments, his academic training, and his period of teaching at a major university all make their mark on this illuminating volume. It reveals how a bright, analytically minded person with extensive practical experience studies and evaluates investments.' ?ÇôWilliam J. Baumol, Professor and Director, C.V. Starr Center, NYU Professor Emeritus, Princeton University 'This book by an experienced and practicing master, Martin Whitman, is a treasure and a reference book on how to think and feel like an owner of a business without the headache of running it day to day.' ?ÇôPapkens Der Torossian, Chairman and CEO, Silicon Valley Group, Inc. 'Marty Whitman is renowned for his uncanny instincts and insights in picking bargains in stocks and bonds. His book is a real bargain. To benefit from decades of Marty?ÇÖs experience is invaluable and to have such a commonsense and realistic approach is an extra dividend.' ?ÇôMilton Cooper, Chairman, Kimco Realty Corporation Please visit our Web site at www.wileyfinance.com" |
 | Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert, 3rd Edition Product# 460688037 Selling for $215 "Litigation support is a rapidly growing new service for CPAs and other financial experts. As firms of all sizes look for ways to take advantage of this new business area, financial experts must learn or enhance the skills and knowledge necessary for providing clients with superior litigation support services. A joint project between PricewaterhouseCoopers and top experts in the field?Çôeconomists, accountants, and lawyers?Çôthe Litigation Services Handbook brings you up to speed on trial preparation and testimony presentation, deposition, direct examination, and cross-examination. Newly-updated and revised with the latest information on issues and developments in the field, the Third Edition covers current environments, the process itself, different types of cases, proving damages and practical considerations of court appearances, and even the way rapidly developing technology has affected the practice of litigation services. In addition to addressing important developments affecting the accounting practice, the book examines issues raised when calculating both prejudgment and postjudgment interest on damage awards as well as relevant statutes and interest rates on damages. Authoritative and highly practical, the Litigation Services Handbook, Third Edition is an essential guide for any financial expert building a practice in this lucrative new area, the lawyers who hire them, and litigants who benefit from their efforts. ROMAN L. WEIL, PhD, CMA, CPA, is V. Duane Rath Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. MICHAEL J. WAGNER is a licensed attorney and CPA in the State of California. PETER B. FRANK is Vice Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP." |
 | Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust Product# 460688098 Selling for $27.95 "For thousands of years, those who controlled and monitored society’ s finances– accountants– were often the most powerful, respected, and influential members of the community. From the collectors at communal granaries in the ancient Middle East to the scribes who monitored Queen Victoria’ s Exchequer, the accountant’ s role has been to preserve the integrity of financial systems. In the United States, twentieth-century accountants played a vital role in shaping the transparency o U.S. capital markets, counseling the Allies on financial matters in both world wars, advising Congress on the creation of the federal income tax, and inventing the concept of the gross national product. Yet by 2003, the reputation of the public accountant was in tatters. How did the accounting profession in America squander its legacy of public service? What happened to the accountants that presidents, senators, and captains of industry turned to for advice? Why did auditors stop looking for fraud? How did this once revered profession find itself in this unlikely and humiliating state?" |
 | Cost Accounting and Student CD Package Product# 460765669 Selling for $150 "This acclaimed, number one market-leading book embraces the basic theme of 'different costs for different purposes.' It reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management. Chapter topics cover: the accountant's role in the organization; an introduction to cost terms and purposes; cost-volume-profit analysis; job costing; activity-based costing and activity-based management; master budget and responsibility accounting; flexible budgets, variances, and management control; inventory costing and capacity analysis; determining how costs behave; decision making and relevant information; pricing decisions and cost management; strategy, balanced scorecard, and strategic profitability analysis; cost allocation, customer-profitability analysis, and sales-variance analysis; allocation of support department costs, common costs and revenues; cost allocation: joint products and byproducts; process costing; spoilage, rework, and scrap; quality, time, and the theory of constraints; inventory management, just-in-time, and backflush costing; capital budgeting and cost analysis; management control systems, transfer pricing, and multinational considerations; and performance measurement, compensation, and multinational considerations. For future accountant who want to enhance their understanding of--and ability to--solve cost accounting problems." |
 | Principles of Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, with Annual Report, Product# 460765945 Selling for $152 "This book starts with a macro view of accounting information by presenting real financial statements. The authors establish how financial statements communicate the financing, operation, and investing activities of a business. To integrate the use of financial statements for decision making, the authors identify a finite set of tools necessary to make business decisions based on financial information. The Decision Toolkit is provided for the reader and integrated throughout the text." |
 | Quality Financial Reporting Product# 460766734 Selling for $49.95 Accounting is the language of business. This book is a step toward restoring its usefulness. |
 | Business Activity Model Student CD-ROM Product# 460766850 Selling for $73.59 "The Business Activity Model (BAM) emphasizes financial disclosure and technical research as well as those accounting topics commonly found in traditional Intermediate Accounting courses. The BAM is designed to motivate students for the accounting profession, promote technical competency, develop life-long research skills, advance critical thinking, and foster the development of communication skills. Students mimic the accounting and financial reporting processes found in the 'real world' by conducting analytical reviews, soliciting information from clients, preparing adjusting and correcting entries, and drafting financial statements and notes for a fictitious client company. This new approach will appeal to instructors interested in curriculum change who wish to incorporate more technology in their classroom. This CD-ROM based product can be used in conjunction with any Intermediate textbook." |
| Alternate Exercises and Problems for use with Intermediate Accounting Product# 460766855 Selling for $26.4 "Intermediate Accounting, 2e, by Spiceland/Sepe/Tomassini will gain support in traditional and technology-driven accounting departments, especially those looking for a more concise, decision making text that reinforces challenging concepts via CD-ROM. The revision of this text is based around a 'Learning System.' The Learning System is comprised of the text, Coach CD-ROM, and Web site. The Coach CD-ROM is a multimedia product integrating audio and video clips, animated illustrations, and alternative reading material that helps students comprehend some of the more difficult topics associated with intermediate accounting. Designed specifically for the Spiceland text, instructors and students will find these learning tools placed strategically throughout the text. This is the most comprehensive Learning System in Intermediate Accounting. At only 1120 pages (300 pages less than the average intermediate accounting text), Spiceland/S/T has not sacrificed content for pages. Instead, the authors have created a very flexible text with a student friendly writing style tha" |
| City of Smithville Product# 460766858 Selling for $52.47 "This cumulative computerized problem presents a series of transactions covering activities of the City of Smithiville relating to its General, Capital Projects, Debt Service Enterprise Fund, and the General Fixed Assets and General Long-Term Debt Account Groups. It was designed to supplement Wilson: Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities, it can supplement any Governmental text, including Engstrom: Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations." |
 | Advanced Accounting with Update (shrinkwrapped) Product# 460766876 Selling for $127.8 "The sixth edition of ADVANCED ACCOUNTING is a solid revision to a successful and comprehensive text known for its ample integration of real world examples, student orientation, and popular writing style. Additional real world content, Internet Assignments and an expanded web site make the text even more pedagogically sound and appealing to users. Coverage of all recent FASB and GASB proclamations keep the sixth edition of Hoyle/Schaefer/Doupnik current." |
 | Accounting, Chapters 1-18 Product# 460767322 Selling for $86 "Offers an unprecedented teaching & learning system for accounting students including on-line help, end of chapter Internet exercises developed specifically for this text. Flexible text & technology formats let you choose the best teach- ing option for your accounting principles course. DLC: Accounting." |
| Cost Accounting and Student CD Package Product# 460767454 Selling for $150 "This acclaimed, number one market-leading book embraces the basic theme of 'different costs for different purposes.' It reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management. Chapter topics cover: the accountant's role in the organization; an introduction to cost terms and purposes; cost-volume-profit analysis; job costing; activity-based costing and activity-based management; master budget and responsibility accounting; flexible budgets, variances, and management control; inventory costing and capacity analysis; determining how costs behave; decision making and relevant information; pricing decisions and cost management; strategy, balanced scorecard, and strategic profitability analysis; cost allocation, customer-profitability analysis, and sales-variance analysis; allocation of support department costs, common costs and revenues; cost allocation: joint products and byproducts; process costing; spoilage, rework, and scrap; quality, time, and the theory of constraints; inventory management, just-in-time, and backflush costing; capital budgeting and cost analysis; management control systems, transfer pricing, and multinational considerations; and performance measurement, compensation, and multinational considerations. For future accountant who want to enhance their understanding of--and ability to--solve cost accounting problems." |
 | 1999 Miller Gaap Implementation Manual : Restatement and Analysis of Other Current Fasb and Aicpa Pronouncements Product# 460767866 Selling for $69 "Everyone knows you can't finish a puzzle without the final piece. That's why we're publishing the 1999 Miller GAAP Implementation Manual. The Miller Reference Series now picks up where other accounting references libraries fall dangerously short. For the first time, there's complete coverage of the entire GAAP hierarchy. Jan R. Williams, author of our best-selling Miller GAAP Guide, and Joseph V. Carcello deliver those other Mandatory pronouncements in the same clear, concise, easy-to-follow Miller format, including FASB Technical Bulletins, AICPA AcSEC Practice Bulletins, FASB Implementation Guides, AICPA Statements of Position, and AICPA Accounting Interpretations. This incredible new work even includes low-cost CPE." |
| Solving Financial Accounting Problems Using Excel for Windows Product# 460768361 Selling for $31.25 From one of the hottest author teams in accounting comes a new edition of the highly-successful Financial Accounting! This edition retains the traditional procedural coverage of the previous editions along with a practical decision-making focus. Anyone who will ever be asked to prepare or use accounting information to make effective decisions will benefit from this best-selling text! |
 | Business Ratios and Formulas: A Comprehensive Guide Product# 460768389 Selling for $90 "A complete appraisal of analytical tools available to managers to assess performance " Steve Bragg has created a useful, relevant guide to applying performance measurements across the organization. His practical explanations and examples should enable managers to apply sophisticated performance measures in a straightforward manner. This book will be a great tool for process improvement. It should be well received by managers, accountants, and consultants." – Clint Davies, Partner (Principal) Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker Business managers require a variety of analytical tools to assess a host of organizational performance standards– from finance, efficiency, capacity, and market share to asset utilization, cash flows, liquidity, and capital structure. Steven Bragg’ s Business Ratios and Formulas represents a comprehensive resource of nearly 200 operational criteria, allowing managers and auditors to pick and choose the tools they need to best assess their organization’ s performance. Each cataloged measurement include" |
| Principles of Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, with Annual Report, Product# 460768392 Selling for $152 "This book starts with a macro view of accounting information by presenting real financial statements. The authors establish how financial statements communicate the financing, operation, and investing activities of a business. To integrate the use of financial statements for decision making, the authors identify a finite set of tools necessary to make business decisions based on financial information. The Decision Toolkit is provided for the reader and integrated throughout the text." |