Introduction to Accounting: Preliminary Edition

Focusing on the uses rather than the preparation of accounting information, this text introduces students to the process of recording, adjustments, closing events, and their impact on financial statements. Business events are analyzed from both external and internal perspectives, and the planning, performing and evaluating aspects of accounting are introduced. Each chapter contains a vignette giving students a glimpse of a real company problem, and in addition financial data from real companies is included in end-of-chapter problems and cases.