Book description
Learn the basics of practical accounting
Featuring the latest information on accounting methods and standards, this guide shows you how to avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics. You'll quickly understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.
With 25 percent new content including updated information on small and large business reporting standards, international accounting standards, and preventing financial reporting fraud, Accounting For Dummies continues to be an excellent resource for those studying accounting.
The separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses (Little GAAP vs. Big GAAP)
The internationalization of accounting standards
The rise in restatements of previously issued financial reports by public corporations, and how revisions of previously reported earnings impact investors
The increasing focus on preventing financial reporting fraud and the expanded role and responsibility of the CPA auditor
Accounting problems with stock options
The "unaccounted for" cost of employee pensions and retirement health care costs, in both the private and public sectors
Expanded coverage of small business accounting
Updated resources and websites
The information in Accounting For Dummies is valuable for anyone studying or working in the fields of accounting or finance.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Opening the Books on Accounting
- Part II: Exploring Financial Statements
- Part III: Accounting in Managing a Business
- Part IV: Preparing and Using Financial Reports
- Part V: The Part of Tens
- Appendix: Glossary: Slashing Through the Accounting Jargon Jungle
- Cheat Sheet
Product information
- Title: Accounting For Dummies, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781118482223
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