Includes indexes.

Contents: Introduction to accounting and business -- Analyzing transaction -- The adjusting process -- Completing the accounting cycle -- Accounting for merchandising businesses -- Inventories -- Sarbanes-Oxley, internal control and cash -- Receivables -- Fixed assets and intangible assets -- Current liability and payroll -- Corporations: Organization, stock transactions, and dividends -- Long-term liabilities: bonds and notes -- Investments and fair value accounting -- Statements of cash flows -- Financial statement analysis -- Managerial accounting concepts and principles -- Job order costing -- Process cost systems -- Cost behavior and cost-volume-profit analysis -- Variable costing for management analysis -- budgeting -- Performance Evaluation using variances from standard costs -- Performance evaluation for decentralized operations -- Differential analysis and product pricing -- Capital investment analysis -- Cost allocation and activity-based costing -- Cost management for just-in-time environments