Contents: Financial reporting and accounting cycle : Accounting information: users and uses -- Financial statements: an overview -- The Mechanics of accounting -- Completing the accounting cycle -- Ensuring the intergrity of financial information -- Operating activities : Selling a product or a service -- Inventory -- Completing the operating cycle -- Investing and financial activities : Investments in property, plant, and equipment and in intangible assets -- Long-term debt financing -- Equity financing -- Investments in debt and equity securities -- Other dimensions of financial reporting : The Statement of cash flows -- Foundations of management accounting: Introduction to management accounting -- Manufacturing cost systems -- Merchandising and service cost systems -- Management accounting information in the new business environment -- Planning, control and performance evaluation: Analyzing cost-volume - profit relationships -- Evaluating performance -- Operating budgets -- Other dimensions of decision making : Relevant costs for nonroutine decisions -- Capital investment decisions -- Continuous improvement in management accounting.