Includes indexes.

Contents: Introduction to financial statements -- A further look at financial statements -- The accounting information system -- Accrual accounting concepts -- 5. Merchandising operations and the multiple-step income statement -- Reporting and analyzing inventory -- Fraud, internal control, and cash -- Reporting and analyzing receivables -- Reporting and analyzing long-lived assets -- Reporting and analyzing liabilities -- Reporting and analyzing stockholders' equity -- Statements of cash flows -- Financial Analysis: the big picture -- Managerial accounting -- Job order costing -- process costing -- Activity- based costing -- Cost-volume-profit analysis: additional issues -- Budgetary planning -- Budgetary control and responsibility accounting -- Standard costs and balanced scorecard -- Incremental analysis and capital budgeting --