TY - BOOK AU - Larson,Kermit D. AU - Larson,Kermit D. TI - Essentials of financial accounting: information for business decisions SN - 0256209162 AV - HF5635.P974 U1 - 657 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Chicago PB - Irwin KW - Accounting N1 - Rev. ed. of: Financial accounting; Accompanied by computer file: Essentials of Accounting: A multimedia approach; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Accounting in business organizations and society -- Financial statements and accounting principles -- Recording transactions -- Adjustung the accounts and preparing the statements -- Concluding the accounting cycle and expanding the balance sheet -- Appendix A: work sheets and reversing -- Accounting for merchandising activities -- Accounting for cash -- Short-term investments and receivables -- Inventories and cost of goods sold -- Plant and equipment -- Natural resources, intangible assets and long-term investments -- Current and long-term liabilities -- Installment notes payable and bonds -- Corporations, proprietorships and partnerships -- Additional corporate transactions; reporting income and ertained earnings; earnings per share -- Reporting and usin cash flows on decision making -- Analyzing financial statements -- Accounting principles, the FASB's conceptual framework and alternative valuation methods -- Special journals -- Present and future values:an expansion -- Financial statements and related disclosures from southwest airlines co.'s 1994 annual report -- Financial statements and related disclosures from lands' end inc.'s 1995 annual report -- Comprehensive list of accounts ER -