A revision of Financial Accounting and Reporting, this text is suitable for an introductory financial accounting course at either the undergraduate or MBA level. The book assumes no prior financial accounting exposure on the part of the student. The book does assume that the instructor is interested in positioning financial accounting as an important element in managing a business enterprise and in communicatiing that enterprise's performance to interested constituencies. The text adopts a business-context, user-orientation outlook as a central emphasis and places moderate emphasis on the procedural aspects of financial accounting. 
At either the undergraduate or the MBA level, instructors have the flexibility to pitch their use of the text with some slight alterations to the basic emphases. They can do this through their selection of end of chapter assignments. These assignments provide an array of choices, from the purely conceptual to the purely procedural, and in between. Moreover, instructors can go into more of the technical details of a topic if they choose by incorporating the chapter appendices.

Fundamentals of Accounting for Decision Making

Business & Money

Haskins, Mark E.

Sack, Robert

Ferris, Kenneth R.

Allen, Brandt

Economics

McGraw-Hill/Primis Custom Publishing

Cases reflect the complexities of the business setting and the reality of decision-making with incomplete data. For this reason, cases have proven to be a highly successful learning format. This casebook was developed to serve an emerging need for cases focusing on accounting and financial reporting issues in an international context.

International Financial Reporting and Analysis: A Casebook

Accounting

Mcgraw-Hill College

In Valuation: Avoiding the Winner's Curse, authors Kenneth R. Ferris and Barbara S. Pecherot Petitt will help you master both the science and the art of M&amp;A valuation. Concise, realistic, and easy to use, it brings together the field's best "rules of thumb," compares every leading traditional and alternative approach, presents examples and case studies from many industries, and offers practical solutions for today's key accounting, reporting, and tax-related challenges.

Valuation: Avoiding the Winner's Curse

Petitt, Barbara

PRENTICE/HALL

Here, in one complete volume, are the strategies, guidelines, and working tools needed to assess the quality of earnings, assets and cash flows and get behind the numbers to understand what is really happening in a company. Written especially for new and intermediate-level managers and financial professionals, this easy-to-understand guide fills a significant void by taking the confusion out of GAAP so managers can understand and use today’s vast array of published financial statements. This comprehensive resource covers all areas of financial analysis and virtually every type of financial analysis tool, including: - The Income Statement: Authoritative coverage of Revenue Recognition, the Cost of Operations, and Income Taxes – Real and Deferred - The Balance Sheet: Techniques and strategies for analyzing Working Capital, Intercorporate Investments, Noncurrent Operating Assets, Long-term Debt, Debt Valuation, and Owner’s Equity - The Statement of Cash Flows: Including Cash Flow Analysis - The Quality of Reported Earnings and Assets: alternative models of financial analysis For all professionals responsible for credit and investment analysis this indispensable guide bridges the gap between simply reading and fully understanding financial statements.

How to Understand Financial Statements: A Nontechnical Guide for Financial Analysts, Managers, and Executives/Book and Disk

Prentice Hall Direct

Master the latest insights, lessons, and best practice techniques for accurately valuing companies for potential mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings. Concise, realistic, and easy to use, Valuation for Mergers and Acquisitions, Second Edition has been fully updated to reflect the field's latest and most useful "rules of thumb," compare every modern approach to valuation, offering practical solutions for today's most complex and important valuation challenges. Treating valuation as both an art and a science, it covers the entire process, offering up-to-the-minute real-world advice, examples, and case studies. Leading valuation experts Kenneth R. Ferris and Barbara S. Petitt introduce and compare leading techniques including discounted cash flow analysis, earnings multiples analysis, adjusted present value analysis, economic value analysis, and real option analysis. They fully address related concerns such as the accounting structure of deals, accounting for goodwill, tax considerations, and more. Throughout, they identify common errors that lead to inaccurate valuation, and show how to avoid them. From start to finish, this guide doesn't just make valuation comprehensible: it provides the tools and insight to make valuation work.   For all financial professionals concerned with valuation, especially those involved in potential mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings; and for corporate finance instructors and students in Executive MBA programs concerned with valuation.

Valuation for Mergers and Acquisitions: Avoiding the Winner's Curse

Petitt, Barbara S.

Finance

Ft Pr

Master the latest insights, lessons, and best practice techniques for accurately valuing companies for potential mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings. Concise, realistic, and easy to use, Valuation for Mergers and Acquisitions, Second Edition has been fully updated to reflect the field's latest and most useful "rules of thumb," compare every modern approach to valuation, offering practical solutions for today's most complex and important valuation challenges. Treating valuation as both an art and a science, it covers the entire process, offering up-to-the-minute real-world advice, examples, and case studies. Leading valuation experts Barbara S. Petitt and Kenneth R. Ferris introduce and compare leading techniques including discounted cash flow analysis, earnings multiples analysis, adjusted present value analysis, economic value analysis, and real option analysis. They fully address related concerns such as the accounting structure of deals, accounting for goodwill, tax considerations, and more. Throughout, they identify common errors that lead to inaccurate valuation, and show how to avoid them. From start to finish, this guide doesn't just make valuation comprehensible: it provides the tools and insight to make valuation work. For all financial professionals concerned with valuation, especially those involved in potential mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings; and for corporate finance instructors and students in Executive MBA programs concerned with valuation.

Valuation for Mergers and Acquisitions

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTING is written for students who require an understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues, problems, and practices. It is appropriate for the second financial accounting course at the MBA level, often called Corporate Financial Reporting. Careful consideration is given to the management aspects associated with various financial reporting issues. Chapters blend issues, concepts, standards, and stakeholder interests to convey the complexities, controversies, and uncertainties inherent in the financial reporting process.

Corporate Financial Reporting: Text and Cases

Brownlee, E. Richard

Richard D.Irwin

This edition contains over 70 cases covering a full range of financial accounting and corporate reporting topics, most using actual company data. The text can be used either as a supplement or as a primary text, and allows students to develop critical thinking skills.

Financial Accounting and Corporate Reporting: A Casebook

Bpi/Irwin

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Irwin Professional Publishing

Financial Accounting and Corporate Reporting: A Casebook (4th ed.)

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