Accounting: A Survey

Business & Money

Riggs, Henry E.

Accounting

McGraw=Hill

Expert guidance for fiscally responsible engineering and technology managers. This thoroughly updated Second Edition is an accessible self-study guide and text that helps engineers extract important meaning from financial statements and accounting records, ask insightful questions, engage in thoughtful debate about accounting and financial issues, and make informed decisions that benefit their companies.

Financial and Economic Analysis for Engineering and Technology Management

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Wiley-Interscience

Combines financial and managerial/cost accounting, focusing on the concepts underlying accounting systems, statements and reports most commonly encountered in industry today along with the analysis of those reports and statements. As procedures and analytical techniques are introduced, the role of compromises, estimates, assumptions and omissions is emphasized. Contains a large number and diversity of end-of-chapter problems plus discussion questions and four case studies.

Financial and Cost Analysis: For Engineering and Technology Management (Wiley Series in Engineering and Technology Management)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Managing high-technology companies

Management & Leadership

Lifetime Learning Publications

You and Your Money: Making Sense of Personal Finance

This book addresses the very many considerations people face in handling their income and savings, investing, borrowing, protecting against risks, and tax planning. Somewhat surprisingly, our educational system, at the high school level and beyond, rarely addresses this myriad of issues-both problems and opportunities-that can be categorized as personal finances. Our schools lecture ceaselessly about the challenges of drugs, sex, alcohol, smoking, social media, and wellness-and appropriately so, since young people are exposed to endless opportunities to make poor and harmful decisions regarding each of those matters. But so also are adults at all ages-teenagers to senior citizens-confronted by a host of challenges and opportunities as to how to manage their personal finances-from before they receive their first paychecks and continuing on through retirement and death. As we proceed through high school, college, and even graduate school, we may take courses in accounting, finance, economics, and taxation, all of which offer tidbits of advice on handling our personal finances, but none are comprehensive in addressing personal finance. This book seeks to fill that void. We are bombarded with information, suggestions, inducements, promises, threats, and political dialogue that relate to our financial well-being. This bombardment comes primarily from individuals and companies that have a stake in getting us to enter into a financial arrangement with them (e.g. banks, lawyers, securities brokers, life-insurance agents, lenders-including auto, appliance, and other retailers-and real estate brokers). Many of these-in fact, most-are subject to some governmental regulations that restrict them from outright lying. But regulators are hard-pressed to fashion requirements that would result in full and unbiased disclosure of benefits, costs, and risks associated with various financial decisions. Sellers of financial products and

Finance

Xlibris

This book addresses the very many considerations people face in handling their income and savings, investing, borrowing, protecting against risks, and tax planning. Somewhat surprisingly, our educational system, at the high school level and beyond, rarely addresses this myriad of issues-both problems and opportunities-that can be categorized as personal finances. Our schools lecture ceaselessly about the challenges of drugs, sex, alcohol, smoking, social media, and wellness-and appropriately so, since young people are exposed to endless opportunities to make poor and harmful decisions regarding each of those matters. But so also are adults at all ages-teenagers to senior citizens-confronted by a host of challenges and opportunities as to how to manage their personal finances-from before they receive their first paychecks and continuing on through retirement and death. As we proceed through high school, college, and even graduate school, we may take courses in accounting, finance, economics, and taxation, all of which offer tidbits of advice on handling our personal finances, but none are comprehensive in addressing personal finance. This book seeks to fill that void. We are bombarded with information, suggestions, inducements, promises, threats, and political dialogue that relate to our financial well-being. This bombardment comes primarily from individuals and companies that have a stake in getting us to enter into a financial arrangement with them (e.g. banks, lawyers, securities brokers, life-insurance agents, lenders-including auto, appliance, and other retailers-and real estate brokers). Many of these-in fact, most-are subject to some governmental regulations that restrict them from outright lying. But regulators are hard-pressed to fashion requirements that would result in full and unbiased disclosure of benefits, costs, and risks associated with various financial decisions. Sellers of financial products and

Financial statements and information drawn from them confront us daily: in the media, in corporate annual reports, in the treasurer’s reports for clubs or religious groups, in documents provided to employees and managers, as one considers alternative investments, in documents provided by homeowners’ association and government agencies. Various readers of a company’s “financial score” make decisions based on financial information: the company’s managers devise actions to improve operations; investors buy or sell the corporation’s securities; creditors decide how much to lend; customers judge the reliability of this supplier; potential employees decide whether to invest their careers in the company. If you are training to be an accountant, find another book. This book’s objective is to increase your ability to draw useful information from financial statements, and thus to make better decisions―in both your personal life and your professional life. Studying this book should help you be a better manager. That is both its objective and its perspective. The book starts at square one; it assumes no prior knowledge on your part. To increase your financial literacy, you will learn the common nomenclature (but not esoteric jargon) used by accountants and financial experts. You will be equipped to ask insightful questions of experts, to engage them and your colleagues in thoughtful debates about financial and accounting issues, and to make better decisions.

Understanding the Financial Score (Synthesis Lectures on Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship, 1)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers

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