Intermediate Accounting,
15th Edition

by Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield

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  • Successfully used by over
    100,000 students every year

    Kieso, Weygandt and Warfield’s Intermediate Accounting continues to set the standard for intermediate accounting students and professionals in the field. The Fifteenth edition builds on this legacy through new innovative student focused pedagogy in the book itself and with online support.

    Kieso maintains the qualities for which the text is globally recognized, including its reputation for accuracy, comprehensiveness, accessibility, and quality problem material that best prepares students for success on the CPA exam. The Fifteenth edition offers the most up to date coverage of IFRS and US GAAP in a presentational format suited to the complex challenges of teaching intermediate in these changing times.

    The WileyPLUS homework and learning platform is better than it has ever been for Kieso, with a multitude of new assessment items, multimedia resources, and enhanced functionality to ensure students will do real accounting and get real results. There have also never been so many options for accessing content, from several online only options, premium value print and digital formats, and custom versions designed to fit your needs perfectly.

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  • Detailed Table of Contents coming soon!

    1 Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards
    2 Conceptual Framework Underlying Financial Accounting
    3 The Accounting Information System
    4 Income Statement and Related Information
    5 Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows
    6 Accounting and the Time Value of Money
    7 Cash and Receivables
    8 Valuation of Inventories: A Cost-Basis Approach
    9 Inventories: Additional Valuation Issues
    10 Acquisition and Disposition of Property, Plant, and Equipment
    11 Depreciation, Impairments, and Depletion
    12 Intangible Assets
    13 Current Liabilities and Contingencies
    14 Long-Term Liabilities
    15 Stockholders’ Equity
    16 Dilutive Securities and Earnings Per Share
    17 Investments
    18 Revenue Recognition
    19 Accounting for Income Taxes
    20 Accounting for Pensions and Postretirement Benefits
    21 Accounting for Leases
    22 Accounting Changes and Error Analysis
    23 Statement of Cash Flows
    24 Full Disclosure in Financial Reporting

  • Students Read It: Championed by users as a valuable resource to read and providing just the right amount of current information and scholarship students need to come to class prepared and succeed both in their intermediate accounting course and later down the road on the CPA exam.

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    Students See It: Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Kieso’s Intermediate Accounting conveys complex accounting ideas through powerful visuals making it possible to absorb accounting concepts quickly and presents important topics like the accounting cycle in illustrations that students can understand:

    Students also See It! with Problem Solving Videos in WileyPLUS.

    Students Do It: Students need to do accounting to get accounting. Kieso’s Intermediate Accounting provides market-leading problem-solving material that you can assign for practice, homework, or in-class work. The WileyPLUS problem-solving experience imitates a blank sheet of paper with SmartEntry for entering account titles, so that students use recall memory when they practice or do homework online. Now in WileyPLUS, students catch their mistakes early and access content-specific resources at the point of learning with new multi-step problems that provide feedback at the step-level.

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    Students Get It: The combination of quality text, visual approach, and intuitive homework experience meets students’ digital workflow, while preparing them for class, exams, and future professions.

    Market Leader in IFRS Coverage and Resources: IFRS Insights at end of each chapter prepare students for the global market place and includes an IFRS overview relevant to the chapter. Similarities and Differences between GAAP and IFRS are presented, About the Numbers and key illustrations help demonstrate IFRS concepts, and IFRS Self-Test questions allow students to test themselves on what they just learned. An IFRS Concepts and Application section contains review exercises, Professional Research, cases, and reference financial statements.

  • New Content

    • Focus on Conceptual Understanding: New Evolving Issues boxes and Underlying Concepts notes in each chapter expand on key concepts and highlight accounting standards under consideration for change.
    • Exercises: In each chapter, the authors have updated Questions, Brief Exercises, Problems and Concepts for Analysis. In the 15th edition the Exercises have been the most heavily revised from the previous edition.
    • End-of-Chapter Demonstration Problems: Most chapters now have a new comprehensive Demonstration Problem that ties together chapter concepts and has a worked out solution for students to test their understanding.
    • CPA Preparation: Students now have access to the award winning CPA prep program CPAexcel with an opportunity to test themselves as they progress through the course.
    • Revised Test bank: Thoroughly reviewed and updated with the addition of more computational questions, new brief exercises and more problems. Test bank Exercises and Brief Exercises are now available in an algorithmic format in WileyPLUS.
    • WileyPLUS for Accounting: A student-centered learning and assessment online environment. Now all end-of-chapter material in the text can be found on WileyPLUS.
    • Videos in WileyPLUS: New Mini Lecture Videos, Exercise Solution Walk-Through Videos and Accounting Skills Videos can be found in WileyPLUS. Below is an example of a Terry Warfield Mini-Lecture Video:






    WileyPLUS Updates:

    A New WileyPLUS Design!

    Your favorite assessment is now in WileyPLUS:

    • The Rockford Practice set is now available free in WileyPLUS
    • Comprehensive Problems
    • New CPA Questions in WileyPLUS help students master FARS concepts in intermediate accounting
    • Test bank problems
    • General Ledger Software Problems
    • All End of Chapter homework is now in WileyPLUS for Kieso 15e!

    Instructors Resource Updates:

    • New mini-lecture videos featuring Terry Warfield provide further assistance on some of the more difficult concepts in the text.
    • New Problem Set B for additional practice in class or assignable for homework.
    • New problem walk-through videos and key accounting skills videos.
    • Test bank is tailored to AACSB, AICPA, and IMA professional standards.
    • Bestselling supplemental resource Problem Solving Survival Guide free to adopting professors.
    • Weekly Accounting Updates: Each week we provide 3—5 new articles, video clips, business news stories, and so much more with discussion questions to elaborate on the stories in the classroom.
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  • Instructor Resources

    In addition to the support instructors receive from WileyPLUS, Quantum, and the
    Wiley Faculty Network
    , we offer the following useful resources to our customers.

      

    Join our communities and stay current with accounting and teaching best practices, learn about free CPE online events, and connect with colleagues from around the world.

    Accounting Weekly Updates:

    www.wileyaccountingupdates.com

    Every week brings you the latest news relevant to your Intermediate Accounting course. Password only available to current users.

    Sample Syllabus

    Sample syllabus for a 2-semester intermediate accounting course using this book.

    PowerPoint Presentations

    The new PowerPoint™ presentations contain a combination of key concepts, images, and problems from the textbook.

    Instructor’s Manual

    Included in each chapter are lecture outlines with teaching tips, chapter reviews, illustrations, and review quizzes.

    Key Figures Checklist

    Reference tool students can use to confirm the are on the right track when working longer problems

    Rockford Practice Set

    This revised practice set has been designed as a student review and update of the accounting cycle and the preparation of financial statements. A general ledger software version of the practice set is also available standalone or free inside of WileyPLUS learning management system.

    Solutions Manual

    (Sample available upon request)
    Written by Donald E. Kieso, the Solutions Manual provides answers to all questions, brief exercises, exercises, problems and case materials in the end-of-chapter problems.

    End of Chapter Correlation Chart

    A handy tool for current users moving to the new edition, that helps with assignment planning and to identify your favorite problems in the new edition.

    Test Bank

    (Sample available upon request)
    Allow instructors to tailor exams according to study objectives and learning outcomes. Achievement tests, comprehensive examinations, and a final exam are included. Now have over 600 new questions and all questions are now classified by learning outcomes and professional standards AASCB, AICPA, and IMA.

    Computerized Test Bank

    (Sample available upon request)
    Allow instructors to tailor exams according to study objectives and learning outcomes. Achievement tests, comprehensive examinations, and a final exam are included. Our Algorithmic Computerized Test Bank can also report on professional standards: AACSB, AICPA, IMA

    Instructor’s Resource CD

    Contains an electronic version of all instructor supplements, and gives instructors the flexibility to access and prepare instructional materials based on their individual needs.

    Student Resources

    In addition to the support instructors receive from WileyPLUS and the Wiley Faculty Network, we offer the following useful resources to our customers

    Professional CPA Simulations

    Includes updated professional simulations that model the latest version of the computerized CPA exam.

    Problem Solving Survival Guide

    Best-selling intermediate accounting supplement, the Problem Solving Survival Guide provides additional questions and problems to develop students' problem-solving skills. Solution explanations and approaches to problems are provided.

    Rockford Practice Set

    This revised practice set has been designed as a student review and update of the accounting cycle and the preparation of financial statements. A general ledger software version of the practice set is also available.

    Excel Workbook and Templates

    This online workbook and set of Excel templates help students complete select end-of-chapter exercises and problems identified by a spreadsheet icon in the margin of the main text. The workbook provides a good review of Excel functionality.

    Working Papers

    Printed templates that can help students correctly format their textbook accounting solutions. Working paper templates are available for all end-of-chapter brief exercises, exercises, problems, and cases.

    Study Guide

    The Study Guide contains chapter outlines, chapter reviews of key concepts, and a glossary of key terms. Demonstration problems, multiple-choice, true/false, matching, and other self-testing opportunities are included.

    Print Study

    Each chapter of the Study Guide contains a chapter review, chapter outline, and a glossary of key terms. Demonstration problems, multiplechoice, true/false, matching, and other exercises are included.

    Financial Accounting as a Second Language by Weiner

    With David Weiner’s Financial Accounting as a Second Language, students will get the practice and training they need to better understand fundamental principles, build confidence, and solve problems.

    Flashcards/Quizzes for the iPhone

    Students can now study financial accounting on the go, with the Business Center App that includes flashcards and quizzes for the iPhone.