Work more effectively with the Excel Working Papers CD-ROM! Designed to accompany Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso’s Principles of Accounting, the Excel templates on this CD provide a framework that helps students format their accounting solutions properly. These custom forms are available for all relevant end-of-chapter exercises, problems, and cases. The Excel Working Papers provide the option of printing forms and completing them manually, or entering data electronically and then printing out a completed form. By entering data electronically, students can now paste homework to a new file and e-mail the worksheet to their instructor.

This new Principles of Accounting text helps students navigate their future accounting and business careers with a practical set of accounting tools and the confidence they need to use those tools effectively in making business decisions. The authors have taken a more conceptual and decision-making approach to the material, which many instructors are now bringing into their Accounting courses based on the AECC "white paper" report and other recent market trends (e.g., a reduction in Accounting majors, etc.).

Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso motivate students by beginning with the larger picture. Taking a macro-to-micro approach, the discussion starts with real financial statements first, rather than starting with the Accounting Cycle. This innovative approach quickly establishes how a financial statement communicates the financing, investing, and operating activities of a business to users of accounting information. Throughout, the text clearly demonstrates the importance of accounting to society and the relevance of accounting to students’ future careers.