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Financial Accounting, 6th Edition

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  • Resources for Students
Weygandt’s Financial Accounting Sixth Edition introduces challenging accounting concepts with examples that are familiar to the student.  For example, when introducing the concept of Property, Plant and Equipment, Accounting Principles relates to the decision of buying a car.  When introducing long-term debt concept, Accounting Principles relates to the decision of the long-term financing of a car.

This connection to their everyday lives helps build student motivation, a key driver of student time spent on assignments and ultimately their mastery of the concept. 

For example, the Sixth Edition also helps students to:

•           gain a strong global perspective on financial accounting

•           be prepared for the expanding role of business technology and eBusiness

•           have ample opportunities for hands-on, active learning

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Table of Contents
1. Accounting in Action.

2. The Recording Process.

3. Adjusting the Accounts.

4. Completing the Accounting Cycle.

5. Accounting for Merchandising Operations.

6. Inventories.

7. Accounting Principles.

8. Internal Control and Cash.

9. Accounting for Receivables.

10. Plant Assets, Natural resources, and Intangible Assets.

11. Liabilities.

12. Corporations: Organizations, Stock Transactions, Dividends, and Retained Earnings.

13. Investments.

14. Statement of Cash Flows.

15. Financial Statement Analysis.

Appendixes.

A. Specimen Financial Statements: PepsiCo, Inc.

B. Specimen Financial Statements: The Coca-Cola Company, Inc.

C. Payroll Accounting.

E. Subsidiary Ledgers and Special Journals.

F. Other Significant Liabilities.

New To This Edition
  • “All About You” - Introduces challenging Accounting concepts with examples that are familiar to the student from their own personal lives.
  • Accounting Across the Organization places accounting issues within the context of marketing, management, IT, and finance.
  • Comprehensive Problem – gives students the opportunity to put to use concepts covered across multiple chapters.  
  • More Practice!  - Additional Exercises (Set B) and Additional Problems (Set C)
  • Business Insight -Give students glimpses into how real companies use accounting in practice.
Hallmark Features
  • The Navigator – guides students through each chapter by pulling all the learning tools together into a learning system.
  • Student and Instructor Approved Pedagogy includes marginal accounting equation analyses, and financial statements and ratio analysis throughout the text. The strategic use of color, photographs, and illustrations rated #1 in instructor satisfaction
  • Financial Reporting and Analysis - includes Financial Reporting Problems, Comparative Analysis Problems, Interpreting Financial Statements, and Exploring the Web exercises.
  • End-of-chapter Brief Exercises, Exercises, and Problems now classified by Learning Objective.
  • International Insight paragraphs (in margins) describe or compare the accounting practices in other countries.
  • Critical Thinking - includes Group Decision Case, Communication Activity, and Ethics Case.

Available Versions

Financial Accounting, 6th Edition
by Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso
ISBN 978-0-470-12884-8
December 2007, ©2009
Hardcover, 938 pages
US $232.95 Add to Cart
Financial Accounting, Binder Ready Version, 6th Edition
by Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Paul D. Kimmel
ISBN 978-0-470-27974-8
December 2007, ©2009
Paperback, 928 pages
US $151.95 Add to Cart
Financial Accounting, Desktop Edition, 6th Edition
by Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso
ISBN 978-0-470-47519-5
October 2008, ©2009
E-Book: Wiley Desktop Edition
General Ledger Software CD To Accompany Financial Accounting, 6th Edition, w/Ann. Report
by Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Paul D. Kimmel
ISBN 978-0-470-39688-9
June 2008, ©2009
Software
US $52.95 Add to Cart
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