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FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING offers the best technology to enable both students and faculty. Some of the elements of the technology you'll find include:

TAKE ACTION Interactive CD (Click here to see a sample tutorial from the CD in action! )
Technology offers many opportunities to enrich the learning environment. Wiley has prepared an outstanding interactive CD that will improve your students' grades without a huge impact on how you teach your course. The CD shows your students…

…HOW TO STUDY
Everybody learns in different ways. Understanding how they learn best will help your students get the best possible grade from this course. TAKE ACTION offers an Interactive Learning Style Quiz that shows students how they learn best, and how to pinpoint the study aids in the text that are most effective based on each learning style. They also get special help on Surviving the Group Project.

…WHAT TO STUDY

  • TAKE ACTION includes a special tutorial to help students master the Accounting Cycle, one of the most important keys to success. In fact, TAKE ACTION features a total of eight interactive tutorials to help students ace the most difficult topics:
    • Accounting Cycle
    • Accounting for Bad Debt
    • Transfer of Receivables
    • Basic Inventory Methods
    • LIFO Issues
    • Interest Capitalization
    • Depreciation of Long-Lived Assets
    • Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
  • So students can check their progress through the course, TAKE ACTION offers a special Self-Test feature for each chapter.
  • TAKE ACTION helps students expand skills and apply their growing knowledge with a Writing Handbook, Database of more than 20 Real Companies, Ethics in Accounting feature, Financial Analysis Primer, Additional Disclosures, Expanded Discussions, Spreadsheet Tools and more!
…WHY STUDY!
When your students ace this course, they are on the road to a successful career. TAKE ACTION helps them figure out where to go from here by:
  • Offering insight into Why Accounting Is Important
  • Exploring the opportunities available in Careers in Accounting
  • Meeting business professionals in the Professional Profiles section

All of this is designed to help your students get the best grade they can in the course... and to give them the tools they need to take them whereever they want to go in their careers!

WEBSITE
A Book Companion Site accompanies the text with a wealth of online resources, including:

WEBLINKS
These invaluable links guide students to Web sites where they can find and analyze information related to the chapter topic. These sites can be reached directly or by linking through the text Web site.

SPREADSHEET EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS
These problems are identified by an icon, and can be solved using Solving Intermediate Accounting Problems Using Excel for Windows.

EGRADE
Exercises and problems with eGrade.

SUPPLEMENTS
Technology supplements for both student and instructor. Click here to see a complete list of supplements.

  • Computerized Test Bank
    This easy-to-use program allows instructors to create multiple versions of the same test. This computerized test bank also has authoring capabilities and randomizing functions.

  • Take Action! CD
    The Fundamentals Take Action! CD contains the professional, analyst, and student helper toolkit and other features such as the learning styles quiz, interactive self-study and self-test questions, and the Accounting Cycle Tutorial. This new CD also contains eight new voice-guided tutorials covering securitization, LIFO, bad debts, basic inventory issues, depreciation, interest capitalization, impairments, and Concept Statement No. 7.

  • On-line Checklist of Key Figures
    Available for download on the Web site only, the Check Figures are partial and complete answers (not solutions) to select end-of-chapter materials.

  • On-line PowerPoint Presentations
    For download on the Web site only, these electronic slides emphasize the key concepts in each chapter.

  • Instructor's Resource CD
    This CD-ROM contains the instructor's manual, solution manual, teaching transparencies, text art, computerized test bank, PowerPoint presentations, and Check Figures.

  • On-line Solutions to Excel Templates
    Available for download from the Web site only, these are solutions to the Excel problem templates discussed in the Kieso
    Fundamentals Excel Workbook.

  • NBR Video
    This video contains segments from the Nightly Business Report that have been selected for the applicability to intermediate accounting. An Instructor's Manual with suggestions for integrating the material into the classroom accompanies the video.

  • On-line Solutions to Rockford Practice Set
    Available for print or download from the Kieso Fundamentals Web site, this supplement provides solutions to the Rockford Practice Set.

  • Excel Working Papers
    This CD contains all solution forms and partially completed solution forms for all end-of-chapter problems and exercises. Solution forms are available as Excel templates. Solutions can be typed directly into the templates that are saved onto a hard drive or written manually after forms are printed. By entering data electronically, students can now past homework to a new file and e-mail the worksheet to their instructor.

  • Excel Workbook
    This workbook contains Excel templates that allow students to complete select end-of-chapter exercises and problems identified by a spreadsheet icon in the margin of the main text. A useful introduction to Excel, this package details how students can work with preprogrammed spreadsheets and it instructs on how to design your own spreadsheet.

  • Computerized Rockford Practice Set
    This computerized practice set allows students to apply concepts of the accounting cycle and prepare financial statements using general ledger software (GLS).

  • eGrade
    Interactive questions derived from end-of-chapter exercises. These anonymous practice questions are powered by eGrade.

  • Web Only Business Extra
    This web site gives professors and students instant access to a wealth of current articles dealing with all aspects of accounting. The articles are organized by topic, and discussion questions follow each article.