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Now you can get all the accuracy, authority, and student success of the best-selling intermediate accounting text in a brief, streamlined new version! This is the briefest two/three-semester intermediate text on the market. This new streamlined size will also allow you to introduce case material or special readings as you choose.

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Full Table of Contents
Chapter 6
Chapter 8

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Brief Table of Contents
1. Financial Accounting and Accounting Standards
2. Conceptual Framework Underlying Financial Accounting
3. The Accounting Information System
4. Balance Sheet
5. Income Statement
6. Revenue and Cash Flows
7. Cash and Receivables
8. Accounting for Inventories
9. Accounting for Property, Plant and Equipment
10. Intangible Assets
11. Accounting for Liabilities
12. Stockholders' Equity
13. Investments
14. Accounting for Income Taxes
15. Accounting for Compensation
16. Accounting for Leases
17. Disclosure Issues (including Accounting Changes and Earnings Per Share)
Appendices:
A. Accounting and the Time Value of Money
B. Financial Calculators
C. Retail Inventory Method
D. Accounting for Natural Resources
E. Accounting for Computer Software Costs
F. Accounting for Troubled Debt
G. Accounting for Derivative Instruments

Features at a Glance
  • A new Interactive CD-ROM, TAKE ACTION, accompanies text.
  • The new "TAKE ACTION CD" icon in the text alerts students to additional material that can be found on the free CD.
  • Material includes a database of annual reports of real companies, a financial statement analysis primer, a glossary, a writing handbook, a working in teams guide, career and professional spotlights and much more.
  • New, interactive tutorial modules on the Take Action CD-Rom focus on some of the more difficult accounting concepts like the accounting cycle, accounting for bad debts, and basic inventory issues
  • A selection of new brief exercises, exercises and problems now appear in the end of chapter material.
  • A new pedagogical feature in every chapter called What Do The Numbers Mean highlights the more user -oriented applications of accounting concepts and issues in each chapter.
  • Exercises powered by eGrade--two exercises for each chapter-- are available on the web site
  • A Review Exercise (with solution provided) appears at the end of each chapter, after the summary of learning objectives

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