Accounting Principles, Study Guide

by Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Walter G. Kell

A first course in accounting, this Second Edition features a contemporary focus, authoritative and professional content, computer relevancy, flexibility in coverage, and expanded treatment of managerial accounting. Serves majors and non-majors alike by providing all the basics and preparing the student for intermediate accounting and business courses. Early chapters give excellent illustrations of financial statements and provide interesting perspectives on the classical subjects. Topics include the recording process, internal control and cash, acquisition and depreciation, corporate organization and capital stock transactions, statement analysis, cost-volume-profit relationships, incremental analysis and capital budgeting, and not-for-profit accounting. Incorporates reference material on the use of computers in accounting.

432 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 1990

About the author

Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Professor Weygandt have appeared in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertible securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Professor Weygandt is author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. He is the recipient of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educator's Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001 he received the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.