Essentials of Accounting: United States Edition - Softcover

Anthony, Robert N.; Breitner, Leslie K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013149693X ISBN 13: 9780131496934

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

For courses in Introductory Accounting.

This programmed text has a proven format that involves a unique reversal of pages in the later chapters.  This design was conceived as a way to allow the answer column to always appear in th right margin.  The book is completed front to back, then inverted and completed back to front

About this title

Review:

"This book will be of great value to corporate management trainees, as well as to business school students who want to 'hit the ground running.'" ― Professor Jonathan B. Schiff, Fairleigh Dickinson University

"We have effectively used Essentials of Accounting in our introductory graduate level course in financial accounting. Dr. Anthony is clearly one of the leading academics in our field and has demonstrated an ability to communicate a difficult body of knowledge to generations of accounting students." ― Professor Steven Lilien, Baruch College

"Essentials of Accounting serves as an indispensable tool for teaching and as a guidebook for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of accounting in an easy, highly interactive way. It is simply the best." ― Professor Philip DiSalvio, Seton Hall University

About the Author:

Robert N. Anthony is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Control (Emeritus) at Harvard Business School, and a trustee of both Colby College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. A former President of the American Accounting Association, Dr. Anthony has also been Assistant Secretary of Defense, Controller. He has received awards including "Outstanding Accounting Educator" from the American Accounting Hall of Fame.

Leslie K. Breitner, D.B.A., and Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches financial management, financial statement analysis, and management control for government and nonprofit organizations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In addition, Dr. Breitner has developed and taught an online financial management course for a master's program in health care management at Seton Hall University. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School she was a full-time member of the faculty in the Graduate School for Health Studies, Health Care Administration Program at Simmons College. She received her doctorate from the Departments of Accounting and Health Care Management at Boston University's Graduate School of Management.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 013149693X
• ISBN 13: 9780131496934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304