Cornerstones of Financial Accounting + Annual Reports 2011 - Hardcover

Rich, Jay S.; Jones, Jefferson P.; Mowen, Maryanne M.; Hansen, Don R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1133943977 ISBN 13: 9781133943976

Publisher: South-Western Pub, 2013

Synopsis

Get where you need to be with CORNERSTONES OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING. Cornerstones delivers a truly unique learning system that is integrated through the entire introductory managerial accounting journey -- ensuring students will leave the course with the knowledge they need to be future business leaders. Students are guided through: Building A Strong Foundation: Students need to build a strong foundation of the fundamentals before they can move forward in this course. The unique Cornerstones approach gets them through the fundamentals FASTER so that they can transition to analyzing and applying concepts. Understanding Relationships: Rather than focusing on concepts in isolation, students should understand accounting as a system and recognize how the end result changes based on how the numbers affect each other. CORNERSTONES aids students in this step as an important part in training them to be good decision makers. Making Decisions: Armed with the knowledge they have gained from working through the other aspects of the Cornerstones approach, students are now given the tools to bring their knowledge full-circle and practice making good business decisions. Students love this approach because it presents materials the way they learn. Instructors love it because it gets students to master the foundations more quickly and allows more time to learn and apply the analysis and decision making of accounting. Get There with Cornerstones! Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http: //gocengage.com/infotrac.

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Review:

"The cornerstones are the feature that sets this book apart. The explanations of key skills are clear, concise, and easy for students to find."

"Has a wide variety of exercises and problems. Presents examples in a clearly understood format."

"Most texts make too many 'exhibit' references throughout the body of each chapter which can cause students to lose focus and eventually cause frustration. The Cornerstones approach removes this distraction from the body of the text and instead highlights the computational aspect of each chapter visually by using the Cornerstones."

"It is an admirable approach. Students struggle with understanding and completing accounting homework. The Cornerstones approach acknowledges this fact and squarely takes on this problem."

"Students don't really read the text. They'll go to it and read if they're struggling with something, to look for help in that area. This is the priority of issues with trying to accommodate students' learning. With Cornerstones, it gives the students the easiest option to get help with the step by step approach."

About the Author:

Jay Rich is a Professor of Accounting at Illinois State University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program, he worked as an auditor at Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago and earned his C.P.A. in 1985. He has published articles in The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Accounting Organizations and Society, and others. He has also served on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Current Issues in Auditing. Dr. Rich has received both the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Notable Contribution to the Literature Award from the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association as well as the Outstanding Educator Award from the Illinois CPA Society. His primary teaching interest is financial accounting and he has taught numerous courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. His outside interests include his family, travel, reading, and watching sports, but he spends most of his free time driving his children to various activities. He also repeatedly develops plans to exercise and diet at some point in the future. By all accounts, he is a master at grilling meat, a mediocre skier, and a shameful golfer.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1133943977
• ISBN 13: 9781133943976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 813