Synopses & Reviews
This self-teaching book explains the accounting equation, describes financial statements, and guides students through the process of recording business transactions, maintaining special journals, and accounting for receivables and payables, inventories, payroll, tangible and intangible assets, and more. The book concludes with a series of exercises and their solutions. BarronÂ's continues its ongoing project of updating, improving, and giving handsome new designs to its popular list of Easy Way titles, now re-named BarronÂ's E-Z Series. The new cover designs reflect the booksÂ' brand-new page layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. Charts, graphs, diagrams, instructive line illustrations, and where appropriate, amusing cartoons help to make learning E-Z. BarronÂ's E-Z books are self-teaching manuals focused to improve studentsÂ' grades across a wide array of academic and practical subjects. For most subjects, the skill level ranges between senior high school and college-101 standards. In addition to their self-teaching value, these books are also widely used as textbooks or textbook supplements in classroom settings. E-Z books review their subjects in detail, using both short quizzes and longer tests to help students gauge their learning progress. All exercises and tests come with answers. Subject heads and key phrases are set in a second color as an easy reference aid.
Synopsis
(back cover)
Accounting makes sense when you approach it the E-Z way! Open this book for a clear, concise, step-by-step review of:
Understanding financial statements Recording business transactions Maintaining special journals Accounting for receivables and payables Accounting for payroll, and much more
Measure your progress as you gain a command of accounting methods:
Develop your understanding of the accounting equation and accounting concepts Take each chapterÂ's quizzes and check your answers And discover that learning accounting can be E-Z!
Synopsis
Table of Contents: Preface
1 The Accounting Equation
2 Financial Statements
3 Recording Business Transactions
4 Recording Adjusting, Closing, and Reversing Entries
5 Accounting for a Trading Business
6 Special Journals and Controls
7 Accounting for Cash--Special Controls
8 Accounting for Receivables and Payables
9 Accounting for Long-Life and Intangible Assets
10 Accounting for Inventories
11 Accounting for Payroll
12 Partnership Accounting
13 Corporate Accounting
Exercise Solutions
Supplementary Exercises
Glossary
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index