Synopses & Reviews
Financial Accounting: A New Perspective embodies an approach to teaching that has been developed by author Paul Solomon for over 30 years. The perspective is student-centered in that it motivates students by truly acknowledging them as business majors first-by taking them out of the preparer mode yet still emphasizing how they cannot be successful in business without accounting. Solomon begins not by talking about business and accounting in the abstract, but by introducing a realistic, concrete business case that students can count on throughout the book as a controlled environment in which to learn new concepts.
Solomon's text presents principles of financial accounting through a framework using the entrepreneurial running case, Cards and Memoribilia Unlimited, which is fully integrated throughout the text. This case engages the student while exposing them to the use of financial accounting statements and information in developing a new business and their role in business decision making. Early on in the book, corporate financial statements are introduced along side those of CMU. Solomon covers debits and credits but delays their presentation until chapter 9 - which may well prove to be preferable to skipping them altogether. Students are more prepared to cover debits and credits later in the course and professors are able to at least introduce these important concepts to their business and accounting majors.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1- Introduction to a Business: CardsandMemorabilia Unlimited
Appendix 1-1 CardsandMemorabilia Unlimited
Chapter 2 - Analyzing the Transactions of a Business
Chapter 3 - Financial Statements and Their Relationships
Chapter 4 - The Balance Sheet
Chapter 5 - Using the Balance Sheet to Make Decisions
Chapter 6 - The Income Statement
Chapter 7 - Using the Income Statement to Make Decisions
Chapter 8 - The Statement of Cash Flows
Chapter 9 - The Accounting Process: Manual and Computerized Systems
Appendix 9-1 Learning How to Use T-Account Analysis
Chapter 10 - Comparing Financial Statements by Entity and Industry
Appendix 10-1 Learning How to Read Consolidated Financial Statements
Chapter 11 - How Operating Activities Affect Financial Statements
Chapter 12 - How Investing Activities Affect Financial Statements
Appendix 12-1 Mastering Compound Interest Concepts (With Tables)
Chapter 13 - How Financing Activities Affect Financial Statements
Appendix 13-1 Measuring and Reporting Leases
Appendix 13-2 Accounting for Deferred Income Taxes
Chapter 14 - Applying What You Have Learned To Analyze the Gap
Appendix 14-1 2001 Financial Information for the Gap, Inc. and for The Limited, Inc.
Appendix 14-3 Creating a Statement of Cash Flows
Appendix A Performance Objectives
Appendix B Commonly Used Account Titles
Appendix C Transactions A 1 through Z for CardsandMemorabilia Unlimited