Authors: Dr. L. Murphy Smith, CPA, Dr. Katherine T. Smith, and Shannon Knight Deer, CPA

Designed to present financial accounting in a one-sequence course in 2-year or 4-year colleges. The book can also effectively be used in a graduate-level financial accounting course for MBA students, who are from non-business major backgrounds.

The text presents the fundamentals of financial accounting using a unique cross-functional approach that demonstrates the relevance of accounting information to the various business functional areas (e.g., marketing, finance, and production).

Accounting majors will appreciate how accounting information contributes to the success of the firm and the decision-making of every member of the management team. Non-accounting majors will understand how accounting information contributes to their future job performance. Cross-functional applications are interwoven into the presentation of accounting fundamentals in each chapter. In addition, the book contains contemporary accounting issues related to ethics, information technology, and global commerce. The textbook features a chapter, as well as observations throughout the book, on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and how they differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

The textbook covers the key topics in financial accounting like most books in this field. The significant difference is the book’s cross-functional perspective that engages students by showing them how they will use financial accounting in their careers. The book is also unique in its integration of accounting ethics, global commerce, and technology.

The textbook includes a CD-ROM containing ancillary materials such as a Solution Manual, Test Bank, Study Guide (including chapter summaries and sample questions and problems), Working Papers in Excel, and Power Point Slides.

Chapter 1:     The Accounting Information System
Chapter 2:     The Financial Statements
Chapter 3:     Accounting Transaction Processing
Chapter 4:     Measuring Profitability and Financial Position on the Financial Statements
Chapter 5:     Cash, Internal Control, and Ethics
Chapter 6:     Accounts and Notes Receivable
Chapter 7:     Accounting for the Merchandising Firm
Chapter 8:     Plant Assets, Intangibles, and Long-Term Investments
Chapter 9:     Liabilities
Chapter 10:   Accounting for the Corporation
Chapter 11:   More About the Income Statement and Statement of Stockholders’ Equity
Chapter 12:   The Statement of Cash Flows
Chapter 13:   Financial Statement Analysis
Chapter 14:   Accounting for Global Commerce

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Corporate Finance and the Securities Laws has been winning over practitioners with its clear "how to do it" approach ever since its publication in 1990. This acclaimed guide is now completely updated in this Fourth Edition to help you meet the challenges of raising capital in today's increasingly regulated marketplace.

Written in plain English by two top experts in the field, this guide is the go-to resource that explains the mechanics of corporate finance together with the statutes that govern each type of deal.

You will receive expert corporate finance analysis, procedural guidance and practical securities law pointers every step of the way to help you structure all types of corporate finance deals, root out problems before deals are put in motion, shepherd transactions through the regulatory process and know what to do when securities law problems crop up.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Overviews of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Integrated Disclosure System
• Chapter 2: Syndicate Procedures and Underwriting Documents
• Chapter 3: Selected Issues in the Registration and Distribution Process
• Chapter 4: Manipulative Practices and Market Activities During Distributions
• Chapter 5: Liabilities and Due Diligence
• Chapter 6: Rules of the Self-Regulatory Organizations
• Chapter 7: Private Placements
• Chapter 8: Shelf Registrations (Rule 415)
• Chapter 9: International Financings
• Chapter 10: Commercial Paper
• Chapter 11: Innovative Financing Techniques
• Chapter 12: Convertible, Exchangeable and "Linked" Securities; Warrants
• Chapter 13: Transactions with Securityholders: Stock Repurchases, Debt Restructurings and Rights Offerings
• Chapter 14: Asset-Backed Securities

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Jae K. Shim, PhD,
Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA,
Nick Dauber, MS, CPA

A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controller’s quick answers to day-to-day questions.

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free, back-of-the book CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

- Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
- Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
- Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
- Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
- Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
- Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
- Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
- Internal Control: Computer Applications
- Checklist: Medium to Large Business
- Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist — Medium to Large Business
- Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report
- Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
- Variance Analysis: Labor Performance Report
- Variance Analysis: Monthly Material Variance Report
- Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Regional Sales Manager
- Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Vice-President

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A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management.  Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give you answers to day-to-day questions.  

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

-    Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
-    Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
-    Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
-    Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
-    Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
-    Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
-    Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
-    Internal Control: Computer Applications
-    Checklist: Medium to Large Business
-    Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist — Medium to Large Business
-    Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report
-    Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
-    Variance Analysis: Labor Performance Report
-    Variance Analysis: Monthly Material Variance Report
-    Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Regional Sales Manager
-    Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Vice-President

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Available: June 2012

A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management.  Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give you answers to day-to-day questions. 

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

• Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
• Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
• Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
• Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
• Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
• Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
• Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
• Internal Control: Computer Applications
• Checklist: Medium to Large Business
• Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist — Medium to Large Business
• Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report
• Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
• Variance Analysis: Labor Performance Report
• Variance Analysis: Monthly Material Variance Report
• Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Regional Sales Manager
• Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Vice-President

Related books:

• Practical Guide to Corporate Taxation (U.S.)
• Almanac of Business & Industrial Financial Ratios (2012)
• U.S. Master Tax Guide®, 2012

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COURSE 2 (Advocis 232)
CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES IN FINANCIAL PLANNING: 10th Edition

Students are introduced to basic income tax laws and then move into a more advanced understanding, as it relates to areas of financial planning. A review of the professional and ethical responsibilities associated with the role of a financial planner and an understanding of the structures and services within the financial industry are covered in the course. Different forms of business structures are explored in depth, along with an understanding of trusts.

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This webinar series consists of a panel of highly successfully accounting professionals who have each approached the integration of financial planning into their practice in different ways. This second webinar will cover:

• The role of the accountant in financial planning
• What is permitted and what is prohibited
• The importance of the engagement letter
• The financial planning process from setting goals to presenting the plan
• Best practices and lessons learned

Part One:
Why Financial Planning is Important to Accountants Archived Webinar 2012

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Philip Wilson

The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

It comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
• Accommodation and food services
• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and religious, grant-making, civic, and professional organizations)

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