Financial Accounting v3.1

By Joe Ben Hoyle, C. J. Skender, and Leah Kratz

Published

November 2021

Discipline

Accounting Textbooks

ISBN (Digital)

978-1-4533-3945-9

Brief Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: What Is Financial Accounting, and Why Is It Important?
• Chapter 2: What Should Decision Makers Know in Order to Make Good Decisions about an Organization?
• Chapter 3: How Is Financial Information Delivered to Decision Makers Such as Investors and Creditors?
• Chapter 4: How Does an Organization Accumulate and Organize the Information Necessary to Create Financial Statements?
• Chapter 5: Why Is Financial Information Adjusted Prior to the Production of Financial Statements?
• Chapter 6: Why Should Decision Makers Trust Financial Statements?
• Chapter 7: In Financial Reporting, What Information Is Conveyed about Receivables?
• Chapter 8: How Does a Company Gather Information about Its Inventory?
• Chapter 9: Why Does a Company Need a Cost Flow Assumption in Reporting Inventory?
• Chapter 10: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Property and Equipment?
• Chapter 11: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Intangible Assets?
• Chapter 12: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Investments?
• Chapter 13: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Current and Contingent Liabilities?
• Chapter 14: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Noncurrent Liabilities Such as Bonds?
• Chapter 15: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Other Noncurrent Liabilities?
• Chapter 16: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Shareholders’ Equity?
• Chapter 17: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed by the Statement of Cash Flows?
• Appendix A: Present Value Tables
• Appendix B: Summary of Ratios and Financial Indicators