Financial Accounting For Dummies
About this book
Learn to speak fluent finance—and ace your exams!
Warren Buffett said that "accounting is the language of business." And for many accounting and business students, the obscure terminology of accounting makes fluency hard to achieve. Financial Accounting For Dummies can help to demystify abstract concepts in a straightforward, friendly way. With step-by-step examples and real-world scenarios practice, it helps you grasp the fundamentals of accounting until you're ready to interpret, analyze, and evaluate corporate financial statements like you've been doing it all your life.
Packed with easy-to-understand examples, this book takes you from the big three financial statements all the way through to income taxes. Or join the anti-fraud squad by discovering how to spot the ten most common accounting shenanigans.
- Grasp introductory financial accounting course material
- Explore common concepts financial professionals use to compile reports
- Understand leases, free cash flow, and statement analysis
- Learn accounting for small businesses
Whether you're studying for your bachelor's, MBA, or MAcc, you'll find everything you need to speak the language of finance like a native—and use it to get to wherever you want to go!
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Getting a Financial Accounting Initiation
- Part 2 Reviewing Some Accounting Basics
- Part 3 Spending Quality Time with the Balance Sheet
- Part 4 Investigating Income and Cash Flow
- Part 5 Analyzing the Financial Statements
- Part 6 Feeling Brave? Tackling More Advanced Financial Accounting Topics
- Part 7 The Part of Tens
- Index
- EULA
