Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions (10th ed) [Hardcover]

Robert F. Meigs (Author), Mary A. Meigs (Author), Mark Bettner (Author), Ray Whittington (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070433607 | ISBN-13: 978-0070433601 | Publication Date: October 1996 | Edition: 10th

The tenth edition remains the ideal text for a course where majors and non-majors are taught together. While accounting majors receive exposure to and practice with accounting procedures, terms and concepts, non-majors learn the role of accounting information in business decisions. Two new co-authors have been added to the writing team. Ray Whitington and Mark Bettner share their accounting expertise, teaching experience, and writing excellence. In addition, managerial accounting coverage has been carefully reworked and expanded. Material on capital budgeting, incremental decision making, standard costing, and operational budgeting have been upgraded. A new appendix on Activity Based Costing and expanded coverage of transfer pricing enhance the managerial chapters. New coverage includes new chapters on Forms of Business Organization (Chapter 6), and Introduction to Cash Flows and Financial Statement Analysis (Chapter 8).

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About the Author

Robert Meigs received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He is also the author of the successful principles textbook ACCOUNTING: The Basis for Business Decisions.

Mark Bettner is the Chair of Accounting at Bucknell University. He received his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1096 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College; 10th edition (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070433607
• ISBN-13: 978-0070433601
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,525,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars review accounting, December 3, 1999

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Engy raouf (cairo,egypt) - See all my reviews

It is a very good book but there is no solution for the problems

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Your book has no answer key to the practice questions, October 25, 1999

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to whom it may concern, this book is of little value when you can not check your work do to the fact it has no answer key for the practical exercises. If you have an answer key can you please provide at least the 1st four chapters. Thank you. [e-mail]

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Competent Accounting Education, February 11, 2001

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Adnan Saeed (Karachi, Pakistan) - See all my reviews

Being a teacher, I find this book is very useful for beiggners as well as for teachers. Basically, In my opinion, accounting can never be understood without concept and principles. This book satisfies all the basic requirements of learners. This book is written in simple and useful business enviornment. It depicts all the concepts and attracts it`s users. The accounting treatments are stated in a simple way. One should can easily understand the basic purpose of financial and manegerial accounting. Really this book is remarkable!! I found this book is very useful. I have not words in my mind to describe it`s actual utility. But one thing is that there is a lack of problems in few chapters, if that could also be included then I am assure that the major problem of practice should be solved. This book described in a simple way, How the accounting performs as the "Language of Business".