Financial Analysis: A User Approach [Paperback]

Gary Giroux (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471229903 | ISBN-13: 978-0471229902 | Publication Date: December 16, 2002 | Edition: 1

Core Concepts of Financial Analysis: A User Approach takes a streamlined approach that focuses on fundamentals and leaves room for additional content. With Wiley’s Business Extra Select program, Instructors can build on the core text by adding articles, cases, and readings from such leading business resources as INSEAD, Ivey and Harvard Business School Cases, Fortune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Instructors can select a pre-built Business Extra Select CoursePack, or create their own CoursePack from the thousands of articles and cases in the Business Extra Select database. You can even add your own content. CoursePacks can be packaged with the text or purchased separately online.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Outstanding Content: Core Concepts of Financial Analysis: A User Approach takes a streamlined approach that focuses on fundamentals and leaves room for additional content.

Materials from Leading Business Publications: With Wiley’s Business Extra Select program, Instructors can build on the core text by adding articles, cases, and readings from such leading business resources as INSEAD, Ivey and Harvard Business School Cases, Fortune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and more.

Flexibility: Instructors can select a pre-built Business Extra Select CoursePack, or create their own CoursePack from the thousands of articles and cases in the Business Extra Select database. You can even add your own content. CoursePacks can be packaged with the text or purchased separately online.

Low Price: The Core Concepts text’s brief format translates into a lower cost for students. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Gary Giroux is Shelton Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and has been at Texas A&M for about twenty-five years. He teaches financial analysis and other financial and governmental courses in the undergraduate program. He also teaches research methods in the Ph.D. program.
Dr. Giroux has published over fifty articles, including publications in Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and numerous other journals. He is the author of three earlier books, including Dollars & Scholars, Scribes & Bribes: The Story of Accounting. His primary research areas are governmental and financial accounting. He also is interested in accounting and business history.
He has a number of outside interests, including collecting revenue documents and stamps, reading, golf, and scuba diving. He and his wife Naomi travel regularly, in part based on international research projects and presentations. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471229903
• ISBN-13: 978-0471229902
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,850,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gary Giroux is Shelton Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University. He has published in Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and numerous other journals. He is the author of five books, including Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet: the Search for Financial Reality. His primary research and teaching interests are in auditing and governmental accounting.



He is co-authoring two books at this time: Primordial Soup and The Dark Side of Capitalism. Please visit www.GaryGiroux.com for more information and to follow Gary's blog.