Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, WebCT, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Jerry J. Weygandt (Author), Donald E. Kieso (Author), Paul D. Kimmel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471413658 | ISBN-13: 978-0471413653 | Publication Date: October 2001 | Edition: 2nd

Presents important analytical tools to decision making.
* Strong real world application.
* Emphasis on critical thinking and managerial decision-making.

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From the Back Cover

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING TAKES YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO!

Where do you want to go? Will  you be going on to other accounting courses, or are you following a different career path? Regardless of where you want to go, this managerial accounting learning system will take you there!

Get grade-pumping assistance with the new take-action CD-ROM

Interactive CD packed with Self-Tests with individualized feedback. Key Terms Matching Activities, Lecture Videos and Discussion Questions, a Winning Handbook, an Accounting Cycle Tutorial, Career Information and much more! All of this isw designed to help you get the best grade you can in the course...and to give you the tools you need to take you where you want to go in your Career!

A web site takes you even further

When you buy a new copy of this text, you get access to a FREE powerful Companion Website featuring:

• Problems and Demonstration Problems from the text powered by the interactive eGrade software.
• Interactive Self-Study Questions and Self-Tests.
• Exploring the Web Exercises and more!

A world of extra help to keep you on the road!

• Solving Problems Using Excel—Excel templates that allow you to complete select end-of-chapter exercises and problems.
• Study Guide—a powerful tool that guides you through chapter content.
• Working Papers partially completed spreadsheets so you can concentrate on doing accounting rather than inputting data.
• Excel Working Papers—all the accounting forms you will need to successfully complete your study work for Managerial Accounting 2e.

You can buy these additional resources at your bookstore, or see the Wiley website for more details about all the roadside assistance available to you from Wiley!

About the Author

Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He Hold a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Professor Weygandt have appeared in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertible securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Professor Weygandt is author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association.In 2001 he received hte American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

Donald E. Kieso, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. He has served as chairman of the Department of Accountancy and is currently the KPMG Peat Marwick Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Northern Illinois University. He has public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse & Co. (San Francisco and Chicago) and Arthur Andersen & Co. (Chicaqgo) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He has done postdoctorate work as a Visiting Scholar at the Univresity of California at Berkeley and is a recipient of NIU's Teaching Excellence Award and four Golden Apple Teaching Awards. Professor Kieso is the author of other accounting and business books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Instutute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Illinois CPA Society. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the AACSB's Accounting Accreditation Commitees, the State of Illinois Comptroller's Commission, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of the American Accounting Association. Professor Kieso is currently serving on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Aurora University, as a member of the Board of Directors of Castle BancGroup Inc., and as Treasurer and Director of Valley West Community Hospital.

Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche (Minneapolis). He was the recipient of the UWM School of Business Advisory Council Teaching Award, the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award, and a three-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award for Honorary Distinction for his results on the CPA exam. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and has published articles in Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Advances in  Management Accounting, Managerial Finance, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, as well as other journals.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 720 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2nd edition (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471413658
• ISBN-13: 978-0471413653
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #536,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No solutions... How are you supposed to check your progress?, September 12, 2005

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This review is from: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making (Hardcover)

This book is good about listing the objectives and showing you exactly where to find the answers for the multiple choice questions. For example: What is the purpose of a job cost sheet? The book highlights the area where the answer is. Easy huh? Well, what about the actual accounting problems? The detailed problems at the end of each chapter have NO SOLUTIONS to them, and you can't buy a solutions guide unless you are an instructor! I'm not an accounting wizard, so I have to actually practice before it sticks in my brain... imagine that. I guess they expect everyone to see the problems and read about the problems and automatically get it. They work out a "Demonstration Problem" for you, but that only applies to some of the problems at the end of each chapter.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's Accounting, November 3, 2006

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D. J. Threepwood (AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making (Hardcover)

I bought this book for a Managerial accounting class. I found that chapters to be well written and the example easy to follow. Enron gets used a lot. What I didn't like was that problems in the back of the book are not as clear as they could be. Most of the time, I plug in the wrong formula. So that part could have been clearer. The answers are all on a CD, that access a website for the answers. So if you like me and still have dial-up, you may have a problem there too. However I am still pulling a B in the class, so I'm getting something.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Practical Book,Classic, January 26, 2006

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BookBreather "Breathe Good Books" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making (Hardcover)

Jerry really knows how to help people learn accounting. Learning accounting is about practising but not reading. Reading helps but it won't solve problems. The one thing I really appreciate about this book is Jerry uses real life accounting practice within companies from different industries to illustrate every single chapter, within which all the accounting theories and principals naturally flow. You can see all the kinds of accounting problems with actual number and data being solved with the application of relevant accounting theories,principals and methods. You know how real things are done. I have read many accounting books, among which loads of books lack exercises for me to practice after I read certain chapter. But buying Jerry's book, you get two books, one for reading, and one for exams. Nearly half of the book is Exam Questions, which emulate my real exams quite well. I can't believe an accounting without good exercise questions is an book. If you seriously want to pass exams and know how the real accounting is done,this is the book for you!