This volume contains the first twenty chapters (the financial accounting chapters) from Accounting Principles, Third Editioni by the same authors. As in the full book this version has been designed to make the accounting experience interesting and meaningful. Each chapter opens with real-life scenarios that illustrate how accounting relates to students' lives. Provides insight into business, ethics and international problems as well as challenges accountants face and accounting's role in dealing with these issues. Technology in Action boxes demonstrate how computers continue to revolutionize accounting, how they are used in today's accounting practice as well as an idea of what the future holds. Features scores of demonstration problems, self-study questions and exercises.
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Donald E. Kieso, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor's degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. He 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. (Chicago) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He has done post-doctorate work as a Visiting Scholar at the University 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 Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Illinois CPA Society. He 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.
