Barron's Accounting Handbook


Book Description

The newly updated edition of this authoritative reference volume deserves a place in the library of every accountant, bookkeeper, accounting manager, CPA, CFO, controller, business manager, and business student. An opening overview of financial accounting describes financial statements and presents details on financial reporting requirements and compliance, and USA GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). Chapters that follow cover cost management, as well as taxation forms and their preparation. An extensive A-to-Z dictionary of accounting terms presents short-entry definitions of everything from Abacus and Absorption Costing to Zero-Base Budgeting and Z Score. The book's concluding chapters cover information technology in accounting, quantitative methods for accounting, auditing, personal financial planning, governmental and nonprofit accounting, international accounting, and forensic accounting. Appendices cover recent accounting-related legislation, financial reporting differences among different countries, and more.




Accounting Handbook


Book Description

Reflecting current tax laws, this comprehensive reference volume covers financial and cost accounting, business and individual tax preparation, computer applications of accounting, quantitative accounting methods, auditing, personal financial planning, and governmental and nonprofit accounting. Includes 500-page dictionary that defines 2,500 accounting terms, charts, graphs, and tables.




Accounting


Book Description

Barron's Business Review Books make excellent supplements to college textbooks. They are also popular as main texts in adult education courses and business brush-up programs. You'll find key business terms defined, important concepts reviewed, and pertinent examples of business transactions summarized. Topics examined in Accounting include the accounting equation, the various financial statements and their functions, the process of recording business transactions, special journals and controls, assets and liabilities, inventories, payroll with up-to-date withholding tax tables and current rates as well as government regulations, and much more. Book jacket.




Handbook of Cost Management


Book Description

Handbook of Cost Management, Second Edition covers all of the essential topics in cost management and accounting. It includes conventional topics, such as job costing and cost allocation, as well as such current topics as balanced scorecard, economic value added, logistics and marketing cost, theory of constraints, inter-organizational costing, and the cost of quality.




Barron's Real Estate Handbook


Book Description

Expanded and updated, this popular reference alphabetically lists and defines more than 2,000 terms pertaining to real estate. Topics covered include mortgages, tax laws, engineering, architecture, and all important aspects of buying and selling. Includes financial tables, typical legal forms, and a bibliography. Line drawings.




What Every Engineer Should Know about Accounting and Finance


Book Description

Presents the fundamental finance and accounting processes, methods, strategies and terminology necessary for engineers and engineering managers to interpret financial data properly - examining topics such as cost and break-even analysis, the time value of money, financial ratios and discounted cash flow techniques. The information is designed to enable engineers and project managers to prepare, appraise, evaluate and approve financial plans to accomplish specific departmental and company objectives.







Dictionary of Accounting Terms


Book Description

This updated edition defines approximately 2,500 terms specific to accounting and other business-related practices. It makes an ideal quick-reference handbook for business managers, accountants, bookkeepers, and business students. It also features a glossary of abbreviations and acronyms and a handy set of compounded value tables.




Financial Management


Book Description

Here’s a practical handbook for owners and managers of small-to-medium size businesses with advice on controlling the company’s financial resources, purchasing and amortizing capital equipment, projecting operating costs, and meeting ongoing expenses. The authors offer guidance in understanding and analyzing financial statements, the time-value of money, making capital budgeting decisions, and much more. Appendices include a list of online Internet resources and short descriptions of Excel financial and investment functions. The third edition has been updated with new information on SEC reporting requirements, managing dependent-demand inventories, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more.




Financial Statement Analysis


Book Description

Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide Third Edition "This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how they can be used to analyze the financial health of a company." -Professor Jay O. Light Harvard Business School "Financial Statement Analysis should be required reading for anyone who puts a dime to work in the securities markets or recommends that others do the same." -Jack L. Rivkin Executive Vice President (retired) Citigroup Investments "Fridson and Alvarez provide a valuable practical guide for understanding, interpreting, and critically assessing financial reports put out by firms. Their discussion of profits-'quality of earnings'-is particularly insightful given the recent spate of reporting problems encountered by firms. I highly recommend their book to anyone interested in getting behind the numbers as a means of predicting future profits and stock prices." -Paul Brown Chair-Department of Accounting Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU "Let this book assist in financial awareness and transparency and higher standards of reporting, and accountability to all stakeholders." -Patricia A. Small Treasurer Emeritus, University of California Partner, KCM Investment Advisors "This book is a polished gem covering the analysis of financial statements. It is thorough, skeptical and extremely practical in its review." -Daniel J. Fuss Vice Chairman Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP