Financial Accounting Tutorial (8th Edition)

Author: Zhu Dan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Financial Accounting is a classic textbook by the internationally renowned accounting authority, Professor Charles T. Horngren, and is one of the best-selling financial accounting books on Amazon. It has been designated as a required reading by accounting professors at over 900 universities, including Stanford University, Northwestern University, New York University, and the European Business School, among others. The English 6th edition was translated into Chinese and published in 1998. In China, universities such as Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Beijing National Accounting College, and Xiamen University have adopted this book as their financial accounting textbook. This classic, best-selling textbook provides a relevant and practical approach to understanding and mastering financial accounting theory, terminology, and procedures. Readers can learn how to interpret typical corporate annual reports and how to use accounting as a tool to understand the impact of economic events on businesses. The teaching method of this textbook is excellent, and its flexible structure leaves teachers with ample freedom in selecting the breadth and depth of teaching, as well as the difficulty of theory and procedures. The book begins with simple concepts, then explains them in more complex layers once readers have a basic understanding, and uses real, current company cases at each stage to make the concepts more concrete and easier to grasp. A wide selection of supplementary materials also allows readers to go beyond the textbook and gain practical experience in the real world of financial accounting. This book believes that business is an exciting process, and accounting is a perfect window to help us understand the impact of economic events on business activities. We believe that accounting can help us understand economic events and establish a foundation of simple principles. In light of this, the book introduces some concepts earlier than other textbooks—our introduction of these concepts is not only simple and easy to understand but also accompanied by carefully selected real company cases. This book is written for the users of financial statements, but it can also fully meet the needs of future accounting practitioners. Financial Accounting 8th Edition emphasizes fundamental concepts, illustrated with rich examples to make them concrete, with many examples selected from the most recent annual reports of companies. Additionally, the book appropriately introduces accounting procedures such as transaction analysis, journalizing, and posting.