Financial accounting /
Walter B. Meigs, Charles E. Johnson, and A.N Mosich
- New York : McGraw Hill Education, c1970
- xiii, 605 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
1. Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions -- 2. Recording Changes in Financial Condition -- 3. Measuring Business Income -- 4. End-of-Period Adjustments -- 5. Accounting for Purchases and Sales of Merchandise -- 6. Data-Processing System: Manual, Mechanical, Electronic -- 7. Forms of Business Organization -- 8. Corporations: Retained Earnings, Dividends, and Book Value -- 9. Cash and Investments in Securities -- 10. Receivables -- 11. Inventories -- 12. Liabilities -- 13. Plant and Equipment, Depreciation, Natural Resources, and Intangibles --14. Consolidated and Financial Statements -- 15. Accounting Principles and The Publicly owned Corporations -- 16. Analysis of Financial Statements; Funds Statement and Cash Flows -- 17. Taxes and Their Effect on Business Decisions.
This short text is intended as a one-semester introduction to accounting. It is suitable for courses of 3 to 4 semester-hours' credit or, for schools on the quarter systems, courses of 4 to 6 quarter-hours' credit. To shorten the courses still further, if necessary, Chapters 6,14, and 17 may be omitted, without loss of continuity.