Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions - Hardcover

Ingram, Robert W.; Albright, Thomas L.; Baldwin, Bruce A.

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9780324183979: Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0324183976 ISBN 13: 9780324183979

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2003

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Now in its fifth edition, the primary goal of this text remains the same-teaching students to understand the impact of accounting information on a company's financial statements. The authors illustrate accounting not as a set of technical procedures, but as a way of identifying and understanding business problems and a means for evaluating alternative solutions. By organizing the text around the flow of information through a business, the authors provide students with a sound understanding of first, the accounting information system and then, an analysis of the financial, investing and operating activities of the firm. This approach is especially ideal for students who will become users of accounting information because concepts-not procedures---are emphasized.

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About the Author:

Robert W. Ingram is the Ross-Culverhouse Chair in the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at the University of Alabama. He teaches courses in financial accounting and has been actively involved in course curriculum development. He has served as Director of Education for the American Accounting Association, as a member of the Accounting Education Change Commission, and as editor of Issues in Accounting Education, a journal dedicated to accounting education research. Professor Ingram is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama, he held positions at the University of South Carolina and the University of Iowa, and a visiting appointment at the University of Chicago. His research, which examines financial reporting and accounting education, has been published widely in accounting and business journals. He is the recipient of the National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award and the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement in Research Award at the University of Alabama. He has also received the Notable Contribution to Literature Award of the Government and Nonprofit Section of the American Accounting Association and the Award for Excellence and Professional Contributions of the Alabama Association for Higher Education in Business. Professor Ingram is married and has two children. He and his family enjoy sports, travel, reading, music, and art. They live contentedly in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Review:

Still the best text I have seen that has a user orientation and does not have the bookkeeping emphasis. I like that it has a decision-making approach.

The text does a great job presenting accounting, reporting and analytical concepts without getting bogged down in details. .....I am very pleased with the text and supporting materials. Many of the supplements that you offer may indeed be beneficial to other instructors.

I am pleased with the focus on operating, investing, and financing activities and how accounting information is used in these decisions.

The text fits our objective very well especially since I teach accounting to non-accounting majors.

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