Financial & managerial accounting: the basis for business decisions JAN R. WILLIAMS, University of Tennessee; SUSAN F. HAKA, Michigan State University; MARK S. BETTNER, Bucknell University; JOSEPH V. CARCELLO, University of Tennessee

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Accounting: information for decision makingBasic financial statements -- The accounting cycle : capturing economic events -- The accounting cycle : accruals and deferrals -- The accounting cycle : reporting financial results -- Comprehensive problem -- Merchandising activities -- Financial assets -- Inventories and the cost of goods sold -- Comprehensive problem 2 -- Plant and intangible assets -- Macrs 400 -- Liabilities -- Stockholders' equity : paid-in capital -- Comprehensive problem 3 -- Income and changes in retained earnings -- Statement of cash flows -- Financial statement analysis -- Comprehensive problem 4 -- Global business and accounting -- Management accounting : a business partner -- Job order cost systems and overhead allocations -- Process costing -- Costing and the value chain -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Incremental analysis -- Comprehensive problem 5 -- Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing -- Operational budgeting -- Standard cost systems -- Rewarding business performance -- Comprehensive problem 6 -- Capital budgeting -- A Home depot 2012 financial statements -- B The time value of money : future amounts and present values -- C Forms of business organization -- Index.