Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Accounting Process
  • 2. Beginning with Business Cash Flows--An Illustration
  • 3. General Purpose Financial Statements--An Illustration
  • 4. The Balance Sheet--An Illustration 5. Illustrative Income Statement and Statement of Cash Flows
  • 6. Accounting Conventions and Assumptions
  • 7. The Income Statement
  • 8. Operating Revenues
  • 9. Cost of Goods Sold and Operating Expenses
  • 10. Manufacturing Costs
  • 11. Process Costs and Standard Costs
  • 12. Inventory Flows to Cost of Goods Sold
  • 13. Depreciation, Depletion, and Amortization
  • 14. Nonoperating Revenues and Expenses Including Income Taxes, Discontinued Operations, Extraordinary Items, and Accounting Changes
  • 15. Earnings Per Share
  • 16. The Income Statement, Owners' Equity, and Retained Earnings
  • 17. The Income Statment and the Statement of Cash Flows
  • 18. Mergers and Consolidated Income Statments
  • 19. Contents of the Annual Report
  • 20. Content of the Annual Report--Footnotes and Supplementary Information
  • 21. Comparative Analysis
  • 22. Ratio Analysis
  • 23. The Quality of Earnings
  • 24. Income Statements of Foreign Companies
  • Index.