Part One Fundamental Accounting
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Accounting
1.1 The Nature of Accounting
1.2 The History and Development of Accounting
1.3 Users of Accounting Information
1.4 Accounting Profession
1.5 Managerial Accounting and Financial Accounting
1.5.1 Managerial Accounting
1.5.2 Financial Accounting
1.5.3 Managerial Accounting versus Financial Accounting
1.6 Ethics and Accounting
1.6.1 Ethics in Business
1.6.2 Ethics in Your Future Career
Summary of Learning Objectives
Accounting Vocabulary
Notes to the Text
Reading Material
Assignment
Chapter 2 The Accounting Equation and the Account
2.1 Types of Business Organizations
2.2 The Accounting Equation
2.3 The Effects of Business Transactions on the Accounting Equation
2.4 The Account
2.4.1 The T Account
2.4.2 Management’s Use of Accounts
2.4.3 The Ledger
2.4.4 Types of Commonly Used Accounts
2.4.5 Titles of Accounts
Summary of Learning Objectives
Accounting Vocabulary
Notes to the Text
Reading Material
Assignment
Chapter 3 Recording Business Transactions
3.1 Double-Entry Bookkeeping
3.2 Ways of Recording Business Transactions
3.2.1 Recording Transactions in Journals
3.2.2 Posting from the Journal to the Ledger
3.3 Illustrative Problem
3.4 The Trial Balance
Summary of Learning Objectives
Accounting Vocabulary
Notes to the Text
Reading Material
Assignment
Chapter 4 Basic Financial Statements
4.1 Financial Statements
4.1.1 The Balance Sheet
4.1.2 The Income Statement
4.1.3 The Statement of Owner’s Equity