The Accounting Game

The Accounting Game
Author: Darrell Mullis
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140223161X

A clear, easy-to-understand explanation of key financial accounting basics. The world of accounting can be intimidating. Whether you're a manager, business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or taking a college course in accounting, you'll find yourself need to know the basics...but baffled by complicated accounting books. What if learning accounting could be as simple and fun as running a child's lemonade stand? It can. The Accounting Game presents financial information in a format so simple and so unlike a common accounting textbook, you may forget you're learning skills that will help you get ahead! Using the world of a child's lemonade stand to teach the basics of managing your finances, this book makes a dry subject fun and understandable. As you run your stand, you'll begin to understand and apply financial terms and concepts like assets, liabilities, earnings, inventory and notes payable, plus: Interactive format gives you hands-on experience Color-coded charts and worksheets help you remember key terms Step-by-step process takes you from novice to expert with ease Fun story format speeds retention of essential concepts Designed to apply what you learn to the real world The revolutionary approach of The Accounting Game takes the difficult subjects of accounting and business finance and makes them something you can easily learn, understand, remember and use! Praise for The Accounting Game: "The game approach makes the subject matter most understandable. I highly recommend it to anyone frightened by either numbers or accountants." —John Hernandis, Director of Corporate Communications, American Greetings "Fantastic Learning Tool...Don't let this book title fool you. It is not an oversimplification of accounting and financial principles. It is, however, a serious and very effective examination of a very small but progressively complex business. There are not many books available on the market that make a complex and dry subject understandable and even fun. This book successfully does just that." —Amazon Reviewer

Profit First

Profit First
Author: Mike Michalowicz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 073521414X

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of.

Accounting for Everyone

Accounting for Everyone
Author: Quentin Pain
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781466289666

If you want to become a qualified bookkeeper, want to run your business more efficiently, or want to run your own bookkeeping business this book is for you. The Accounting for Everyone bookkeeping course takes you from your first transaction right through to the balance sheet in dead easy stages, step by step. By the time you get to advanced subjects such as depreciation, accruals and pre-payments you will be able to grasp the concepts with ease. You will understand exactly how a transaction goes via debits and credits, through day-books and journals, into ledgers, the profit and loss account and how all of that is compiled into a balance sheet. Accounting is easy, it's just the jargon that lets people down. Throughout the book are worked examples and tasks for you to complete, together with blank tables for your answers. The bookkeeping course is applicable to most countries and also covers Sales Tax (USA), VAT (UK and Europe) and GST (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Austria and others).

Intermediate Financial Accounting

Intermediate Financial Accounting
Author: Glenn Arnold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2020
Genre: Accounting
ISBN:

"Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 2 by G. Arnold and S. Kyle, developed in collaboration by Athabasca University and Lyryx, is intended for the second of two in Intermediate Financial Accounting courses. It presumes that students have already completed the Introductory Financial Accounting, and the first Intermediate Financing Accounting course. The textbook reflects both current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and ASPE. This textbook covers all topics essential to a second level Intermediate Accounting course: current, long-term and complex liabilities, income taxes, pensions, leases, shareholders’ equity, earnings per share, statement of cash flows including the direct approach, effects of changes and errors, and disclosures and analysis. Topics that are covered in Advanced Financial Accounting courses, such as consolidations and foreign exchange, are not included here. For those requiring preparation for CPA designation, competencies as outlined by the CPA are addressed in this textbook. For a detailed competency map, please contact us at [email protected]."--BCcampus website.

Principles of Accounting Volume 1 - Financial Accounting

Principles of Accounting Volume 1 - Financial Accounting
Author: Mitchell Franklin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1056
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781680922912

The text and images in this book are in grayscale. A hardback color version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680922929. Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today's college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the "why" as well as the "how" aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.