Principles of Accounting : A Focus on Analysis and Interpretation with Accounting Database Software
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Book Description
Now students can focus on analysis and interpretation while still gaining a strong understanding of the basics of accounting. Principles of Accounting, 8e, combines solid coverage of the accounting process with an unprecedented amount of actual company data and a strong user orientation. Numerous examples and problems drawn from actual life teach critical financial and managerial accounting principles. Intriguing "Analyzing Information" sections and corresponding problems form a unique building block series of questions and answers that further demonstrate the text's analysis theme.
About the Author
A. Douglas Hillman, Ph.D., CMA, is the Ailber Professor of Accounting at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He obtained a bachelor of arts degree in accounting from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1965. He received his master of science degree in accounting from the University of Denver in 1967, and at the University of Missouri?Columbia in 1970 he was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree in accounting. Dr. Hillman has been a professor of accounting at Drake since 1970; he is a certified management accountant.
Professor Hillman?s foremost teaching emphasis is in the principles of accounting course. His secondary teaching emphasis is in cost and managerial accounting at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He also teaches in the CPA Review and Certified Property and Casualty Underwriter Programs at Drake. Professor Hillman has been recognized on numerous occasions for his teaching excellence. HE has received the outstanding teach award from the College of Business at Drake University. HE has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Business and Director of the School go Accounting while at Drake.
Professor Hillman has published and presented papers in the Accounting Review, at the American Accounting Association meetings, and at numerous regional meetings, and he has been a regular contributor to the Certified Management Accounting examination. He does consulting in accounting information systems for small businesses and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. HE has served on committees of the American Accounting Association, the Federation of Schools of Auditing, and the Institute of Management Accountants. And he is the past chairman of the Information Systems/MAS Section of the American Accounting Association. Richard F. Kochanek, Ph.D., is a professor of accounting and the Accounting Department Head in the School of Business at the University of Connecticut. Professor Kochanek received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Massachusetts and his Ph.D. form the University of Missouri. He joined the accounting faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1972.
Although he has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, his primary teaching responsibility has been the accounting principles course. Professor Kochanek has received every outstanding teaching award the University of Connecticut offers. These include outstanding accounting professor, outstanding professor in the School of Business, the United Technologies Corporation outstanding undergraduate teaching award, outstanding MBA professor, and the Alumni Award for the outstanding teacher at the University of Connecticut. He was one of the first four faculty named as ?University Teaching Fellows.?
Professor Kochanek has published in The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Management Accounting, The CPA Journal, and Financial Executive. HE is a recipient of the Competitive Manuscript Contest Award of the American Accounting Association. Professor Kochanek has been a faculty intern with Price Waterhouse, and has conducted executive seminars in financial reporting issues for banks, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, and public accounting firms. Noah P. Barsky, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, is an assistant professor of accountancy in the College of Commerce and Finance at Villanova University. Professor Barsky received his B.S. and M.S. in accounting from Penn State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He joined the faculty at Villanova University in 1998.
Professor Barsky has taught a variety of financial and managerial accounting courses at four different universities. While he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, he was recognized as an American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow and a recipient of the Accounting Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor Barsky is an active member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. He has given research presentations at numerous national meetings of academic and professional associations. He has also authored two books and published articles in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, The Pennsylvania CPA Journal, and Managerial Finance.
Principles of Accounting : A Focus on Analysis and Interpretation with Accounting Database Software,Douglas Hillman,Richard F. Kochanek,Noah P. Barsky,Dame Publishing,0324103530,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,General,Business & Economics / Accounting / General
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