Product Description

Learn the basics of practical accounting easily and painlessly with Accounting For Dummies, 4th Edition, which features new information on accounting methods and standards to keep you up to date. With this guide, you can avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics with this plain–English guide to your accountant’s language. Understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7027 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

Review
“…insightful and well–reasoned…” (Money Matters, October 2004)

From the Author
Accounting For Dummies makes accounting easy for everyone!
This book works for business people, students, and everyday people such as: managers, owners, lenders, investors, bookkeepers, accounting employees, and entrepreneurs. Accounting For Dummies will help improve your grip on financial reports, profit behavior, and cash flow. You'll no longer be intimidated by accountants! It explains accounting information to everyone - from professionals to lay persons serving on their church finance committees.

Accounting For Dummies is very user-friendly and avoids financial jargon. It empowers the reader to make sense of financial statements and provides an easy reference format for specific questions.

I am a Professor of Accounting at the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder and have written two other books on finance. I have had many years experience explaining accounting and financial statements to managers and investors. I welcome comments or questions via my e-mail address - tracyj@colorado.edu.

From the Back Cover
Features new information on accounting methods and standards

The fun and easy way to create great financials and boost your bottom line

Want to make sense of accounting basics? This plain–English guide helps you speak your accountant′s language with ease, minimizing confusion as you maximize profits. You′ll see how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.

Discover how to:

• Read income statements and balance sheets

• Analyze profits and cash flow

• Evaluate accounting methods and business structures

• Use ratios to study financial statements

• Avoid accounting fraud

Customer Reviews

Adequate as a non-accountants' everyday reference
The content is simple with material presented in the usual 'dummie' tradition. It works great as a quick way to understand hard concepts, without going into too much distracting detail. A good reference for people who interface with accountants or accounting departments, but accounting students will find that the material is not detailed enough for cases covered in a typical accounting course. Is it the 'feel good accounting book of the year?' I dunno...but like any other dummies book, buy it for the funny cartoons.

Good book, but it was hard to understand.
I found it very difficult to understand as I am an idiot, but the different colored grey boxes displaying "Quick information" led me away from the body of the text and created confusion for myself.

Helpful
Finding this really helpful to cover off areas I've not had too much experience on as yet.