Product Description

The #1 market-leading text for financial accounting. Meets the needs of both preparer-and user-oriented faculty. The Fourth edition is streamlined, rewritten to improve readability, and enhanced technology package. New "Checkpoint Exercises" serve as warm-ups/confidence-builders. New "Decision Guidelines with Excel Exercises" help ALL students to understand how to use accounting information to make good business decisions. Includes a PHLIP/CW web site with on-line study guide, and free, downloadable tutorial and general ledger software. The new distance learning course includes rich course content and is available in WebCT, Blackboard, and eCollege platforms.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3119059 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 706 pages

From the Back Cover

Ace this Class! Read Your Book

Your professors have chosen the best-selling financial accounting textbook for your financial accounting course. Read each chapter before class, pay careful attention to the "warm-up" Check Point Exercises, and come prepared to participate actively in the classroom lectures.

Test your understanding of chapter materials before class and exams with the free online Study Guide at www.prenhall.com/harrison

• 4 Quizzes per chapter
• Hints to help you make the best choices
• Feedback on correct and incorrect answers

Check out the "Study Hall" area for study tips, research tools, a student chat room, and other resources to help you improve your accounting grade.

PH Re-Enforcer Software
The Windows-based tutorial software enables you to test your understanding of key concepts through a variety of exercise types (multiple-choice, T-account, Financial Statement Analysis) with immediate feedback. A "Quick Tour" tutorial provides an overview of the program.

PHAS General Ledger
This Windows-based software reinforces accounting procedures through hands-on activity. PHAS General Ledger software includes problem templates for you to enter your own problems and complete the entire accounting cycle: journalize, post, print multiple reports, and close. A "Quick Tour" overviews the program and gives online "Help."

Don't wait until the night before the exam to ask for help. Talk toy your instructor during and after class about any questions you may have. You can also get help from an Accounting faculty member using the "Ask the Tutor" feature under the "Study Hall" section of the Web site www.prenhall.com/harrison that accompanies this text.