Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses

Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil

Thomson/South-Western, 2006 - Business & Economics - 704 pages

This widely respected financial accounting text captures the predominant market share among graduate, MBA, and higher-level undergraduate programs. With great clarity, it presents both the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the terminology and methods that allow students to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements.

About the author

Roman L. Weil, Ph.D., CPA, is the V. Duane Rath Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Chicago and has within recent years been Visiting Professor at the Haas School of the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; Harvard Law School; Princeton University; and New York University. He has designed and implemented continuing education programs for partners at two of the large accounting firms and for employees at several operating corporations. Dr. Weil has co-authored dozens of books. His lay articles have appeared in Barron's and The Wall Street Journal. He has published more than 80 articles in academic and professional journals, most recently on financial literacy for corporate governance and on the exposure of wine snobbery.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses; Available Titles CengageNOW Series
• Authors: Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Thomson/South-Western, 2006
• ISBN: 0324222971, 9780324222975
• Length: 704 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Accounting / Financial; Business & Economics / Accounting / General; Business & Economics / Finance / General