Accounting for dummies

Part 1: Opening the Books on Accounting. Accounting in today's new economy

Introducing financial statements

Safeguarding company assets

Accounting in the digital age

Recognizing the legal and accounting entity

Part.2: Exploring Financial Statements.: Reporting profit or loss in the income statement

Reporting financial condition in the balance sheet

Reporting cash sources and uses in the statement of cash flows

Financial accounting issues

Part 3: Understanidng financial reports, financial statements, and financial information. Producing Financial reports

Deciphering a financial report

Analyzing financial infformation with ratios

Generating internal financial information for management use

Applying Wall Street's tricks and treats to engineer financial results

Part 4. Leveraging accounting in managing a business. Analyzing profit

Accounting for costs

Preparing best-in-class forecasts, projections, and budgets

Capitalizing a business : how, when, why, and what

Part 5: The part of Tens. Ten tips for managers

Ten tips for reading a financial report.

Opening the Books on Accounting: Accounting Spoken Here

Introducing financial statements

Keeping the books and guarding the family jewels

Knowing the accounting entity

Exploring Financial Statements: Reporting profit or loss

Reporting financial condition in the balance sheet

Reporting cash sources and uses in the statement of cash flows

Financial accounting issues

Getting a financial report ready for release

Reading a financial report

Inside information for managers only

Analyzing profit

Accounting for costs

Budgeting

Ten tips for managers

Ten tips for reading a financial report Checking Your Preconceptions about Accounting; Thinking about where assets come from; Asking about profit; Sorting out stereotypes of accountants; Providing Vital Financial Information; Recognizing users of accounting information; Using accounting in your personal financial life; Seeing accounting at work; Taking a Peek behind the Scenes

Opening the books on accounting

Exploring financial statements

Accounting in managing a business

Preparing and using financial reports

The part of tens.

Opening the books on accounting

Figuring out financial statements

Accounting in managing a business

Preparing and using financial reports

The part of tens

Slashing through the accounting jargon jungle.

pt. 1: A first look at accounting. Strolling through the field of accounting

Getting to the bottom of the bottom line

Bookkeeping 101 : from shoeboxes to computers

Accounting and your personal finances.

pt. 2: Figuring out financial statements. Making and reporting profit

The genesis and reporting of financial condition

Cash sources and uses and reporting cash flows

Getting a financial report ready .

pt. 3" Accounting in managing a business. First things first : deciding the legal structure

Using accounting for managing profit

Budgeting profit and cash flow

Cost concepts and conundrums

pt. 4: Financial reports in the public domain. Keeping score : choosing and implementing accounting methods

How investors read a financial report

Audits, accounting fraud, and audit failures.

pt. 5: The part of tens. Ten profit and loss questions

Ten ways savvy business managers use accounting

Ten questions savvy investors ask when reading a financial report.