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| Preface | |
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| How to Speak Accounting | |
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| The Three Questions | |
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| Visualize to Understand | |
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| The Accounting System | |
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| Accounting from the Bottom Up | |
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| Double Entry | |
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| Bookkeeping and Accounting | |
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| Financial Statements | |
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| Accounting Principles | |
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| The Fundamental Equations of Accounting | |
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| The Advantages of an Accounting System | |
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| A Few Important Details | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 1 | |
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| Concepts and Principles, Checks and Balances | |
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| Closing the GAAP | |
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| Zen Accounting | |
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| Checks and Balances | |
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| Audits | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 2 | |
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| Financial Statements | |
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| The Lemonade Stand | |
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| Load, Wash, Rinse, Spin, Dry | |
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| Past as Prologue | |
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| The Income Statement | |
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| Statement of Cash Flows | |
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| The Balance Sheet | |
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| A Delicate Balance: The Adjusting Entries | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 3 | |
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| Financial Ratios | |
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| What Measures Performance? | |
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| Liquidity Ratios | |
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| Activity Ratios | |
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| Debt Ratios | |
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| Profitability Ratios | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 4 | |
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| Management Accounting | |
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| Management Accounting--for the Future | |
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| Cost/Volume/Profit Analysis | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 5 | |
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| Management Cost Accounting | |
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| Cost Behavior, Inventory, and Overhead | |
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| General Widget Company | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 6 | |
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| Cost Accounting in Action | |
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| Why the Fuss? | |
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| Job-Order and Process Costing Systems | |
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| As Complex as ABC | |
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| Standard Costing | |
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| Static and Flexible Budgeting | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 7 | |
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| Other Management Accounting Systems | |
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| They Want It, but They Don't Want It--Yet They Still Need It | |
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| Balanced Scorecard | |
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| Hybrid Costing | |
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| Just-in-Time Inventory | |
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| Operation Costing Systems | |
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| Environmental/Full Cost Accounting | |
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| Target Costing | |
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| Transfer Pricing | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 8 | |
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| Taxation | |
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| The Principal Taxes | |
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| Corporate Income and Deduction Tax Issues | |
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| Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) | |
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| Tax Credits | |
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| Tax Practice | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 9 | |
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| Advanced Fraud | |
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| Fraud--Here, There, and Everywhere | |
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| Sarbanes-Oxley Act | |
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| Employment Trust Fund Fraud | |
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| External Fraud | |
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| Beginning Finance | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 10 | |
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| Where Will All This New Knowledge Take You? | |
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| A Story | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Manager's Checklist for Chapter 11 | |
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| Resources, Accounting for Managers | |
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| Index | |