Overview

1) The book functions as a comprehensive, yet very user-friendly step-by-step introduction to financial accounting. The book includes a unique self-study feature otherwise available only in expensive textbooks used exclusively for the classroom: the book contains both practice tests and answers and over 900 questions and problems, all with fully-available detailed answers included in the book's CD and online for desktop and mobile use (See page xix: ''How to Use This Book.'') 2) The book functions as a practical reference for bookkeepers, managers, owners, and investors who need to understand accounting methods and who use accounting information. (Some examples, see: other closing techniques 273, completing the cycle 288, alternate inventory methods 315, 321, 358, 437, 711, take a discount? 446, new information systems 512, depreciation misconceptions 747, accounting software checklist 918, reversing and correcting entries -- on disk, cash budgeting -- on disk).

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''Summing up: Recommended. General readers and lower division and technical program students.'' -- S.R. Kahn, Univ. of Cincinnati Choice ''...A step-by-step building block approach is used where one topic fluently builds into the next topic to ensure an incremental learning approach... In summary, the two-volume set provides a very economical and complete first-course coverage.'' -- Kim B. Tan, California State University Issues in Accounting Education

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Gregory Mostyn, CPA, MBA, is an accounting instructor at Mission College, Santa Clara California. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has extensive experience in accounting curriculum and instructional design and has authored journal articles on the subject. (E.g. see ''Cognitive Load Theory: What It Is, Why It's Important for Accounting Instruction and Research''; Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2012). He has applied many of these principles to the development and design of this book.

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