College Accounting, Chapters 1-29
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Book Description
This text presents concepts simply while ensuring the best, most accurate coverage. College Accounting is designed to make accounting understandable to virtually everyone without sacrificing substance and technical correctness. A step-by-step, straightforward approach helps readers build practical accounting skills that are needed when entering the world of work. The text presents simple topics first and gradually builds to more advanced topics, so learners are not overwhelmed. The narrative approach covers a simpler example of a service business before moving to a merchandising business, and finally, a manufacturing environment.
About the Author
Jim Heintz is in his third year as Professor and Director of the Accounting and Information Systems Division in the School of Business at the University of Kansas. He previously was Accounting Department Head at the University of Connecticut for eight years, and an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor during 20 years at Indiana University. His doctorate is from Washington University in St Louis and he is a CPA (Illinois).
Professor Heintz was a Price Waterhouse Faculty Fellow at Indiana and an Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at Connecticut, and is currently the Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow at Kansas. While at Indiana, he won three teaching awards from the Doctoral Student Association. At Indiana and Connecticut, he served in various capacities on 23 doctoral dissertation committees.
Jim Heintz has published numerous articles in accounting and business journals, including The Accounting Review; Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; Accounting and Business Research; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; and International Journal of Accounting Education and Research. He served on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory for seven years.
Professor Heintz has served on various committees of the AAA and the FSA, and currently is president of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group of the AAA. He has participated in external reviews of accounting programs at five major universities and is currently a member of the Accounting Accreditation Committee of the AACSB. Rob Parry is Professor of Accounting at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington Indiana, where he has served for the past 21 years as an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, and as the Ernst and Young Faculty Fellow. He earned a B.S. in Business Education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, an MBA at the University of Scranton, and a Ph.D. in Business and Economics at Lehigh University.
Professor Parry has taught accounting at virtually all levels. While earning his MBA, he taught accounting at Bishop Klonowski High School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While earning his Ph.D., he also taught financial and managerial accounting at Northhampton County Community College and Lehigh University. At Indiana, he has taught in the Undergraduate, MBA, MBA in Accounting, Master of Professional Accountancy, and Ph. D. Programs. He has won a dozen teaching excellence awards and has been twice recognized by Business Week as one of the country's Outstanding MBA Faculty. In addition, he was awarded the Indiana University Distinguished Service Award for his efforts in planning and deploying a new, integrated, MBA Core Program, and a Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award for his efforts in curriculum design and implementation in the Master of Professional Accountancy Program.
College Accounting, Chapters 1-29,James A. Heintz,Robert W. Parry,South-Western College Pub,0324201478,Accounting,Accounting - Financial,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Business & Economics / Accounting / General
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