Financial Accounting For Dummies

3. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-394-41869-5
Verlag: Wiley John + Sons

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: For Dummies

Essential concepts and terminology to clarify business accounting for today’s economy

Financial Accounting For Dummies helps you decode the language of business, with clear explanations, practical examples, and updated guidance covering the latest GAAP standards. Learn the basics of decoding financial statements and keeping the books, along with more advanced topics like business investing. In this new edition, you’ll find new information on must-know topics like AI for accounting, keeping your data cybersecure, and accounting in specialty industries. Author and CPA Maire Loughran offers a friendly, accessible path to understanding how financial information is created, reported, and used. This timely and practical resource helps you stay ahead of the game in today’s fast-evolving financial landscape. - Gain a solid background in financial accounting concepts, with clear explanations and examples
- Learn about major changes to GAAP accounting standards, and apply GAAP to emerging industries
- Understand profit and loss, financial statements, and other accounting must-knows
- Manage a startup, launch a career in accounting, or brush up your knowledge

Financial Accounting For Dummies is a valuable resource for business generalists, accountants-to-be, and financial professionals alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loughran, Maire

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting a Financial Accounting Initiation 5
CHAPTER 1: Seeing the Big Picture of Financial Accounting 7
CHAPTER 2: Introducing the Big Three Financial Statements 23
CHAPTER 3: Running the Numbers for Success 37
CHAPTER 4: Acronym Alert! Setting the Standards for Financial Accounting 55

Part 2: Reviewing Some Accounting Basics 69
CHAPTER 5: Booking It: The Process Behind Financial Accounting 71
CHAPTER 6: Focusing on Accounting Methods and Concepts 93

Part 3: Spending Quality Time with the Balance Sheet 103
CHAPTER 7: Assessing the Balance Sheet's Asset Section 105
CHAPTER 8: Digging for Debt in the Liabilities Section 121
CHAPTER 9: Letting Owners Know Where They Stand: The Equity Section 137

Part 4: Investigating Income and Cash Flow 149
CHAPTER 10: Searching for Profit or Loss on the Income Statement 151
CHAPTER 11: Following the Money by Studying Cash Flow 173
CHAPTER 12: Examining Depreciation Cost Flow Assumptions 189
CHAPTER 13: Learning about Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions 205

Part 5: Analyzing the Financial Statements 219
CHAPTER 14: Using Ratios and Other Tools 221
CHAPTER 15: Got Your Dictionary Ready? Reading Explanatory Notes and Disclosures 237
CHAPTER 16: Studying the Report to the Shareholders 255

Part 6: Feeling Brave? Tackling More Advanced Financial Accounting Topics 269
CHAPTER 17: Accounting for Emerging Issues 271
CHAPTER 18: Accounting for Income Taxes 293
CHAPTER 19: Accounting for Leases 305
CHAPTER 20: Reporting Changes in Methods and the Correction of Errors 317

Part 7: The Part of Tens 331
CHAPTER 21: Ten Industries with Special Accounting Standards 333
CHAPTER 22: Ten Accounting Career Opportunities 343

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Maire Loughran, CPA, is a certified public accountant and small business owner with more than 25 years of experience in accounting and financial reporting. She is the author of several For Dummies titles including Auditing For Dummies and Intermediate Accounting For Dummies.