Accounting

Australian authors: Peter Best (BCom, MEngSci, PhD) is Professor and Head of Department of Accounting, Economics, Finance & Property at CQ University, Australia. Peter is a Fellow of CPA Australia and an Associate of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. He has acted as consultant to a variety of accounting firms, companies and government departments both in Australia and overseas. His specialist teaching areas include accounting information systems, auditing, information systems auditing and forensic accounting.  Roger Willett (BA Hons, PhD) is a Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Roger is a member of CPA Australia and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. His teaching areas include financial accounting, financial accounting theory and research methods. Roger worked for a number of years as a chartered accountant. He is currently an Associate Editor of Abacus and is on the editorial boards of the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and Accounting & Finance. Roger is co-author of previous editions of Horngren's Accounting and Financial Accounting. Rebecca Tan (BCom Hons, PhD, CPA) is Deputy Director (Education) and Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the Australian National University (ANU). Rebecca is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Her research focuses on teamwork in accounting education, management accounting processes and practices, accounting policy choices in the financial accounting and reporting area, corporate sustainability reporting, and organisational behaviour research. David Keene (BBS, MBS, BA Hons) is a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Economics, Finance & Property at CQ University, Australia. David joined academia after briefly working as an accountant in public practice. He has taught at Massey University and the University of Southern Queensland. David is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ). He currently coordinates the second and third year undergraduate financial accounting units at CQ University. The U.S authors: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, CPA, received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in accounting from Texas A&M University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in adult learning, also at Texas A&M University. She is an Associate Professor at Austin Community College, Austin, TX. Tracie has taught as an adjunct professor at University of Texas and has public accounting experience with Deloitte Tax LLP and Sample & Bailey, CPAs. Tracie is a recipient of the Texas Society of CPAs Rising Star Award, TSCPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, NISOD Teaching Excellence Award, and the Aims Community College Excellence in Teaching Award. Brenda L. Mattison has a Bachelor's degree in education and a Master's degree in accounting, both from Clemson University. She is currently an Accounting Instructor at Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, South Carolina. She has presented at several conferences on topics including active learning, course development, and student engagement. In her spare time, Brenda enjoys reading and spending time with her family. Ella Mae Matsumura, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is affiliated with the university's Center for Quick Response Manufacturing. She received an A.B. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia. Ella Mae has won two teaching excellence awards at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was elected as a lifetime fellow of the university's Teaching Academy, formed to promote effective teaching. 

1. The role of accounting in decision making
2. Recording business transactions
3. The adjusting process
4. Completing the accounting cycle
5. Retailing operations
6. Retail inventory
7. Accounting information systems
8. Internal control and cash
9. Receivables
10. Non-current assets: property, plant and equipment and intangibles
11. Current liabilities and payroll
12. Non-current liabilities, debentures payable and classification of liabilities on the balance sheet
13. Partnerships
14. Companies: formation and shareholders' equity
15. Companies: capital management and the income statement
16. The cash flow statement
17. The framework of accounting
18. Financial statement analysis
19. Introduction to management accounting: The master budget
20. Job costing
21. Cost-volume-profit analysis
22. Short-term business decisions
23. Capital investment decisions and time value of money

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