Accounting Principles I Made Easy: A Self-Help Guide for Business Professionals

Five Stars Excellent!. "A Great Reference Guide For Business Professionals and Students" according to Dan. Excellent book and extremely helpful! I'm and entrepreneur and restaurant franchisee, and I have accountants do all of the dirty work, but this book has helped me gain a better understanding of the accounting principles that allow me to have in depth conversations with my accountant so that I can better run my businesses and keep them profitable. Great job. Five Stars Best Accounant ever!

This guide is full of learning tools and memory devices that take complex concepts and simplify them in such a way that makes them easy to understand in everyday terms. James Wiley has taken approximately 750 pages of a typical Accounting Principles I textbook and summarized it in fewer than 100 pages. The topics covered in this book include recording business transactions, financial statements presentation, accruals and deferrals, accounting for merchandisers, inventory reporting, cash controls, receivables, long lived assets, liabilities, stockholder equity, statement of cash flows, and ratio analysis. Accounting is considered the universal language of business, and failure to fully comprehend this language can result in negative consequences in the business world. Accounting is arguably one of the most difficult subjects to comprehend for business professionals. It's not every day that a user-friendly guide to understanding accounting principles comes along and changes the way you learn it. Whether you are reading this book as a prelude to get ahead of your peers and colleague