Target success for your accounting students with this market bestseller! This introductory text covers all of the key financial and management accounting topics, and is crafted for students with no prior accounting experience. Accounting, 5/E will motivate your students by introducing them to the accounting issues facing companies such as Target, Nantucket Nectars, Teva, Oracle, and a variety of companies doing e-Business. And, the Target Annual Report is packaged free with new copies of the text. Students can also assess their understanding of concepts with the new “CyberCoach” and “Daily Exercise” features,“Working It Out” problems, and unique “Concept Links.”

• The text is available in four versions: Cloth Chapters 1-26, new Cloth Chapters 1-18 (just the financial chapters), or convenient Paperback Splits of Chapters 1-13 and 12-26.

• All major topics are taught within the “Horngren System”—Students are taught a topic, they then see how that topic relates to the real business world (application), followed-up by a step-by-step review (“Work It Out”).

• Students love Horngren/Harrison/Bamber! See the student testimonials on the website.

• The technology package is unmatched in quantity, quality, and variety of on-line tools, videos, tutorial and general ledger software, and the new “Getting Started” series of free manuals on QuickBooks, Peachtree, and Simply Accounting.

• Chapter Opening Vignettes and On Location! Videos—The Chapter-Opening Vignettes thrust your students into the real world of accounting—where business decisions affect the future of actual organizations including NetGenesis, Target, Oracle, and Teva.

  • Most Chapter-Opening Vignettes are linked to our unique, custom-created On Location! Videos. Each 4-10 minute segment video introduces students to the actual business professionals at each company who are using accounting information to enhance the success of their organizations.

• NEW - e-Accounting Boxes—Horngren/Harrison/Bamber's new e-Accounting boxes focus your students on the accounting issues affecting companies doing business on the World Wide Web.

• NEW - CyberCoach—At three times in each chapter, the CyberCoach icon guides students to online assessment exercises, with immediate feedback.

  • At the beginning of each chapter, students check to see if they've mastered concepts covered in the previous chapter.

  • At the chapter midpoint, students can check to see if they've learned chapter topics up to this point.

  • At the end of each chapter, students can see if they've mastered the chapter content as a whole.

With CyberCoach, students can check their answers and monitor their progress as they learn. Now they're better prepared for class, for homework assignments, and examinations.

• Daily Exercises—These unique end-of-chapter, single-concept exercises appear at the ends of chapters at the beginning of the assignment material. Using numerous real-world companies, the Daily Exercises serve as warm-ups or confidence builders. Each is linked to the chapter (in the side margin) so that students may refer back for additional assistance as needed.

• Decision Guidelines with NEW Excel Application Problems—Decision Guidelines are designed to show when, why, and how all managers—not just accountants use accounting information to make good business decisions.

  • 8 Decision Guidelines now include optional Excel Application problems for a hands-on approach to solving Excel-based accounting problems like whether to use FIFO, LIFO or WAM.

• Work It Out—These in-text review exercises provide students with the opportunity to pause and review the material they've just learned. Detailed answers accompany each exercises.

• Concept Links—Points students to earlier topics that are relevant to the new material being introduced. The margin links provide both a rationale for the material and a text page for easy reference.

• NEW - Online courses in Standard WebCT, Blackboard, and Pearson CourseCompass—Contains rich pre-loaded content specifically designed for an online course in principles of accounting. No other textbook or course offers this extensive amount of content delivered in a variety of ways to address different student learning styles.

  • Students first listen to audio lectures that accompany the PowerPoints.

  • Then they watch a video of an accounting faculty member explaining the key points of the topic.

  • Next they watch a brief On Location! Video to see how the concepts presented are relevant to issues real companies are wrestling with today.

  • Finally students review the “Helpful Hints” for a summary of the content covered in each chapter.

• NEW - Student CD-ROM—Packaged free with special versions (new copies only) of any Horngren text. CD contains: PH Re-Enforcer Tutorial Software, General Ledger Software, PowerPoints, On Location! Videos, Spreadsheet Templates, and Excel Tutorial.

• NEW - “Getting Started” Series of manuals on Peachtree Complete 6.0, QuickBooks Pro 2001, and Simply Accounting 8.0—Package your choice of one of these brief manuals free the NEW copies of the student text. In addition, you can package your choice of the full software for Peachtree Complete Release 8.0 (a $200.00 value) or Simply Accounting 8.0 (A $150.00 value) for only $10.00 net with new copies of the student text.

• NEW - “Mastering Accounting” CD-ROM—Students watch professionally written, acted, and filmed videos about a fictional Internet start-up company to see how accounting concepts are related to workplace events and challenges. They then complete a variety of interactive exercises. The topics covered are all linked to the core concepts in the first-year accounting sequence. Can be packaged with the textbook for a nominal price.

  • An excellent tool for cross-functional learning and to help students see the relevance of accounting in their future.

• e-Accounting Boxes—Horngren/Harrison/Bamber's new e-Accounting boxes focus your students on the accounting issues affecting companies doing business on the World Wide Web.

• CyberCoach—At three times in each chapter, the CyberCoach icon guides students to online assessment exercises, with immediate feedback.

  • At the beginning of each chapter, students check to see if they've mastered concepts covered in the previous chapter.

  • At the chapter midpoint, students can check to see if they've learned chapter topics up to this point.

  • At the end of each chapter, students can see if they've mastered the chapter content as a whole.

• Online courses in Standard WebCT, Blackboard, and Pearson CourseCompass—Contains rich pre-loaded content specifically designed for an online course in principles of accounting. No other textbook or course offers this extensive amount of content delivered in a variety of ways to address different student learning styles.

  • Students first listen to audio lectures that accompany the PowerPoints.

  • Then they watch a video of an accounting faculty member explaining the key points of the topic.

  • Next they watch a brief On Location! Video to see how the concepts presented are relevant to issues real companies are wrestling with today.

  • Finally students review the “Helpful Hints” for a summary of the content covered in each chapter.

• Student CD-ROM—Packaged free with special versions (new copies only) of any Horngren text. CD contains: PH Re-Enforcer Tutorial Software, General Ledger Software, PowerPoints, On Location! Videos, Spreadsheet Templates, and Excel Tutorial.

• “Getting Started” Series of manuals on Peachtree Complete 6.0, QuickBooks Pro 2001, and Simply Accounting 8.0—Package your choice of one of these brief manuals free the NEW copies of the student text. In addition, you can package your choice of the full software for Peachtree Complete Release 8.0 (a $200.00 value) or Simply Accounting 8.0 (A $150.00 value) for only $10.00 net with new copies of the student text.

• “Mastering Accounting” CD-ROM—Students watch professionally written, acted, and filmed videos about a fictional Internet start-up company to see how accounting concepts are related to workplace events and challenges. They then complete a variety of interactive exercises. The topics covered are all linked to the core concepts in the first-year accounting sequence. Can be packaged with the textbook for a nominal price.

  • An excellent tool for cross-functional learning and to help students see the relevance of accounting in their future.

1. Accounting and the Business Environment.

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