College Accounting, Chapters 1-16 » (18th Edition)

Jim Heintz currently guides today's students as Professor and Director of Accounting and Information Systems in the School of Business at the University of Kansas, where he has taught for nine years. Prior to joining University of Kansas, he was the Accounting Department Head at the University of Connecticut for eight years. He also served as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor for 20 years at Indiana University. Professor Heintz earned his doctorate from Washington University in St Louis and is a CPA. Professor Heintz was a Price Waterhouse Faculty Fellow at Indiana, an Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at Connecticut, and is currently the Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow at Kansas. Professor Heintz has won numerous school and university teaching awards, including 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 as president of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group of the AAA. He has participated in external reviews of accounting programs at nine major universities and is currently a member of the Accounting Accreditation Committee of the AACSB.

Rob Parry clarifies accounting concepts forstudents daily as Professor of Accounting at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington Indiana. He has taught at Indiana University 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. An accomplished teacher, 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 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 recognized twice 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. He received the Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award for designing and implements the curriculum for the Master of Professional Accountancy Program.

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Part 1 ACCOUNTING FOR A SERVICE BUSINESS.
1.Introduction to Accounting.
2.Analyzing Transactions: The Accounting Equation.
3.The Double-Entry Framework.
4.Journalizing and Posting Transactions.
5.Adjusting Entries and the Worksheet.
Appendix: Depreciation Methods.
6.Financial Statements and the Closing Process.
Appendix: Statement of Cash Flows.
Part 2 ACCOUNTING FOR CASH, PAYROLL, AND SERVICE BUSINESSES.
7.Accounting for Cash.
Appendix: Internal Controls.
8.Payroll Accounting: Employee Earnings and Deductions.
9.Payroll Accounting: Employer Taxes and Reports.
Part 3 ACCOUNTING FOR A MERCHANDISING BUSINESS.
10.Accounting for Sales and Cash Receipts.
11.Accounting for Purchases and Cash Payments.
Appendix: The Net-Price Method of Recording Purchases.
12.Special Journals.
13.Accounting for Merchandise Inventory.
Appendix: Perpetual Inventory Method: LIFO and Moving-Average Methods.
14.Adjustments and the Worksheet for a Merchandising Business.
Appendix: Expense Method of Accounting for Prepaid Expenses.
15.Financial Statements and Year-End Accounting for a Merchandising Business.