College Accounting, Chapters 1-29

Book Description
This text presents concepts simply while ensuring the best, most accurate coverage. College Accounting is designed to make accounting understandable to virtually everyone without sacrificing substance and technical correctness. A step-by-step, straightforward approach helps readers build practical accounting skills that are needed when entering the world of work. The text presents simple topics first and gradually builds to more advanced topics, so learners are not overwhelmed. The narrative approach covers a simpler example of a service business before moving to a merchandising business, and finally, a manufacturing environment.

About the Author
Jim Heintz is in his third year as Professor and Director of the Accounting and Information Systems Division in the School of Business at the University of Kansas. He previously was Accounting Department Head at the University of Connecticut for eight years, and an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor during 20 years at Indiana University. His doctorate is from Washington University in St Louis and he is a CPA (Illinois). Professor Heintz was a Price Waterhouse Faculty Fellow at Indiana and an Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at Connecticut, and is currently the Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow at Kansas. While at Indiana, he won 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 currently is president of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group of the AAA. He has participated in external reviews of accounting programs at five major universities and is currently a member of the Accounting Accreditation Committee of the AACSB.


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This textbook introduces the procedures used to record the transactions made by service businesses, merchandising businesses, corporations, and manufacturing businesses. Payroll accounting, sales and purchases, inventory, depreciation, and financial statements are covered. The 18th edition offers an alternate, two-chapter booklet on special journals, and updates accounting for corporate organization costs and stock subscriptions. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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