Financial & Managerial Accounting

ISBN-10: 1119752523
ISBN-13: 9781119752523
Series: Financial & Managerial Accounting
Language: English
Published: 2020-12
Author: Jerry J Weygandt

Description

"What consistently ranks as one of the top career opportunities in business? What frequently rates among the most popular majors on campus? What was the undergraduate degree chosen by Nike founder Phil Knight, Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank, former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Thomas Pickard, and numerous members of Congress? Accounting.1 Why did these people choose accounting? They wanted to understand what was happening financially to their organizations. Accounting is the financial information system that provides these insights. In short, to understand your organization, you have to know the numbers. Accounting consists of three basic activities-it identifies, records, and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested users. Let's take a closer look at these three activities"--