Accounting Demystified provides you with a working knowledge of accounting basics, covering financial, cost, budget, and tax accounting. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.

作者简介：Leita Hart
　　Leita Hart, CPA (Austin, TX) is a certified government financial manager and author of more than 20 courses on accounting, auditing, business writing, and balanced scorecard management.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE THE BIG PICTURE
CHAPTER 1 Where Did All This Lingo Come From?
The Birth of the Accountant Gaps in GAAP?
One Huge Database
The Three Key Financial Statements Are Just Summaries
Liquidity, Profitability, Growth and Financir Quiz
CHAPTER 2 The Batance Sheet--The Mother of At[
Financial Statements
Assets, Liabilities, and Equity: Another Way to Look at Them
Two Mistakes in Reasoning
Now, How Do We Use the Balance Sheet to Make Decisions?
A Quickie Analysis
Quiz
CHAPTER 3 The Income Statement--A Focus
on Earnings
Memorize This Formula!
Cost Terminology
The Significance of Gross Profit Margin and Operating Profit Margin
The Income Statement Tells a Story about Profitability
Quiz
CHAPTER 4 The Cash Flow Statement--Do We Have Enough for Payroll?
Cash versus Accrual Method of Accounting
A Real-Life Example of How Cash and Profit Differ
Why Was the Cash Flow Statement Added Recently?
Classifying Cash Flows into Three Categories
What Stories Does the Cash Flow Statement Tell You?
Quiz
CHAPTER 5 How the Financial Statements Are Related
How the Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Balance Sheet Are Related
What Each Financial Statement Tracks
Simple Transactions and How They Impact the Three Key Financial Statements
Cash Sale
Credit Sale: Part One
Credit Sale: Part Two
Purchasing a Fixed Asset
Quiz
TEST Part One
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PART TWO AN OVERVIEW OF COMMON ACCOUNTING REPORTS
TEST PART TWO
PART THREE DEBITS AND CREDITS DETAIL RULES,RULES ,RULES
TEST PART THREE
PART 4 FINANCIAL INDICATORS_USING FINANCIAL INFORMATION TO MAKE DECISIONS
TEST PART FOUR
FINAL EXAM
ANSWERS TO QUIZ,TEST,AND EXAM QUESTIONS
INDEX