TY - BOOK AU - Needles,Belverd E. AU - Anderson,Henry R. AU - Caldwell,James C. TI - Principles of accounting SN - 0395295270 AV - HF 5635 .N28 PY - 1981/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Accounting N1 - Includes index; Uses of accounting information and the financial statements -- Measuring business transactions -- Measuring business income -- Completing the accounting cycle -- Merchandising operations -- Financial reporting and analysis -- How to read an annual report -- Accounting information systems -- Internal control -- Short-term financial assets -- Inventories -- Long-term assets -- Current liabilities -- Partnerships -- Contributed capital -- The corporate income statement and the statement of stockholders' equity -- Long-term liabilities --The statement of cash flows -- Financial performance evaluation -- The changing business environment : a manager's perspective -- Cost concepts and cost allocation -- Costing systems : job order and process costing -- Activity-based systems : ABM and JIT -- Cost behavior analyses -- The budgeting process -- Standard costing and variance analysis -- Performance management and evaluation -- Analysis for decision making -- Appendix A. International accounting -- Appendix B. Long-term investments -- Appendix C. The time value of money -- Appendix D. Future value and present value tables ER -