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Accounting with a Canadian focus Money makes the world go round.
Accounting For Canadians For Dummies helps you conquer the basics of accounting with a focus on Canada-specific rules and regulations. Work out the essentials of bookkeeping, forecasting, and financial management in the digital age. You'll learn to identify business structures and accounting methods, prepare financial reports, and untangle financial statements to get to the bottom line (literally). With a dash of Dummies humour and a pinch of Canadian charm, this guide has your back.
Inside... - Key accounting terms defined
- Current accounting standards
- Reporting assets, liabilities, equity, revenues, and expenses
- Reading financial statements
- Analyzing financial ratios
- Financial reporting tricks
- Accounting for managers
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
Part 1: Opening the Books on Accounting 5 Chapter 1: Accounting in Today's Economy 7
Chapter 2: Introducing Financial Statements 25
Chapter 3: Bookkeeping and Accounting Systems 49
Chapter 4: Accounting in the Digital Age 71
Chapter 5: Deciding the Legal Structure for a Business 85
Part 2: Exploring Financial Statements 101 Chapter 6: Reporting Profit or Loss in the Income Statement 103
Chapter 7: Reporting Financial Condition on the Balance Sheet 125
Chapter 8: Reporting Cash Flows 149
Chapter 9: Choosing Accounting Methods 167
Part 3: Understanding Financial Reports, Financial Statements, and Financial Information 189 Chapter 10: Producing Financial Reports 191
Chapter 11: Deciphering a Financial Report 213
Chapter 12: Analyzing Financial Information with Ratios 227
Chapter 13: Generating Internal Financial Information for Management Use 249
Chapter 14: Applying Tricks and Treats to Engineer Financial Results 271
Part 4: Leveraging Accounting in Managing a Business 281 Chapter 15: Analyzing Profit 283
Chapter 16: Accounting for Costs 305
Chapter 17: Preparing Forecasts, Projections, and Budgets 329
Part 5: The Part of Tens 349 Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Managers 351
Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Reading a Financial Report 361
Index 371
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Cécile Laurin, CPA, CA, is a retired professor of accounting at Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ottawa. She has been chief financial officer for three engineering firms and a law firm.
Tage C. Tracy operates a financial consulting firm focused on offering CFO/executive-level support and planning services to private companies. He is the author of
Business Financial Information Secrets and has coauthored several
For Dummies books.
