Cornerstones of Financial and Managerial Accounting - Hardcover

Get your students where they need to be with CORNERSTONES OF FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING. Cornerstones is the only text that delivers a truly unique learning system that is integrated through the entire introductory managerial accounting journey--ensuring they will leave the course with the needed elements to be future business leaders. Students are guided through: Building A Strong Foundation: Students learn the basic accounting concepts through clear and consistently-formatted Cornerstones Examples and Exercises. Understanding Relationships: Students see the relationships between the numbers & concepts and how variables impact each other. Seeing Real-World Connections: Student understanding is brought full circle as they see how these concepts are applied in real world situations. Making Decisions: Students practice actually making decisions based on the information they have now gathered and analyzed. Students love this approach because it presents materials the way they learn and professors love it because it gets students to master the foundations more quickly and allows more time to learn and apply the analysis and decision making of accounting. Get There with Cornerstones!

Jay Rich is a Professor of Accounting at Illinois State University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program, he worked as an auditor at Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago and earned his C.P.A. in 1985. He has published articles in The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Accounting Organizations and Society, and others. He has also served on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Current Issues in Auditing. Dr. Rich has received both the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Notable Contribution to the Literature Award from the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association as well as the Outstanding Educator Award from the Illinois CPA Society. His primary teaching interest is financial accounting and he has taught numerous courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. His outside interests include his family, travel, reading, and watching sports, but he spends most of his free time driving his children to various activities. He also repeatedly develops plans to exercise and diet at some point in the future. By all accounts, he is a master at grilling meat, a mediocre skier, and a shameful golfer.