This widely respected financial accounting text captures the predominant market share among graduate, MBA, and higher-level undergraduate programs. With great clarity, it presents both the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the terminology and methods that allow students to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements.

Clyde P. Stickney was the Signal Companies' Professor of Management at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University and served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the faculty of the Tuck School in 1977. He has also taught at the International University of Japan, Swinburne Institute of Technology, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Stickney's teaching and research interests center around the interpretation and analysis of financial statements. Recent research has examined the impact of different accounting principles on U.S. versus Japanese price-earnings ratios and the use of financial statement ratios to infer the content and to evaluate the success of corporate-level strategies. He has authored and coauthored books on financial accounting, managerial accounting, and financial statement analysis. Professor Stickney is a member of the American Accounting Association.

Roman L. Weil, Ph.D., CMA, CPA, is the V. Duane Rath Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Dr. Weil received his Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has served on the accrediting committee of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. He has also designed and implemented continuing education programs for partners at the accounting firms of Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse as well as for employees at Montgomery Wards. Dr. Weil has co-authored dozens of books. His articles have appeared in Barron's and The Wall Street Journal. He has published more than 80 articles in academic and professional journals. Dr. Weil is a member of the American Accounting Association, The American Economics Association, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Replacement Cost Accounting and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.