This intermediate accounting text links accounting principles to the central activities of a business. A user/decision making approach, combined with the necessary coverage of GAAP, prepares the student to understand accounting in terms of a business' activities, which reflects the broadening definition of accounting today. The text's efficient format does not overwhelm students, and its accessible style provides a nice alternative to more encyclopedic, reference-book approaches. The book offers a nice blend of the core concepts of accounting principles, with procedural applications. This approach is supplemented with the most expansive set of end-of-chapter material on the market, thorough integration of today's hot topics (it's the only intermediate text that has an entire chapter on Earnings Management), as well as a robust selection of student and instructor print and technology resources.

James D. Stice

James D. Stice is the Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

Earl K. Stice

Earl K. Stice is the PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting in the School of Accountancy and Information Systems at Brigham Young University where he has been on the faculty since 1998.

Fred Skousen

K. Fred Skousen holds the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Chair of Management and is Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.