Accounting: information for decision making -- Basic financial statements -- The accounting cycle: capturing economic events -- The accounting cycle: accruals and deferrals -- The accounting cycle: reporting financial results -- Merchandising activities -- Financial assets -- Inventories and the cost of goods sold -- Plant and intangible assets -- Liabilities -- Stockholders' equity: paid-in capital -- Income and changes n retained earnings -- Statement of cash flows -- Financial statement analysis -- Global business and accounting -- Management accounting: a business partner -- Job order cost systems and overhead allocations -- Process costing -- Costing and the value chain -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Incremental analysis -- Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing -- Operational budgeting -- Standard cost systems -- Rewarding business performance -- Capital budgeting.