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College Accounting: A Practical Approach, Canadian Edition, 15th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (March 22, 2023) © 2024

  • Jeffrey Slater North Shore Community College
  • Mike Deschamps MiraCosta College
  • Debra Good Conestoga College

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For courses in accounting and bookkeeping.

Learn the fundamental accounting principles

College Accounting: A Practical Approach provides readers with a strong foundation in the basics of accounting. Organized in a clear, easy-to-follow format, the text contains a plethora of learning tools and practice opportunities to help students immediately put their skills to use.

Hallmark features of this title

  • The text focuses on building basic skills and background knowledge so students understand how to apply the concepts.
  • Scenarios and examples use real-world practices to illustrate accounting in action.
  • Coach students with career-ready technological basics and in-chapter learning tools
    • Coaching Tips provide short, to-the-point kernels of advice, when students need a hint or reminder.

New and Updated Features

  • As the world shifts to a greater reliance on digital media, it is appropriate that this resource evolves as well. This Fifteenth Canadian Edition is the first fully digital version of College Accounting. Instructors and students will find that, although the medium has changed, the content is fully consistent with prior editions.
  • Current Accounting and Payroll Standards. The fifteenth Canadian edition of College Accounting reflects the most current Canadian accounting standards and uses the Canada Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan, employment insurance, and federal and provincial tax rates and legislation in effect on January 1, 2022.

Important Digital Assets in MyLab Accounting

  • Accounting Cycle Tutorial. This interactive tutorial in MyLab Accounting helps students master the Accounting Cycle for early and continued success in financial accounting courses. The tutorial provides students with brief explanations of each concept of the Accounting Cycle through engaging, interactive activities. Students are immediately assessed on their understanding, and their performance is recorded in the MyLab Accounting gradebook. Whether the Accounting Cycle Tutorial is used as a remediation self-study tool or course assignment, students have yet another resource within MyLab Accounting to help them be successful with the accounting cycle.
  • ACT Comprehensive Problem. The Accounting Cycle Tutorial now includes a comprehensive problem that allows students to work with the same set of transactions throughout the accounting cycle. The comprehensive problem, which can be assigned at the beginning or the end of the full cycle, reinforces the lessons learned in the Accounting Cycle Tutorial activities by emphasizing the connections between the accounting cycle concepts.
  • Dynamic Study Modules. Using a highly personalized, algorithmically driven process, Dynamic Study Modules continuously assess student performance and provide additional practice in the areas where they struggle the most. Each Dynamic Study Module, accessed by computer, smartphone, or tablet, promotes fast learning and long-term retention.
  • Learning Catalytics. Learning Catalytics allows students to use any web-enabled device to participate in-class. Instructors can access a library of prebuilt questions or construct questions on their own to keep students engaged in the lecture. Learning Catalytics can be assigned to students synchronously or asynchronously and used for individual or group work. It can also place students in discussion groups based on their responses and location, regardless of class size. 
  • Animations. Animations in the MyLab Accounting show how a worksheet is created, replacing the acetates that appeared in Chapter 4 in previous editions of the textbook. 
  • Worksheets. Available in MyLab Accounting's Multimedia Library and Chapter Resources sections, students can download these worksheet files and fill them in with Excel or print them and fill them in by hand. 
  1. Accounting Concepts and Procedures An Introduction
  2. Debits and Credits Analyzing and Recording Business Transactions
  3. Beginning the Accounting Cycle Journalizing, Posting, and the Trial Balance
  4. The Accounting Cycle Continued Preparing Worksheets and Financial Statements
  5. The Accounting Cycle Completed Closing and Post-Closing Trial Balance
  6. Special Journals and Subsidiary Ledgers Sales and Cash Receipts Journal
  7. Special Journals and Subsidiary Ledgers Purchases and Cash Payments Journal
  8. Completion of the Accounting Cycle for a Merchandising Company
  9. Banking Procedures and Control of Cash
  10. Payroll Procedures The Employee's Perspective
  11. The Employer's Payroll Responsibilities
  12. Accounting for Bad Debts
  13. Special Journals with Taxes

About our authors

Jeff Slater has taught at North Shore Community College for 48 years. He has published 12 different texts selling over 2 million copies. Jeff has also worked as a consultant for the federal government. Jeff's teaching philosophy is to keep it simple. Over the years he has been known for his innovative ideas. Jeff received the Nisod Excellence Award for his teaching. He resides in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife Shelley and their 2 golden doodles Bernie and Fejjie. Jeff loves what he does and understands that students are his customers that need to be served in a professional manner. Jeff is available at jeffslater@aol.com and promises to get back to any student queries within 24 hours or less.

Mike Deschamps received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, graduating from the University of San Diego, where he served as the chapter president for Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting honor society. Mike transferred to USD after completing several years at San Diego City Community College, where he really found his di-rection as a student, which was a significant factor in his desire to become a community college instructor.

After working in public accounting and obtaining his CPA license, Mike returned to San Diego State University, where he earned a master's degree in Accounting and a Certificate in Financial Planning. In addition, he earned his Enrolled Agent certification in 2004. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Online Teaching and Learning in the School of Education at California State University, East Bay. He believes that the delivery of meaningful accounting instruction for students must keep up with the changing technology environment in which accounting operates.

He is currently in his 14th year at MiraCosta Community College and previously was a tenured professor of accounting and financial services at Chaffey Community College, where he also served as the program coordinator for 6 years. He is an active member of Teachers of Accounting at Two-Year Colleges (TACTYC) and has presented at the National Convention a number of times. He is a member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers and was instrumental in redesigning the bookkeeping curriculum at MiraCosta to better reflect the skills needed in today's bookkeeping environment. Having a curriculum that not only prepares students for the workplace but also assists them in preparing for a professional bookkeeping certification exam, such as the AIPB's Certified Bookkeeper Designation, was a key goal of that effort.

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