Financial Accounting Plus NEW MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 10th Edition

• MyAccountingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and exams—resulting in better performance in the course—and provides educators with a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class progress.

• Worked Out Solutions provide step-by-step explanations of specific problems using the exact numbers and data that were presented, helping students understand how to arrive at the correct answers themselves.
• A Simulated Excel Environment enables students to learn and practice accounting while gaining hands-on experience with the software they’ll use in their future careers.
• An Adaptive Learning Study Plan for each student continuously assesses performance in real time, and personalizes content to reinforce concepts that target the student’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Dynamic Study Modules offer personalized guidance and on-point practice, enabling students to learn faster and retain information longer.
• Real World Accounting Videos demonstrate course material in action, and show how accounting will apply to students’ future careers.
  

• One place for all of your courses. Improved registration experience and a single point of access for instructors and students who are teaching and learning multiple MyLab/Mastering courses.
• A simplified user interface. The new user interface offers quick and easy access to Assignments, Study Plan, eText & Results, as well as additional option for course customization.
• Communication tools can be used to foster collaboration, class participation, and group work.

• Email: Instructors can send emails to their entire class, to individual students or to instructors who has access to their course.
• Discussion Board: The discussion board provides students with a space to respond and react to the discussions you create. These posts can also be separated out into specific topics where students can share their opinions/answers and respond to their fellow classmates’ posts.
• Chat/ ClassLive: ClassLive is an interactive chat tool that allows instructors and students to communicate in real time. ClassLive can be used with a group of students or one-on-one to share images or PowerPoint presentations, draw or write objects on a whiteboard, or send and received graphed or plotted equations. ClassLive also has additional classroom management tools, including polling and hand raising.
• Enhanced eText. Available within the online course materials and offline via an iPad app, the enhanced eText allows instructors and students to highlight, bookmark, take notes, and share with one another.

• EXCEL^® in MyAccountingLab include:

• Students can get real-world Excel practice in their classes.
• Instructors have the option to assign students End-of-Chapter questions that can be completed in an Excel-simulated environment. 
• Questions will be auto-graded, reported to, and visible in the grade book. 
• Excel remediation will be available to students.

• End-of-chapter material integrated with MyAccountingLab. Students need practice and repetition in order to be successful in learning the fundamentals of financial accounting. This text now contains an additional set of exercises for professors to choose from. Also available in MyAccountingLab are three static alternatives for all exercises and problems, as well as algorithmic versions, providing students with unlimited practice. In addition, IFRS coverage has been added so students can see how IFRS will impact decisions in accounting.

• End-of-chapter materials include: Quick Check multiple-choice review questions, short exercises, A and B exercises and problems, serial and challenge exercises, multiple choice quiz questions, decision cases, ethical cases, Focus on Financials (with real financial statement analysis), Focus on Analysis (with real financial statement analysis), and group projects.

• Core concepts and mechanics are brought together using consistent language, format, and formulas.
• Students also receive thorough explanations and details that show the meaning behind each concept and how to do the computation following it. So whether it’s the first transaction or the last, students perform the analysis in the same way, reinforcing their understanding, reducing the level of confusion and frustration, and helping them capture those “I get it!” moments.

• Chapter 1 introduces the accounting cycle with a brief financial statement overview, using the financial statements of J.Crew Group, Inc. This first exposure to accounting explores financial statements in depth, familiarizes students with using real business data, and points out basic relationships between the different types of statements.
• Chapter 2 continues the discussion of the accounting cycle by explaining how to analyze and record basic transactions, and builds in repetition to ensure that students understand the fundamentals when they prepare the trial balance. 
• Chapter 3 concludes the discussion of the accounting cycle with adjusting and closing entries, and preparation of the related trial balances to close the loop for students.
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) coverage makes students aware of important issues. In order to increase student awareness of the most important potential shift in the future of financial accounting, information on IFRS is introduced in Chapter 1, can be found where appropriate throughout the chapters in the new Global View feature, and in a new appendix. When students practice or complete their homework in MyAccountingLab, they will also be exposed to IFRS. Any time that IFRS could influence a decision, it’s highlighted and explained within MyAccountingLab.
• Enhanced coverage of cash flows lets students understand how money is viewed. The current economy has created a shift in how we view money—specifically, cash. Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business so the coverage of Cash Flows in this edition has been increased and highlighted in Chapters 4-10, where students can easily see the connections and understand the significance.
• Fraud coverage is highlighted throughout the text. In an age of public scandals, understanding fraud is a key component of Financial Accounting. Chapter 4 includes the concept of fraud, and introduces students to the “fraud triangle” (motivation, opportunity, and rationalization) and a discussion of internal controls as the primary way companies prevent fraud. 
• Ethics issues are stressed throughout the text. Sound ethical judgment is important for every major financial decision—which is why this text provides consistent ethical reinforcement in every chapter. 
• Coverage on time value of money is incorporated into Chapter 8: Long-Term Investments, highlighting its importance in measuring fair value of certain long-term assets and liabilities.

• A Mid-Chapter Summary Problem provides a stopping point for students—it gives them an opportunity to repeat the entire process again, using data from a different company, to make sure they’ve “got it.”
  
• End-of-Chapter Summary Problem closes out the chapter and allows the student to practice the process again and really “nail” these fundamental skills.
• End-of-Chapter problems, exercises, and Focus on Financials analysis questions allow students to the review the text.
• User-Oriented Approach focuses students’ attention on the meaning and relevance of information in the financial statements by adding new ratios to assist in evaluating liquidity, turnover, and profitability.
• Focus on Analysis company, RadioShack Corporation. The author team collaborated with company executives to help develop relevant analytical problems using RadioShack’s financial information.
• Challenge Problems have been added to every chapter, helping students develop higher-order critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Decision Guidelines present day-to-day business decisions and can be used as a summary in the end-of-chapter material where they highlight key terms, information, and formulas. The Decision Guidelines can also be used as a basis for students’ future business decisions.
• Demo Docs in the accounting cycle chapters offer fully worked-through problems that weave computation and concepts together in a step-by-step format, helping students understand the “how” and “why”. Additional Demo Docs, including animated versions, are available in the study guide and in MyAccountingLab.