Accounting For Dummies, 6th Edition

About the Author

John A. Tracy (Boulder, Colorado) is Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Before his 35-year tenure at Boulder, he was on the business faculty for four years at the University of California at Berkeley. Early in his career, he was a staff accountant with Ernst & Young. John is the author of several books on accounting and finance, including The Fast Forward MBA in Finance and Accounting Workbook For Dummies. His son, Tage C. Tracy, joined him as coauthor on How to Read a Financial Report, now in its 8th edition. John and Tage have also coauthored Cash Flow For Dummies and Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies. John received his BSC degree from Creighton University. He earned his MBA and PhD degrees at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is a CPA (inactive status) in Colorado.

Dedication

For our twelve grandchildren — Alexander, Ryan, Mitchel, Paige, Katrina, Claire, Eric, MacKenzie, Madison, Tanner, Karsen, and Brody.

Author’s Acknowledgments

I’m deeply grateful to everyone at Wiley, who for over 20 years have helped produce the six editions of this book. Their professionalism, courtesy, and good humor are much appreciated. It has been a pleasure working with them. My problem here is that there are too many to thank individually. So, I mention only the first person that contacted me about doing this book. The others know how deeply grateful I am for their invaluable help in making the book so successful. ...