Content Changes by Chapter
Chapter 1: Introduction to Financial Statements
- New Feature Story, on Clif Bar and its ESOP and open-book management program.
- New discussion of LLCs and S corporations, to reflect more current business practices.
- New People, Planet, and Profit Insight, on evaluating companies on social practices as well as on financial results.
- New Research Case on possible expanding role of auditors.
Chapter 2: A Further Look at Financial Statements
- Updated to reflect new conceptual framework terminology.
Chapter 3: The Accounting Information System
- Heavily revised Feature Story, now on MF Global's failure to segregate company accounts from customer accounts.
- New Ethics Insight, on Credit Suisse Group's failure to properly write down value of its securities.
- New Research Case based on Green Bay Packers' annual report publication.
Chapter 4: Accrual Accounting Concepts
- New Feature Story, on Groupon and complexity of accounting for its revenues.
- New People, Planet, and Profit Insight, on costs of disposing discarded, possibly toxic, materials.
Chapter 5: Merchandising Operations and the Multiple-Step Income Statement
- New Feature Story, on REI and its unique business model.
- New use of recent REI and Dick's Sporting Goods financial statement information.
- Revised Ethics Insight box on improving company clarity of financial disclosures by citing recent eBay's sale of Skype.
- New People, Planet, and Profit Insight, about whether PepsiCo should market green.