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Warren Buffett said that "accounting is the language of business.'' And for many accounting and business students, the obscure terminology of finance makes fluency hard to achieve. Financial Accounting For Dummies can help to demystify abstract concepts in a straightforward, friendly way. With step-by-step examples and real-world scenarios practice, it helps you grasp the fundamentals of finance until you're ready to interpret, analyze, and evaluate corporate financial statements like you've been doing it all your life. Packed with easy-to-understand examples, this book takes you from the big three financial statements all the way through to income taxes. Or join the anti-fraud squad by discovering how to spot the ten most common accounting shenanigans.
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Maire Loughran is a certified public accountant with fifteen years experience assisting new business owners and owns an arts and crafts business. She has lectured extensively on the subject of how to start a new business covering such topics as selection of business entity, business licenses and sales tax collection, bookkeeping and how to write a business plan. In addition to being the Arts and Crafts Business Guide at About.com, she is a university professor teaching graduate and undergraduate accounting, auditing and taxation classes.
