Accounting Principles, 9th Canadian Edition

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Accounting Principles, 9th Canadian Edition

By Jerry Weygandt, Donald Kieso, Paul Kimmel, Barbara Trenholm, Valerie Warren, and Lori Novak

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Accounting Principles, 9th Canadian Edition empowers students to succeed by providing a clear overview of fundamental financial and managerial accounting concepts with a focus on learning the accounting cycle from the sole proprietor perspective.

WileyPLUS for Accounting Principles provides interactive learning through WileyPLUS Adaptive Assignments and various high-quality assessment that feature real-world scenarios, allowing students to bridge the gap from education to business application. To further ensure students’ retention of foundational course material, students also have access to interactive tools that present bite-sized learning and video-based instruction with 24/7, just-in-time homework help. Throughout WileyPLUS, there are also a variety of hands-on activities that help students learn how to solve business problems, including running cases with real-world application, Excel assignments, and various data analytics activities like Tableau and Power BI Visualization Assignments and Analytics in Action Problems. With Accounting Principles, your students will stay on track and be better prepared to connect the classroom to the real world.

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Learn Accounting Concepts Efficiently

Solution Walkthrough Videos provide 24/7, just-in-time homework assistance for hundreds of exercises and problems in the WileyPLUS course. Thes videos break down the process of completing complex homework questions to help students build their understanding of tackling and working through an entire accounting problem, improving their understanding and increasing their confidence.

Adaptive Assignments ignite students’ confidence to persist so they can develop critical skills. By continuously adapting to each students’ needs and providing achievable goals with just-in-time instruction, Adaptive Assignments close knowledge gaps through scaffolded learning. Powered and refined by the Knewton Adaptive Engine, with more than 15 million users, this new assignment type gives instructors the flexibility and control to create targeted adaptive experiences that match their teaching preferences. With actionable analytics to support student and class intervention, Adaptive Assignments makes teaching and learning more efficient than ever.

Develop Data Analytics and Literacy Skills

Help students develop foundational data analytics software skills with Data Analysis Technology Bootcamps, available for Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and SQL. Each bootcamp includes Overview Videos, How-To Videos, and Solution Walkthrough Videos to ensure students have the support they need to learn how to use the software and perform specific tasks, as well as assignable application exercises and data sets to help students demonstrate their understanding of the tool in an accounting context.

Power BI and Tableau Visualization Assignments in WileyPLUS familiarize students with popular data analysis tools they will encounter in the workplace. Students analyze a variety of visualizations available in both software programs, completing assessment questions along the way to check their understanding and ability to interpret different forms of information, and practice making informed business decisions.

The WileyPLUS Data Set Library provides instructors with the flexibility to choose how they want to build and assess students’ data analytics skills. A variety of free data sets are available for you to access across all WileyPLUS Accounting courses, saving you valuable time in sourcing out data sets to use with projects, assessments, and homework.

Solve Business Problems with Excel

Gradable Excel Assignments develop the Excel knowledge and skills students need by giving them the opportunity to practice using formulas and functions to complete specific exercises in a real Microsoft Excel worksheet. With exercises based on accounting questions from the book, automatic grading, and immediate and detailed cell-level feedback, students build key skills needed to be competitive in today’s job market while enhancing their understanding of key accounting concepts.

Incorporate Cutting-Edge Topics

Introduce your students to ESG in the accounting context with the WileyPLUS ESG Module, designed to help students understand what ESG is, why it’s important, and how it’s changing the modern accounting and business world. Students work through each pillar of ESG through lessons on Environment, Social, Governance, and Reporting, along with relatable business scenarios with recognizable companies, access to real-world sample reports, and assignable quiz questions.

What’s New to the 9th Canadian Edition

  • New WileyPLUS Adaptive Assignments effectively close knowledge gaps through a personalized adaptive experience that provides just-in-time instruction, immediate feedback, and remediation to previous learning objectives. With 3 assignment types to choose from (Pre-Lecture, Practice, Review), instructors can leverage Adaptive Assignments in various ways to build their students’ confidence and mastery of course concepts.
  • New Gradable Excel assignments available in WileyPLUS helps develop the Excel knowledge and skills students need to successfully compete in today’s job market, while enhancing their understanding of key accounting concepts.
  • New Analytics in Action End-of-Chapter Problems get students hands-on with data analysis applications within a real Excel environment and practice working with varied data sets, refine their Excel efficiency skills, create visualizations, and learn how to think critically while evaluating and interpreting the data.
Content Changes:
  • New emphasis on sustainability has been included throughout the course, including relevant cases and research assignments. Sustainability is growing in importance as accountants are increasingly being called on to collect data and prepare reports on sustainability, as well as providing assurance on such information, which is becoming more important to an increasing number of stakeholders.
  • Updated Accounting in Action insight boxes give the student glimpses into how companies make decisions. These high interest boxes are classified by five different points of view—Across the Organization, Business Insight, Ethics, People, Planet, and Profit Insight, and All About You.
  • New Beginning Feature Stories include recognizable companies and their approach to the topic of the chapter.
  • New Data Analytics Insight boxes highlight the use of data analytics by real-world companies.
  • Refreshed End-of-Chapter Material are keyed to learning objectives, updated chapter content, and Bloom’s Taxonomy. This material guides students through the basic levels of cognitive understanding—knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation—in a step-by-step process.

Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Weygandt have appeared in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, convertible securities, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Weygandt is the author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting review. Weygandt also served as president and secretary-treasurer of the American Accounting Association. In addition, he has been actively involved with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has been a member of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC). He has served on the Financial Accounting Standards Board task force that examined the reporting issues related to accounting for income taxes and served as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. Weygandt has received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Beta Gamma Sigma Dean’s Teaching Award. He is the recipient of the Wisconsin Institute of CPA’s Outstanding Educator’s Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he received the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Educator Award.

Donald E. Kieso

Donald E. Kieso, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor’s degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. He has served as chairman of the Department of Accountancy and is currently the KPMG Emeritus Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. He has public accounting experience with Price Waterhouse & Co. (San Francisco and Chicago) and Arthur Andersen & Co. (Chicago) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He has done post doctorate work as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and is a recipient of NIU’s Teaching Excellence Award and four Golden Apple Teaching Awards. Professor Kieso is the author of other accounting and business books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Illinois CPA Society. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the AACSB’s Accounting Accreditation Committees, the State of Illinois Comptroller’s Commission, and he has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy and as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. Professor Kieso is currently serving on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Aurora University, as a member of the Board of Directors of Kishwaukee Community Hospital, and as Treasurer and Director of Valley West Community Hospital. From 1989 to 1993, he served as a charter member of the national Accounting Education Change Commission. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the Illinois CPA Society, the FSA’s Joseph A. Silvoso Award of Merit, the NIU Foundation’s Humanitarian Award for Service to Higher Education, a Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois CPA Society, and in 2003, an honorary doctorate from Aurora University.

Paul D. Kimmel

Paul D. Kimmel, PhD, CPA, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Wisconsin. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and has public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche (Minneapolis). He was the recipient of the UWM School of Business Advisory Council Teaching Award, the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award, and a three-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award for Honorary Distinction for his results on the CPA exam. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants and has published articles in Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Advances in Management Accounting, Managerial Finance, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, and in other journals. His research interests include accounting for financial instruments and innovation in accounting education. He has published papers and given numerous talks on incorporating critical thinking into accounting education and helped prepare a catalog of critical thinking resources for the Federated Schools of Accountancy.

Barbara Trenholm

Barbara Trenholm, FCPA, FCA, ICD.D, is a professor emerita at the University of New Brunswick. Her teaching and educational leadership has been widely recognized with numerous local, national, and international teaching awards. She also served a three-year term as a Teaching Scholar at the University of New Brunswick. Professor Trenholm is a member of the boards of several public, Crown, and private corporations, including Plazacorp Retail REIT, NB Power, and the International Development Research Centre. She is a past board member of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (now known as CPA Canada), and the Atlantic School of Chartered Accountancy (now known as CPA Atlantic School of Business), and past president of the New Brunswick Institute of Chartered Accountants (now known as CPA New Brunswick). She has extensive service as chair and a member of a wide range of committees at the provincial, national, and international levels of the accounting profession. In addition to her involvement with her profession, she has also served in leadership roles at the university and in the community. She has presented at many conferences and published widely in the field of accounting education and standard setting in journals including Accounting Horizons, Journal of the Academy of Business Education, CAmagazine, CGA Magazine, and CMA Magazine. She is also part of the Canadian author team of Kimmel, Weygandt, Kieso, Trenholm, and Irvine, Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision-Making, published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

Valerie Warren

Valerie Warren, M.B.A., CPA, CA, is an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. She has a wide range of teaching experience in financial accounting and auditing. She is the past academic chair of the accounting program at Kwantlen. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association. She also serves as a practice review officer for CPABC (Chartered Professional Accountants British Columbia), where she conducts practice reviews of national, regional, and local firms for compliance with current accounting and assurance standards. She is also the Canadian author of Moroney, Campbell, Hamilton, and Warren’s Auditing: A Practical Approach, published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

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Lori E . Novak

Lori E . Novak, M.B.A., CPA, CGA, is an instructor at University of Winnipeg in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her teaching experience includes course development and delivery in financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, and general business courses. Ms. Novak has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master of Business Administration from Laurentian University. She has professional accounting experience with Palmer, Badger & Co, Chartered Professional Accountants, as well as industry experience working in management. She has served on various volunteer boards as treasurer and fundraising manager in her community.

Volume 1
1. Accounting in Action
2. The Recording Process
3. Adjusting the Accounts
4. Completion of the Accounting Cycle
5. Accounting for Merchandising Operations
6. Inventory Costing
7. Internal Control and Cash
8. Accounting for Receivables
9. Long-Lived Assets
10. Current Liabilities and Payroll
Appendix A Specimen Financial Statements
Appendix B Sales Taxes
Appendix C Accounting Information Systems

Volume 2
9. Long-Lived Assets
10. Current Liabilities and Payroll
11. Financial Reporting Concepts
12. Accounting for Partnerships
13. Introduction to Corporations
14. Corporations: Additional Topics and IFRS
15. Non-Current Liabilities
16. Investments
17. The Cash Flow Statement
18. Financial Statement Analysis
Appendix A Specimen Financial Statements
Appendix B Sales Taxes
Appendix PV Present Value Concepts