Principles of Accounting

Bob Libby is the David A. Thomas Professor of Management in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Bob has a national reputation as a leading academician and is one of the top five behavioral accountants in North America. Bob teaches MBA and Executive MBA courses in Financial Accounting at Cornell. Please note: Bob Libby is teaching at Univ. of Texas at Austin through June 1, 1999. Pat Libby is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research activities focus on how to use cases in introductory accounting and on using Collaborative Learning techniques in the classroom. She teaches undergraduate introductory, intermediate, and advanced Financial Accounting at Ithaca. Dan Short is the Dean of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University. Prior to that he was the Dean of the Business School at Kansas State University and prior to that he taught at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has won numerous teaching awards during his career teaching both undergraduate and MBA financial accounting courses. Pat Libby is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research activities focus on how to use cases in introductory accounting and on using Collaborative Learning techniques in the classroom. She teaches undergraduate introductory, intermediate, and advanced Financial Accounting at Ithaca.

• 1Accounting and Starting a Business 2Establishing a Business and the Balance Sheet 3Operating a Business and the Income Statement 4Completing the Accounting Cycle 5Accounting Systems 6Merchandising Operations 7Inventories 8Internal Control and Cash 9Receivables 10Long-lived Tangible and Intangible Assets 11Current Liabilities and Payroll 12Partnerships 13Accounting for Corporations 14Long-term Liabilities 15Accounting for Investments 16Reporting and Interpreting Statement of Cash Flows 17Financial Statement Analysis 18Managerial Accounting 19Job Order Costing 20Process Costing and Activity Based Costing 21Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis 22Incremental Analysis and Capital Budgeting 23Budgeting and Planning 24 Budgetary Control 25Decentralized Performance Evaluation