Survey of Accounting: 2026 Release ISE

Christopher T. Edmonds, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the UAB Collat School of Business. He also is the course coordinator for the face-to-face and online principles of accounting courses. Dr. Edmonds specializes in teaching and developing engaging face-to-face and online introductory accounting courses. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities on best teaching practices and has delivered over 40 professional teaching workshops. His passion for helping students learn inspired him to create hundreds of short videos teaching the fundamental concepts of accounting. This work led to the publication of the first interactive video textbook for introductory accounting.Dr. Edmonds has received seven prestigious teaching awards including the UAB President’s Outstanding Teaching Award, UAB Faculty Student Success Award, UAB Transformative Online Course Award, UAB Loudell Ellis Robinson Classroom Teaching Award, UAB Disability Support Recognition Award, and the Virginia Tech Favorite Faculty Award. He has published four textbooks and has written numerous articles that have appeared in publications including The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Issues in Accounting Education, Advances in Accounting Education, Advances in Accounting, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He currently serves on several editorial boards. Dr. Edmonds started his career as a web application developer creating software solutions to put newspapers online.He began his academic training at Colorado State University. He obtained an MBA from UAB. His PhD with a major in accounting was awarded by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Olds is associate professor of accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He serves as the coordinator of the introduction to accounting courses at VCU. Professor Olds received his AS degree from Brunswick Junior College in Brunswick, Georgia (now Costal Georgia College). He received a BBA in accounting from Georgia Southern College (now Georgia Southern University), and his MPA and PhD degrees are from Georgia State University. After graduating from Georgia Southern, he worked as an auditor with the U.S. Department of Labor in Atlanta, Georgia. A former CPA in Virginia, Professor Olds has published articles in various professional journals and presented papers at national and regional conferences. He also served as the faculty adviser to the VCU chapter of Beta Alpha Psi for five years.In 1989, he was recognized with an Outstanding Faculty Vice-President Award by the national Beta Alpha Psi organization. Professor Olds has received both the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the VCU School of Business. Most recently, he received the university’s award for maintaining High Ethical and Academic Standards While Advocating for Student-Athletes and Their Quest Towards a Degree.

• 1. An Introduction to Accounting2. Accounting for Accruals and Deferrals3. Accounting for Merchandising Businesses4. Internal Controls, Accounting for Cash, and Ethics5. Accounting for Receivables and Inventory Cost Flow6. Accounting for Long-Term Operational Assets7. Accounting for Liabilities8. Proprietorships, Partnerships, and Corporations9. Financial Statement Analysis10. An Introduction to Management Accounting11. Cost Behavior, Operating Leverage, and Profitability Analysis12. Cost Accumulation, Tracing, and Allocation13. Relevant Information for Special Decisions14. Planning for Profit and Cost Control15. Performance Evaluation16. Planning for Capital InvestmentsAppendixA: Accessing the EDGAR Database through the InternetB: The Double-Entry Accounting SystemC: Portion of the Form 10-K for Target CorporationD: Annual Report and Financial Statement Analysis ProjectsE: Big Data and Data Visualizations Overview