Loose Leaf Intermediate Accounting

by James Sepe, Wayne Thomas, David Spiceland, Mark Nelson

Overview

The Spiceland/Nelson/Thomas author team has created the new standard in Intermediate Accounting by providing students the most accessible, comprehensive, and current Intermediate Accounting learning system. The rigorous yet readable approach has won over instructors across the country while the coherent, consistent voice of this highly dedicated, deeply engaged author team has significantly improved student understanding. The Spiceland team is committed to providing current, comprehensive, and clear coverage of Intermediate Accounting, and the tenth edition continues to leverage Connect as the premier digital teaching and learning tool on the market.

Spiceland/Nelson/Thomas’s Intermediate Accounting excels in fully preparing students for the CPA exam and their future careers through the materials highly acclaimed conversational writing style, carefully tuned pedagogy, and wealth of online tools. The authors help students develop a better understanding of both theoretical and practical concepts, guiding them to a more complete mastery of accounting principles.

The new tenth edition has produced the most cleanly streamlined, thoroughly market-tested, and fully integrated coverage for the latest GAAP and Accounting Standards Updates, as well as tax reforms from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including:

• Income Taxes (ch. 16)
• Leases (ch. 15)
• Revenue recognition (ch. 5)

An extensive collection of NEW and updated technology assets highlight further enhancements in this edition, such as:

• Tableau Data Analytics Cases
• Auto-Graded Decision Makers’ Perspective cases
• General Ledger Problems
• Concept Overview Videos
• Excel Simulations
• Guided Example Hint Videos
• ALEKS Accounting Cycle Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260481952
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/02/2019
Edition description:	10th ed.
Pages:	1408
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jim Sepe is an associate professor of accounting at Santa Clara University, where he teaches primarily intermediate accounting in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. Professor Sepe received his BS from Santa Clara University, MBA from the University of California – Berkeley, and PhD from the University of Washington.


Wayne Thomas is the W. K. Newton Chair in Accounting at the University of Oklahoma, where he teaches introductory financial accounting and intermediate accounting. He received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and his master’s and PhD in accounting from Oklahoma State University. Professor Thomas has won teaching awards at the university, college, and departmental levels, and has received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Oklahoma Society of CPAs. Wayne is also a co-author on McGraw-Hill’s best-selling Financial Accounting, with David Spiceland and Don Herrmann.


His primary research interests are in markets-based accounting research, financial disclosures, financial statement analysis, and international accounting issues. He previously served as an editor of The Accounting Review and has published articles in a variety of journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Contemporary Accounting Research. He has won several research awards, including the American Accounting Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award. Professor Thomas enjoys various activities such as tennis, basketball, golf, and crossword puzzles, and most of all, he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids.




David Spiceland is Accounting Professor Emeritus at the University of Memphis. He received his BS degree in finance from the University of Tennessee, his MBA from Southern Illinois University, and his PhD in accounting from the University of Arkansas.


Professor Spiceland’s primary research interests are in earnings management and educational research. He has published articles in a variety of journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Financial Research, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, and most accounting education journals: Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, Advances in Accounting Education, The Accounting Educators’ Journal, Accounting Education, The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, and Journal of Business Education. David has received university and college awards and recognition for his teaching, research, and technological innovations in the classroom. David is a co-author on McGraw-Hill’s best-selling Intermediate Accounting text, with Mark Nelson and Wayne Thomas.


David enjoys playing basketball, is a former all-state linebacker, and is an avid fisherman. Cooking is a passion for David, who served as sous chef for Paula Deen at a Mid-South Fair cooking demonstration.



Mark Nelson is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting at Cornell University’s S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. He received his BBA degree from Iowa State University and his MA and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University.

Professor Nelson has won ten teaching awards, including an inaugural Cook Prize from the American Accounting Association. Professor Nelson’s research focuses on decision making in financial accounting and auditing. His research has been published in the Accounting Review; the Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations and Society; and several other journals. He has received the American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, as well as the AAA’s Wildman Medal for work judged to make a significant contribution to practice.

Professor Nelson served three terms as an area editor of The Accounting Review and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals. He also served for four years on the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Section 1: The Role of Accounting as an Information System
Ch. 1 Environment and Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting
Ch. 2 Review of the Accounting Process
Ch. 3 The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures
Ch. 4 The Income Statement, Comprehensive Income, and the Statement of Cash Flows
Ch. 5 Time Value of Money Concepts
Ch. 6 Revenue Recognition

Section 2: Assets
Ch. 7 Cash and Receivables
Ch. 8 Inventories: Measurement
Ch. 9 Inventories: Additional Issues
Ch. 10 Property, Plant, and Equipment and Intangible Assets: Acquisition
Ch. 11 Property, Plant, and Equipment and Intangible Assets: Utilization and Disposition
Ch. 12 Investments

Section 3: Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity
Ch. 13 Current Liabilities and Contingencies
Ch. 14 Bonds and Long-Term Notes
Ch. 15 Leases
Ch. 16 Accounting for Income Taxes
Ch. 17 Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits
Ch. 18 Shareholders' Equity

Section 4: Additional Finance Reporting Issues
Ch. 19 Share-Based Compensation and Earnings Per Share
Ch. 20 Accounting Changes and Error Corrections
Ch. 21 The Statement of Cash Flows Revisited

Appendix A: Derivatives
Appendix B: GAAP Comprehensive Case
Appendix C: IFRS Comprehensive Case
Present and Future Value Tables