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For courses in Introduction to Financial Accounting. This best-selling text offers a relevant, real-world approach to financial accounting. Students learn how to evaluate and analyze a typical corporate annual report and to use accounting as a tool in understanding business. An exceptionally strong pedagogy and supplements package and flexible structure provide instructors with great latitude in choosing various combinations of breadth and depth, theory and procedures, simplicity and complexity. The Eighth Edition now includes: student-oriented real-world company examples such as Cisco, Nantucket Nectars, and Teva; new "Cognitive Exercises" and "Business First" boxes; new on-line courses and step-by-step tutorials on the leading professional software packages; and new CD-ROM series, "Mastering Accounting."