Includes index.

"Create an attractive profile that gets attention. Market yourself through connections and groups. Identify potential partners, pals, and investors" -- Cover.

Getting a financial accounting initiation -- Seeing the big picture of financial accounting -- Introducing the big three financial statements -- Running the numbers for success -- Acronym alert! setting the standards for financial accounting -- Reviewing some accounting basics -- Booking it: the process behind financial accounting -- Focusing on accounting methods and concepts -- Spending quality time with the balance sheet -- Assessing the balance sheet's asset section -- Digging for debt in the liabilities section -- Letting owners know where they stand: the equity section -- Investigating income and cash flow -- Searching for profit or loss on the income statement -- Following the money by studying cash flow -- Examining depreciation cost flow assumptions -- Learning about inventory cost flow assumptions -- Analyzing the financial statements -- Using ratios and other tools -- Got your dictionary ready? reading explanatory notes and disclosures -- Studying the report to the shareholders -- Feeling brave? tackling more advanced financial accounting topics -- Accounting for emerging issues -- Accounting for income taxes -- Accounting for leases -- Reporting changes in methods and the correction of errors -- The part of tens -- Ten financial accounting shenanigans -- Ten accounting career opportunities.