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Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th Edition

Claudia Bienias Gilbertson, CPA, Mark W. Lehman, Daniel Passalacqua

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Overview

Transform your high school accounting course with CENTURY 21 ACCOUNTING ADVANCED 10E, the leader in high school accounting education for more than 100 years. Input from educators, accounting professionals, content experts, and high school accounting students has informed the tenth edition's new critical-thinking activities, real-world applications, updated accounting instruction, and enhanced online learning solutions, including Online Working Papers and Automated Accounting Online computerized accounting software.

CENTURY 21 ACCOUNTING 10E maintains its renowned instructional design and step-by-step approach to teaching the mechanics of accounting. Greater emphasis on conceptual understanding and financial statement analysis in the tenth edition encourages students to apply accounting concepts to real-world situations and make informed business decisions. New features like Forensic Accounting, Think Like an Accountant, Financial Literacy, and Why Accounting? are a few examples of the expanded opportunities for students to master valued skills, such as critical thinking and technology use, as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. In addition, commercial technology, integrated throughout the text, equips students to work with Microsoft Excel®, Sage 50®, QuickBooks®, and Automated Accounting Online, with step-by-step instructions and the flexibility to use a variety of commercial software programs.

Trust the dedicated leader in accounting education to transform your accounting course with a time-tested instructional design, enhanced digital solutions, and a comprehensive package to address your contemporary classroom needs and prepare your students for success in the 21st century.

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Meet the Authors

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Claudia Bienias Gilbertson, CPA

Claudia B. Gilbertson, Certified Public Accountant, served as a highly effective high school instructor for 11 years and a community college instructor for 25 years. While retired from North Hennepin Community College, Ms. Gilbertson remains active in shaping today's educational processes as she serves as a respected and sought-after consultant for numerous online accounting learning solutions. She is active in the National Business Education Association, North Central Business Education Association, and Minnesota Business Educators, Inc.

Mark W. Lehman

Mark W. Lehman, assistant professor emeritus of Accountancy at the Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy at Mississippi State University, teaches Accounting Information Systems and Forensic Accounting. A former auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dr. Lehman is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Dr. Lehman writes journal articles and consults with accountants on the use of software in fraud detection. He was awarded Outstanding Educator by the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants in 2007.

Daniel Passalacqua

Daniel Passalacqua teaches accounting at Oak Grove High School in San Jose, CA.

What's New

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  • Greater emphasis on conceptual understanding and financial statement analysis has been incorporated into the 10th edition, making it easier to balance coverage of accounting mechanics with how accounting information is used to make business decisions.
  • Critical-thinking activities are infused throughout the text to provide more opportunities for higher-level thinking and analysis, preparing students for college and career challenges.
  • 21st Century Skills, included in the end-of-chapter material, provides activities that cultivate mastery of essential skills such as problem solving, communication, and technology use as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. Acquisition of the knowledge and skills taught in this feature will prepare students to compete in a workplace that demands creativity and innovation.
  • Think Like an Accountant presents challenging problems that correspond to higher-level thinking skills based on the criteria established in Bloom's Taxonomy. Excel templates are provided for students to use as an analysis tool to compare and contrast employer benefit plans and analyze how their decisions affect the company's bottom line.
  • Forensic Accounting presents criminal investigations involving fraud, providing students the opportunity to apply what they are learning in class to a real-world scenario. Students will examine the fraud scenarios, using Excel to analyze the data and continue the investigation.

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  • The organization ensures clear student understanding. Students start with a departmentalized merchandising business organized as a corporation. They move on to managerial and cost accounting concepts in a manufacturing company organized as a corporation, and conclude with special topics including internal controls, partnerships, and not-for-profit organizations. The step-by-step instructional approach clearly reinforces text concepts, while the consistent use of T accounts increases student comprehension of journalizing transactions.
  • The lesson structure consists of three or four lessons per chapter and corresponding assessment activities. Each end-of-lesson section includes a Work Together problem and an On Your Own assignment. The Work Together problem allows you to demonstrate the new accounting concept to your class. Students can then check their understanding by completing the On Your Own assignment. The end-of-chapter material includes short application problems to ensure students' understanding before they tackle the longer mastery and challenge problems.
  • Learning Objectives connect the chapter coverage from beginning to end. Learning objectives are identified at point of introduction and in the end-of-chapter problems, making it easier for students to stay on track. By paying attention to the learning objectives, students can focus on what is important.
  • 21st Century Skills, included in the end-of-chapter material, provides activities that cultivate mastery of essential skills such as problem solving, communication, and technology use as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Acquisition of the knowledge and skills taught in this feature will prepare students to compete in a workplace that demands creativity and innovation.
  • Critical-thinking activities are infused throughout the text to provide more opportunities for higher-level thinking and analysis, preparing students for college and career.

Table of Contents

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PART I: DEPARTMENTALIZED ACCOUNTING.
1. Recording Departmental Purchases and Cash Payments.
2. Recording Departmental Sales and Cash Receipts.
3. Calculating and Recording Departmental Payroll Data.
4. Financial Reporting for a Departmentalized Business.
Reinforcement Activity 1: Processing and Reporting Departmentalized Accounting Data.
PART II: ACCOUNTING ADJUSTMENTS AND VALUATIONS.
5. Inventory Planning and Valuation.
6. Accounting for Uncollectible Accounts.
7. Accounting for Plant Assets.
8. Accounting for Notes Payable, Prepaid Expenses, and Accrued Expenses.
9. Accounting for Unearned Revenue, Accrued Revenue, and Installment Notes Receivable.
Reinforcement Activity 2: Processing Accounting Data for a Corporation.
PART III: CORPORATION ACCOUNTING.
10. Organizing a Corporation.
11. Corporate Dividends and Treasury Stock.
12. Accounting for Bonds.
13. Financial Reporting and Analysis for a Corporation.
14. Statement of Cash Flows.
Reinforcement Activity 3: Processing and Analyzing Accounting Data for a Corporation.
PART IV: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING.
15. Budgetary Planning and Control
16. Management Decision Making Using Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis.
17. : Job Order Costing.
18. Management Decision Making Using Differential Analysis.
19. Other Costing Methods.
Reinforcement Activity 4: Processing and Reporting Cost Accounting Data for a Manufacturing Business.
PART V: INTERNAL CONTROL AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES.
20. Internal Control.
21. Organizational Structure of a Partnership.
22. Financial Reporting for a Partnership.
23. Budgeting and Accounting for a Not-for-Profit Organization.
24. Financial Reporting for a Not-for-Profit Organization.
Appendix A: Accounting Concepts.
Appendix B: Analyzing Home Depot's Financial Statements.
Appendix C: Recycling Problems.
Appendix D: Answers to Audit Your Understanding.
English Glossary.
Spanish Glossary.
Index.

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Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.

FOR INSTRUCTORS

Working Papers, Chapters 1-14, Teachers Edition for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133958536
Solutions to Working Papers help you efficiently grade work and progress.

Working Papers, Chapter 15-24 for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133103707
Printed Working Papers help students efficiently complete end-of-lesson, end-of-chapter, and reinforcement activities, as well as improved chapter study guides.

Organic Aisles Manual Simulation Key for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

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Recycling Problems Working Papers, Teacher's Edition for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

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Adventure Gear Manual Simulation Key for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133588320
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Working Papers, Chapters 1-14 for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

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Printed Working Papers help students efficiently complete end-of-lesson, end of-chapter, and reinforcement activities, as well as improved chapter study guides.

Recycling Problems Working Papers for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

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Printed Working Papers help you efficiently complete Recycling Problems from Appendix C in the text.

Working Papers, Chapters 1-24 for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

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Printed Working Papers help students efficiently complete end-of-lesson, end-of-chapter, and reinforcement activities, as well as improved chapter study guides.

Working Papers, Chapters 15-24, Teachers Edition for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133958529
Solutions to Working Papers help you efficiently grade work and progress.

Wraparound Teacher's Edition for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133103660
The Wraparound Teacher's Edition features an updated instructional design framework, Common Core tagging, essential questions, tips for differentiated instruction, teaching ideas to increase student engagement, an overview of each accounting part, teaching strategies, a Resource Integration Guide, and check figures.

FOR STUDENTS

Working Papers, Chapter 15-24 for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133103707
Printed Working Papers help students efficiently complete end-of-lesson, end-of-chapter, and reinforcement activities, as well as improved chapter study guides.

Working Papers, Chapters 1-14 for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781133103684
Printed Working Papers help students efficiently complete end-of-lesson, end of-chapter, and reinforcement activities, as well as improved chapter study guides.

Recycling Problems Working Papers for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781111990930
Printed Working Papers help you efficiently complete Recycling Problems from Appendix C in the text.

Working Papers, Chapters 1-24 for Gilbertson/Lehman/Passalacqua's Century 21 Accounting: Advanced, 10th

ISBN: 9781285073286
Printed Working Papers help students efficiently complete end-of-lesson, end-of-chapter, and reinforcement activities, as well as improved chapter study guides.