The Power of Accounting: What the Numbers Mean and How to Use Them

The Power of Accounting: What the Numbers Mean and How to Use Them provides a highly readable text for non-financial managers. It explores accounting's uses and limitations in the management process. The text is intended for users of accounting information as opposed to preparers. It focuses on aiding the reader in understanding what accounting numbers mean, what they do not mean, when and how they can be used for decision making and planning and when they cannot. Author: Lawrence LewisPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 01/20/2012Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780415884310Review Citation(s): Choice 08/01/2012About the AuthorLarry Lewis is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Portland's Pamplin School of Business, USA. He earned his B.A. and his M.A and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. He served as the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. School of Business Dean from June of 2001-June of 2006. He currently teaches accounting at both