Acknowledgements

Accounting 211 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA), except where otherwise noted.

This Open Educational Resource textbook has been adapted from the following 2 OpenStax textbooks:

• OpenStax: Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial Accounting
• OpenStax: Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial Accounting

OpenStax: Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial Accounting

• Chapter 1: Role of Accounting in Society
• Chapter 2: Introduction to Financial Statements
• Chapter 3: Analyzing and Recording Transactions
• Chapter 4: The Adjustment Process
• Chapter 5: Completing the Accounting Cycle
• Chapter 6: Merchandising Transactions
• Chapter 8: Fraud, Internal Controls, and Cash
• Chapter 9: Accounting for Receivables
• Chapter 10: Inventory
• Chapter 11: Long-term Assets
• Chapter 12: Current Liabilities
• Chapter 13: Long-term Liabilities
• Chapter 14: Corporation Accounting

OpenStax Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial Accounting

• Chapter 3: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
• Chapter 4: Job Order Costing
• Chapter 5: Process Costing
• Chapter 6: Activity-Based, Variable, and Absorption Costing
• Chapter 7: Budgeting
• Chapter 8: Standard Costs and Variances

Chapters and sections were borrowed and adapted from the above existing OER textbooks. Without these foundational texts, a lot more work would have been required to complete this project. Thank you to those who shared before us.

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

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