Financial Analysis: These features tie important chapter concepts to real-world decision-making examples. They also highlight alternative viewpoints and add to the critical thinking and decision-making focus of the text.

Self-Study Quizzes: This active learning feature engages the student, provides interactivity, and promotes efficient learning. Research shows that students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process. These quizzes ask students to pause at strategic points throughout each chapter to ensure that they understand key points before moving ahead.

International Perspective: These sections highlight the emergence of global competition and resulting business issues throughout the text as well as the end-of-chapter material.

Real-World Excerpts: These insightful excerpts appear throughout the text and include annual report information from the focus companies, as well as numerous other companies, news articles from various publications, analysts’ reports, 10-K forms, press releases, and First Call notes.

Key Ratio Analysis: Students will be better prepared to use financial information if they learn to evaluate elements of financial performance as they learn how to measure and report them. For this reason, we include relevant key ratios in each chapter in Key Ratio Analysis sections. Each Key Ratio Analysis box presents ratio analysis for the focus company in the chapter as well as for comparative companies. Cautions are also provided to help students understand the limitations of certain ratios

A Question of Ethics: These boxes appear throughout the text, conveying the importance of acting responsibly in business practice.

Focus on Cash Flows: Each of the first 12 chapters includes a discussion and analysis of changes in the cash flow of the focus company and explores the decisions that caused those changes. The early and consistent coverage of cash flows encourages students to think more critically about the decisions they will face as managers and the impact those decisions will have on the company’s cash flow.

Organization of the Chapter Schematic: unique feature of Libby/Libby/Short, this visual framework provides a powerful visual schematic of each chapter’s content, easily enabling students to find exactly the chapter topic or concept they’re looking for.

All Journal Entries Tied to Accounting Equation: Journal entries marked with (A), (L), (SE), (R), (E), or (X, if a contra-account) and plus and minus signs in early chapters assist students in transaction analysis. In addition, following each journal entry is a summary of the effects of the transaction on the fundamental accounting equation.

Topic Tackler Plus DVD: For today’s technologically savvy students, Topic Tackler Plus is a DVD tutorial that offers a virtual helping hand in understanding the most challenging topics of the financial accounting course. Through a step-by-step sequence of video clips, audio-narrated slides, interactive practice exercises, and self-tests, Topic Tackler offers help on two key topics for every chapter, keeping your students engaged and learning as they read.Topic Tackler Plus content is also accessible from the textbook’s Online Learning Center, allowing students to access these powerful resources anywhere, at any time.

Excel Templates for use with the Annual Report Cases: If you’re going to work in accounting (or business in general), you have to know Microsoft Excel. Students use the real annual reports of American Eagle Outfitters and Pacific Sunwear of California with accompanying Excel Templates to manipulate real-world data and solve problems. These assignments allow students to experience problem solving as it truly happens in real companies. (The annual reports are found in the textbook appendiXes and on this DVD. The Excel Templates are found on the DVD and on the book’s website.)

Algorithmic Test Bank: If you’ve ever thought that no test bank, however well made, could have all of the problems you could possibly need, think again. The Algorithmic Test Bank available with Libby/Libby/Short includes a problem generator that replicates the structure of text problems while populating them with fresh numbers. Create unique versions of every homework assignment, every quiz, every test—or use it to provide dozens of similar but distinct problems for students to practice on.

Narrated Slides: The next best thing to a private lecture, Libby/Libby/Short’s narrated slides combine spoken narration, animation, and easy navigability to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-follow study aid for students brushing up for a quiz or a test. Every chapter has its own presentation that closely follows that chapter’s organization, even reproducing key chapter figures and exhibits.

Online Learning Center
www.mhhe.com/libby5e
For instructors, Libby’s Online Learning Center contains the Instructor’s Resource Manual, PowerPoint slides, Solutions Manual, Excel Templates tied to the end-of-chapter material, and the Annual Report Cases Templates, all organized by chapter. There are also links to professional resources. In addition, for students and instructors, there are two appendixes linked to the text material, check figures, articles tied to end-of-chapter material, Web links to the focus company financial statements, and McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager (see the next item). Instructors can pull all of this material into their PageOut course syllabus or use it as part of another online course management system.The student section of the site includes (in addition to the preceding elements) Topic Tackler Plus content (see page VI), self-quizzes, learning objectives, PowerPoint slides, chapter outlines, chapter take-aways, and digital flashcards.

McGraw Hill's Homework Manager
ISBN 978-007322614-9 (0073226149)
McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is a Web-based supplement that duplicates problem structures directly from the end-of-chapter material in Financial Accounting, fifth edition, using algorithms to provide a limitless supply of online self-graded practice for students or assignments and tests with unique versions of every problem. Say goodbye to cheating in your classroom; say hello to the power and flexibility you’ve been waiting for in creating assignments.McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is also a useful grading tool. All assignments can be delivered over the Web and graded automatically, with the results stored in your private gradebook. Detailed results let you see at a glance how each student does on an assignment or an individual problem—you can even see how many tries it took the student to solve it.

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus
ISBN 978-007322587-6 (0073225878)
McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus gathers all of Financial Accounting’s online student resources under one convenient access point. Combining the power and flexibility of McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager with other proven technology tools, McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus provides the best value available for the student eager to embrace the full benefits of online study and review. In addition to McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager, students may also access NetTutor. Only available through McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus, NetTutor connects students with qualified tutors online. Students can work with an online tutor in real time, or post a question to be answered within 24 hours. Homework Manager Plus adopters receive unlimited tutoring time on NetTutor. Interactive Online Version of the Textbook. In addition to the textbook, students can rely on this online version of the text for a convenient way to study. This interactive web-based textbook contains hotlinks to key definitions and real company websites and is integrated with Homework Manager to give students quick access to relevant content as they work through problems, exercises, and practice quizzes.