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Instructor Edition
Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions, 4/e

John J. Wild, University of Wisconsin at Madison

ISBN: 0073043753
Copyright year: 2008

Supplements



INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS

Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM
ISBN: 9780073043821
MHID: 0073043826
This is your all-in-one resource. It allows you to create custom presentations from your own materials or from the following text-specific materials provided in the CD’s asset library:

  • Instructor’s Resource Manual
  • Solutions Manual
  • Test Bank, Computerized
  • Test Bank
  • PowerPoint® Presentations: Prepared by Debra Schmidt, Cerritos College and Domenico A.Tavella and Tim Samolis, Pittsburgh Technical Institute. Presentations allow for revision of lecture slides, and includes a viewer, allowing screens to be shown with or without the software.
  • Excel Template Assignments
  • Link to PageOut
  • Video Clips

Algorithmic Test Bank
ISBN: 9780073263991
MHID: 0073263990

Online Course Management
No matter what online course management system you use (WebCT, BlackBoard, or eCollege), we have a course content ePack available for Financial Accounting 4e. Our new ePacks are specifically designed to make it easy for students to navigate and access content online.They are easier than ever to install on the latest version of the course management system available today. Don’t forget that you can count on the highest level of service from McGraw-Hill. Our online course management specialists are ready to assist you with your online course needs. They provide training and will answer any questions you have throughout the life of your adoption. So try our new ePack for Financial Accounting 4e and make online course content delivery easy and fun.

PageOut: McGraw-Hill’s Course Management System
PageOut is the easiest way to create a Website for your accounting course.There is no need for HTML coding, graphic design, or a thick how-to book. Just fill in a series of boxes with simple English and click on one of our professional designs. In no time, your course is online with a Website that contains your syllabus! Should you need assistance in preparing your Website, we can help. Our team of product specialists is ready to take your course materials and build a custom Website to your specifications. You simply need to call a McGraw-Hill/Irwin PageOut specialist to start the process.To learn more, please visit www.pageout.net and see “PageOut and Service” below. Best of all, PageOut is free when you adopt Financial Accounting! PageOut Service Our team of product specialists is happy to help you design your own course Website. Just call 1-800-634- 3963, press 0, and ask to speak with a PageOut specialist.You will be asked to send in your course materials and then participate in a brief telephone consultation. Once we have your information,we build your Website for you from scratch.

CPS Classroom Performance System
This is a revolutionary system that brings ultimate interactivity to the classroom. CPS is a wireless response system that gives you immediate feedback from every student in the class. CPS units include easy-to-use software for creating and delivering questions and assessments to your class.With CPS you can ask subjective and objective questions. Then every student simply responds with their individual, wireless response pad, providing instant results. CPS is the perfect tool for engaging students while gathering important assessment data.

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is a Web-based supplement that duplicates problem structures directly from the end-of-chapter material in your textbook, using algorithms to provide a limitless supply of online self-graded assignments that can be used for student practice,homework, or testing. Each assignment has a unique solution. Say goodbye to cheating in your classroom; say hello to the power and flexibility you’ve been waiting for in creating assignments. All Quick Studies, Exercises, and Problems are available with Homework Manager. McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is also a useful grading tool. All assignments can be delivered over the Web and are graded automatically, with the results stored in your private grade book. 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 to solve it.

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus
If you use Homework Manager in your course, your students can purchase McGraw-Hill's Homework Manager Plus for Financial Accounting 4e. Homework Manager Plus gives students direct access to an online edition of the text while working assignments within Homework Manager. If you get stuck working a problem, simply click the “Hint” link and jump directly to relevant content in the online edition of the text.Visit the Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/wild4e to purchase McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus.

Carol Yacht’s General Ledger Software is McGraw-Hill/Irwin’s custom-built general ledger package for this book. Carol Yacht’s General Ledger can help your students master every aspect of the general ledger, from inputting sales and cash receipts to calculating ratios for analysis or inventory valuations. Carol Yacht’s General Ledger allows students to review an entire report, and then double-click on any single transaction to review or edit it. All reports immediately reflect the revised figures. When it comes to learning how an individual transaction effects the outcome of financial reports, no other approach matches that of Carol Yacht’s General Ledger. Also on Carol Yacht’s General Ledger CD, students receive the educational version of Peachtree Complete 2007, along with templates containing data for many of this book’s exercises and problems. Familiarity with Peachtree Complete is essential for many students entering the job market, and Carol Yacht’s Peachtree templates makes sure they get plenty of practice. Students can use Carol Yacht’s General Ledger to solve numerous problems from the book; the data for these problems are already included on the General Ledger CDROM. You can even populate the General Ledger with your own custom data for your class.

ALEKS® for the Accounting Cycle and ALEKS® for Financial Accounting. Available from McGraw-Hill over the World Wide Web, ALEKS (Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces) provides precise assessment and individualized instruction in the fundamental skills your students need to succeed in accounting. ALEKS motivates your students because ALEKS can tell what a student knows, doesn’t know, and is most ready to learn next. ALEKS does this using the ALEKS Assessment and Knowledge Space Theory as an artificial intelligence engine to exactly identify a student’s knowledge of accounting. When students focus on precisely what they are ready to learn, they build the confidence and learning momentum that fuel success. To learn more about adding ALEKS to your principles course, visit www.business.aleks.com.

STUDENT SUPPLEMENTS

Excel Working Papers CD
ISBN: 9780073043760
MHID: 0073043761
Written by John J.Wild. Working Papers delivered in Excel spreadsheets. Excel Working Papers are available on CD-ROM.

Zinio eBook
ISBN: 978007326394
MHID: 0073263982

Study Guide to accompany Financial Accounting 4e
ISBN: 9780073043791
MHID: 0073043796
Revised by April L. Mohr, Jefferson Community and Technical College, SW

Carol Yacht’s General Ledger andPeachtree Complete 2007 CD-ROM
ISBN: 9780073316956
MHID: 0073316954
GL Software developed by Jack E.Terry, ComSource Associates, Inc. Peachtree templates prepared by Carol Yacht. The CD-ROM includes fully functioning versions of McGraw-Hill’s own General Ledger Application software as well as Peachtree Complete 2007. Problem templates are included that allow you to assign text problems for working in either Yacht’s General Ledger or Peachtree Complete 2007.

Topic Tackler Plus DVD
ISBN: 9780073043838
MHID: 0073043834
Prepared by Jeannie Folk, College of DuPage.
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.

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is a Web-based supplement that duplicates problem structures directly from the end-of-chapter material in your textbook, using algorithms to provide a limitless supply of online self-graded assignments that can be used for student practice,homework, or testing. Each assignment has a unique solution. Say goodbye to cheating in your classroom; say hello to the power and flexibility you’ve been waiting for in creating assignments. All Quick Studies, Exercises, and Problems are available with Homework Manager. McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager is also a useful grading tool. All assignments can be delivered over the Web and are graded automatically, with the results stored in your private grade book. 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 to solve it.

McGraw-Hill’s Homework Manager Plus
is an extension of McGraw-Hill’s popular Homework Manager System. With Homework Manager Plus you get all of the power of Homework Manager plus an integrated online version of the text. Students simply receive one single access code which provides access to all of the resources available through Homework Manager Plus.When students find themselves needing to reference the textbook in order to complete their homework, now they can simply click on hints and link directly to the most relevant materials associated with the problem or exercise they are working on.

iPod Content:
Harness the power of one of the most popular technology tools students use today–the Apple iPod. Our innovative approach allows students to download audio and video presentations right into their iPod and take learning materials with them wherever they go. Students just need to visit the Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/wild4e to download our free iPod content. For each chapter of the book they will be able to download audio narrated lecture presentations, financial accounting videos, and even self quizzes designed for use on various versions of iPods. It makes review and study time as easy as putting in headphones.

Zinio Digital Edition
A leader in digital media, Zinio offers students using Financial Accounting 4e the full benefit of its powerful, flexible digital reading system. Using the Zinio reader, you can search your digital textbook, highlight important passages, or jot down electronic notes. Navigating a textbook has never been easier.You can even print pages to study from off line. To order your Zinio Digital Edition of Financial Accounting 4e visit www.textbooks.zinio.com. With either option you choose you’ll be blown away by what you can do and how much you'll save.

Online Learning Center (OLC)
We offer an Online Learning Center (OLC) that follows Financial Accounting chapter by chapter. It doesn’t require any building or maintenance on your part. It’s ready to go the moment you and your students type in the URL: www.mhhe.com/wild4e. As students study and learn from Financial Accounting, they can visit the Student Edition of the OLC Website to work with a multitude of helpful tools:
A secured Instructor Edition stores essential course materials to save you prep time before class. Everything you need to run a lively classroom and an efficient course is included. All resources available to students, plus . . .

The OLC Website also serves as a doorway to other technology solutions, like course management systems.

  • Generic Template Working Papers
  • Chapter Learning Objectives
  • Chapter Glossaries
  • Key Term Flashcards
  • Interactive Chapter Quizzes A and B
  • PowerPoint® Presentations
  • Narrated PowerPoint® Presentations
  • Topic Tackler Plus Tutorial
  • Video Segments
  • Excel Template Assignments
  • Animated Demonstration Problems
  • Problem Set C
  • More Taking It To The Net Exercises
  • BusinessWeek articles
  • Appendixes D and E
  • Sample Syllabi
  • Transition Notes
  • Cogg Hill Practice Set Solutions Manual
  • General Ledger and Peachtree Solution Files
  • Instructor’s Manual
  • Solutions Manual
  • Solutions to Excel Template Assignments
  • Solutions to Problem Set C
  • Solutions to More Taking It To The Net Exercises

To obtain an instructor login for this Online Learning Center, ask your local sales representative. If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.