Textbook:
Note: If you need financial assistance to purchase the text, please call
Cecile Banks at the Financial Aid office at IVC (415)457-8811 x8118. I will post the first few
chapters of the book onto our website at Visual Aids and Chapter Outlines for those of you who are
waiting for books.
It is important that you obtain your textbook in the first two weeks, or
have made arrangements to share a textbook with another. We are using the 6th
edition of Financial Accounting but you may use the 5th or the International Student Version. All the
classwork and homework problems at the back of each chapter of those books are different than the
6th edition problems we will be doing. However this website has a complete scan of the 6th edition
problems we will be doing that you can use to solve problems.
College of Marin Bookstore (IVC) hours of operation for the first two weeks usually is
8am-2pm Mon-Fri and 5:30-7pm Mon-Thurs but please call 415-485-9394 to check. The College
of Marin bookstore at Kentfield 8am-7pm Mon-Thurs. To order books online, go to
http://marin.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?
storeId=43558&catalogId=10001&langId=-1 and follow instructions. The class title is BUS 112.
Section 80124 is the Kentfield class, and 80126 is the IVC class.
Required reading - Financial Accounting, Weygandt, Kieso, Kimmel, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc.,Publishers Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-0-470-12884-8. Please
note: you should have the SIXTH edition.(The book has a picture on its cover of sailboats). The cost
is approximately $187 new at the bookstore and $140 used.
The textbook (Financial Accounting 6th edition) can also be purchased for $168
directly from Wiley and Sons Publishing. To shop at Wiley for the book :
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470128844.html. The electronic edition of
the textbook (ebook) is available from the publisher for $109.50 at
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470475196.html.
Amazon also sells the book new ($139), as well as used ($115)
through their auction site. To shop at Amazon for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Accounting-Jerry-J-Weygandt/dp/0470128844/ref=sr_11_1?
ie=UTF8&qid=1218905452&sr=11-1. Amazon is having an amazing 30% off textbooks through
their online textbook store at http://www.amazon.com/New-Used-Textbooks-
Books/b/ref=sa_menu_tb0?ie=UTF8&node=465600&pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-
1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1Q4SFSGBF4P54TVM2Z5C
Half.com also sells the book at very reasonable prices ($116). Go to
http://www.half.ebay.com/textbooks and search by ISBN number. To to directly to the textbook on
that site go to http://product.half.ebay.com/Financial-Accounting-by-Donald-E-Kieso-Jerry-J-
Weygandt-Paul-D-Kimmel-2007_W0QQprZ61312881QQtgZinfo
See also the page on this website entitled, "Other Places to Buy Books
(Cheaper)."
International versions of the textbook have the same content, but are paperback, and much cheaper
($63). To purchase one go to Abebooks at http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?
bi=1154968125&searchurl=an%3DWeygandt%26kn%3D6th%2Bedition%26tn%3DFinancial%2BAccount
ing%26x%3D55%26y%3D12. Note: I am not aware if the problems at the end of the chapter are the
same. In the case they are different, please use the scan of the 6th edition problems at Visual Aids
and Chapter Outlines on this website.
You may also rent this book for a semester for approximately $63. Go to:
http://www.chegg.com/Details/0470128844/?s_id=MA==
Materials:
You should bring to each class:
1) pencils (mechanical or otherwise) with good erasers
2) a simple calculator
3) textbook
4) Working papers and transparencies that you printed out for class.
Both can be printed out from the class website. Note: You must have Excel
or the Excel viewer to print out the workpapers (See "Trouble with Downloading? Free Excel Viewer...
on this website. You can use the printers in the computer lab next to the Kentfield class to print
these documents. Also, the Internet Cafe in the Administrative Services building cluster on the Indian
Valley Campus may have printers available.
5) notebook
6) 3 folders - to turn in work. Plan on purchasing three distinctive folders
(that you can spot easily amidst 40 or so) that are cheap, soft-cover and
without rings, and label each one with your name and campus where you attend
this class.
