TEXTBOOK: Required reading - Financial Accounting, Weygandt, Kieso, Kimmel, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc.,Publishers - SEVENTH Edition, ISBN 978-0-470-477151. Please
note: you should have the SEVENTH edition. PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS 7th Edition TEXTBOOK NEW, if
you can help it. This is the last semester this edition will be used at the College - and it cannot be
sold back to the bookstore.
It is important that you purchase/rent your textbook in the first few weeks. If you order your book
online, and are waiting for the book to arrive, you can keep up by reading the scans of the first six
chapters on this website (See Visuals...).
You may also use the 6th edition of the above textbook although it is out-of date. You may also buy
the 8th edition that is brand new if you must have a new textbook. If you have the 6th or 8th
edition, you will note that all the classwork and homework problems at the back
of each chapter of those books are different than the 7th edition classwork and homework problems
we will be doing this semester. No worries! This website has a complete scan of the 7th edition
problems (See Workpapers) that you will need for this class. If you are using the 6th, rather than the
7th edition of the accounting textbook, then I want you to skip reading Chapter 7. Instead read
Chapter 8 for the upcoming class. There is no corresponding chapter in the 7th edition for the 6th
edition's chapter 7. All the chapter outlines, visuals, workpapers follow the 7th edition. Follow this:
Sixth Edition Chapter 7 - do not read
Sixth Edition Chapter 8 is Chapter 7 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 9 is Chapter 8 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 10 is Chapter 9 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 11 is Chapter 10 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 12 is Chapter 11 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 13 is Chapter 12 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 14 is Chapter 13 in the 7th edition
Sixth Edition Chapter 15 is Chapter 14 in the 7th edition
Note: If you need financial assistance to purchase the text, please call (before the semester begins)
Cecile Banks at the Financial Aid office at IVC (415)457-8811 x8118.
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 on the hours
and the book's availability. The College of Marin bookstore at Kentfield 8am-7pm Mon-Thurs. You
may order books online from the bookstore at this link: http://marin.bncollege.com. The cost to
purchase the textbook new is $215, used $167, to rent $94, and as an e-textbook $88.
The textbook (Financial Accounting 7th edition) can also be purchased for $201
directly from Wiley and Sons Publishing. To shop at Wiley for the book :
http://www.wiley.com.
Amazon.com also sells the 7th edition text new ($143-$171), as well as used ($136)
through their auction site.
Half.com also sells the 7th edition at very reasonable prices ($126).
You may also rent the 7th edition for a semester for approximately $66. Go to:
http://www.chegg.com.
You may consider obtaining an e-textbook (online textbook) of Weygandt, Jerry J., Financial
Accounting, 7th Edition, from Coursemart (approx $100). Go to:
http://www.coursesmart.com/givecoursesmartatry?xmlid=9780470477151&__instructor=2418882
See also the page on this website entitled, "Other Places to Buy Books
(Cheaper)."
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 visuals from this class website that you printed out to use in class
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.
