Governmental Accounting Made Easy

By Warren Ruppel

Book Overview

A hands-on guide to the ins and outs of governmental accounting--made easy

Governmental Accounting Made Easy, Second Edition equips you with the tools you need to run the financial and accounting operations within your organization. This complete and straightforward manual covers a broad range of governmental accounting topics that fall under the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, and its recently revised financial reporting model.

Boiling down the complicated details of governmental accounting into manageable essentials, author Warren Ruppel, a leading authority on governmental accounting, offers practical information in easy-to-understand terminology. Even if you do not have a professional understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting, the Second Edition makes it all clear with accounting rules explained in terms anyone can understand, to help you better fulfill your managerial and fiduciary duties.

Always practical and never over-technical, this helpful guide: Discusses basic accounting terminology Clearly explains fund accounting Covers the nuts and bolts of governmental financial statements Equips you to understand the reporting entity Discusses revenues from non-exchange transactions Helps you become conversant in various accounting topics

The recently adopted reporting model for governments resulted in a radical change in the way governmental financial statements are presented. Suitable for professional managers, budget preparers, school boards, city councils, state legislators, and comptrollers, Governmental Accounting Made Easy, Second Edition is your essential guide for a clear, concise, understandable explanation of government finances.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470411503
• ISBN13: 9780470411506
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book

It is an excellent book. Very well written. Explains the subjec in a so simple way that even a regualr person who doesn't have an accounting background would still understand.

Good book

Very informative. I would like to have seen a little more elaboration on a few concepts/topics, but overall a very good book for its purpose.

Good supplement to a text book

I bought this book to help me study for a Governmental Accounting class final. I wish I had the book the entire semester. It's a well written, concise book that boils down the intricate details of governmental accounting that is presented in text books into the more manageable and understandable essentials. It must have helped, because I ended up receiving an "A" in the course.