Systems Understanding Aid 7th Edition (2008)
Authors
Arens & Ward
ISBN# 978-0-912503-27-1
A comprehensive case problem to help students of auditing, systems, or financial accounting courses understand the role and importance of basic business documents, records and information flows in the accounting process.
Transaction sets with different levels of difficulty are available in the Instructor's Guide. Some transaction sets are easier and likely to be used in less advanced classes or where the professor is concerned mostly with students learning the accounting process. Other sets are more complex for use by professors who prefer a greater challenge for their students as they learn the accounting process.
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Estimated completion time:
Option A = 15-18 hours
The number of transactions is minimized (one or two from each transaction cycle, for a total of 19 transactions in the whole case).
Option B = 16-20 hours
There are more and a wider variety of transactions (30 total) to further reinforce financial accounting concepts.
Suggested Selling Price to Students: $52.00
Computerized Accounting
Using Peachtree by Sage
Complete Accounting
1st Edition (2008)
Authors
Arens & Ward
ISBN# 978-0-912503-30-1
Computerized accounting practice set, including and using a full operational version of Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2008 (commercially available accounting software for smaller companies).
Early chapters provide installation, familiarization and practice and are followed by a case project of recording transactions and adjustments and performing month-end and year-end closing procedures. Final chapters include new company setup, access internal controls, job costing procedures and time and billing procedures.
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Estimated completion time: 20-25 hours, with options for the Instructor to reduce time required.
Suggested Selling Price to Students: $69.00
Computerized Accounting Using
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 4th Edition (2008)
Authors
Arens & Ward
ISBN# 978-0-912503-28-8
Computerized accounting practice set, including and utilizing a full operational version of Microsoft Dynamics GP, Version 10.0 (commercially available accounting software for mid-sized companies).
Early chapters provide installation, familiarization and practice. These are followed by the case project of recording transactions and adjustments and performing month-end and year-end closing procedures. Final chapters include internal controls, new company setup and advanced features, including use in a large company.
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Estimated completion time: 20-25 hours, with options for the Instructor to reduce time required.
Suggested Selling Price to Students: $69.00
Computerized Auditing Using ACL, 2nd Edition (2008)
Authors
Arens & Elder
ISBN# 978-0-912503-29-5
Computerized audit practice set, including and using an education version that is a fully operational version of ACL. It is the same as the commercially available ACL software except for the file capacity of each company.
The objective of these materials is to help students with an interest in auditing learn how to apply ACL audit software to solve audit problems. The materials are designed to first help students learn how to use ACL and then use the software on increasingly complex problems.
Early chapters provide installation, familiarization and practice and are followed by four chapters of assignment and cases that require students to apply ACL. The first three of these later chapters are organized like most auditing texts: planning the audit, tests of transactions and tests of balances. The fourth is about forensic auditing.
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Estimated completion time: 20-30 hours, with options for the Instructor to reduce time required.
Suggested Selling Price to Students: $69.00
Computerized Managerial Accounting Projects
Using Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics 1st Edition (2002)
Author
Stacy E. Kovar
ISBN# 978-0-912503-19-6
A computerized managerial accounting practice set that includes and uses a full operating version of Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics, Version 6.0 (commercially available accounting software for mid-size companies).
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Estimated completion time: Students need about 20 hours to complete all projects if none are omitted.
Suggested Selling Price to Students: $54.00
Integrated Audit Practice Case 4th Edition (2007)
Authors
Kerr, Elder, & Arens
ISBN# 978-0-912503-25-7
Recent changes in the CPA exam require students to be able to solve audit problems by applying knowledge from different sources. Completing the Integrated Audit Practice Case is ideal preparation for students to learn these skills. Students are required to use a wide variety of information to make audit decisions and integrate that information throughout an audit.
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Suggested Selling Price to Students: $57.00
Short Audit Case:
The Valley Publishing Company 10th Edition (2007)
Author
William J Morris Jr.
ISBN# 978-0-912503-26-4
The Short Audit Case is a simulated audit of the Valley Publishing Company, a small town newspaper. The case includes the typical audit procedures used for account balance testing, including a variety of analytical procedures, and the preparation of financial statements with footnotes from the audit work papers. Each of the 10 weekly assignments includes challenging situations for the students. For the most part, the work has been preplanned. A computer disk is included, with the trial balance and work papers for each assignment.
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Estimated completion time: 30-40 hours, with options for the Instructor to reduce time required.
Suggested Selling Price to Students: $57.00
