Microeconomics or Accounting Information Systems

Microeconomics

Author: Stephen L Slavin

Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive student-friendly, step-by-step approach, couple with its low price and built-in Study Guide are very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text is interactive and encourages active learning.With the help of over 15 reviewers, this new edition is not only more streamlined and up-to-date but it also introduces global perspectives to many discussions early on and throughout the text. The author discusses the impact of technology and e-business on the recent economic expansion. A new interior design reflects the contemporary flavor that this traditional text now possesses.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: What Is Economics All About, How Do We Use This Book, and Why Is This Book Different from All Other Introductory Economics Textbooks?
1	A Brief Economic History of the United States	3
2	Resource Utilization	25
3	Supply and Demand	49
4	The Mixed Economy	59
5	Applications in Supply and Demand	81
6	Demand	105
7	Utility and Consumer Surplus	131
8	Supply	143
9	Cost and Profit	157
10	Supply in the Short Run and the Long Run	179
11	Perfect Competition	195
12	Monopoly	213
13	Monopolistic Competition	235
14	Oligopoly	249
15	The Four Types of Competition: A Review	273
16	Corporate Mergers and Antitrust	285
17	Demand in the Factor Market	303
18	Labor Unions	325
19	Labor Markets and Wage Rates	345
20	Rent, Interest, and Profit	369
21	Income Distribution and Poverty	393
22	International Trade	425
23	International Finance	459
	Glossary	479
	Index	485

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Accounting Information Systems

Author: George Bodnar

This interesting, extremely useful book stresses information, communication, and networking technology within the realm of business processes and internal control structure. Its brief yet comprehensive coverage has been updated to include all of the latest AIS topics, such as: electronic commerce, electronic security, web commerce, internet security, network security, statistical sampling and artificial intelligence, EDI, databases, and encryption. The new focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) allows for more precise planning, forecasting, and monitoring. Advances in Business Engineering and Blueprinting and new discussions on SAP are also highlighted. For those involved in the planning, set-up, implementation, and monitoring of accounting information systems.

Booknews

The new edition of this standard text for undergraduate or graduate level courses emphasizes information, communication, and networking technology applied within the context of transaction cycles and internal control structures. Topics include: systems techniques and documentation, the internet, intranets, electronic commerce, transaction processing, computer and information systems security, distributed information systems, electronic data processing systems, systems development, and systems implementation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

New edition of a time-tested text suitable for first courses in business processes or accounting information systems at either the undergraduate or graduate levels. Emphasis is on information, communication, and electronic commerce within the context of business processes, transaction cycles, and internal control processes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)