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.