Preface for CPA Candidates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Optimizing Your Business Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Study Unit  1. Corporate Governance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
Study Unit  2. Microeconomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Study Unit  3. Macroeconomics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  99
Study Unit  4. Globalization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  135
Study Unit  5. Financial Risk Management  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  167
Study Unit  6. Forecasting Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Study Unit  7. Corporate Capital Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  217
Study Unit  8. Working Capital  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  245
Study Unit  9. Short-Term Financing and Capital Budgeting I  . . . . . . . . 275
Study Unit 10. Capital Budgeting II and Corporate Performance  . . . . . . . 299
Study Unit 11. IT Roles, Systems, and Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Study Unit 12. IT Software and Data Organization  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  347
Study Unit 13. IT Networks and Electronic Commerce  . . . . . . . . . . . .  375
Study Unit 14. IT Security  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  405
Study Unit 15. Strategic Planning and Budgeting Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 433
Study Unit 16. Budget Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Study Unit 17. Quality Considerations and Benchmarking . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Study Unit 18. Responsibility Accounting and Other Topics . . . . . . . . .  503
Study Unit 19. Costing Fundamentals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Study Unit 20. Costing Systems and Variance Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617