Introduction to Accounting

· Applied Finance
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294
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This text provides a terse introduction to the subject of financial-accounting.  It is aimed at students, entrepreneurs, early-career business professionals and career changers. The book is a required resource for Columbia University's "Introduction to Accounting and Finance" course (E2261).

About the author

Anthony Webster is a Lecturer in Finance at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he teaches Introduction to Accounting and Finance, Real Estate Finance, and Decision Models and Applications. He has also taught Decision Models at Columbia’s Graduate Business School and the Berkeley-Columbia joint MBA program. From 2010 through 2013, Columbia’s students awarded Mr. Webster their highest accolade -- “Golden Nugget Professor” status – at their instructor-evaluation website, CULPA.info.

In 2002, Mr. Webster founded West End Advisors, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm that provides investment management and financial planning services to individuals and institutional investors. He is currently president and senior portfolio manager at the company.

Mr. Webster is the author of two textbooks: Introduction to Accounting and Introduction to Business Finance. He has also written books on technology and construction economics, published extensively in leading technology journals, and served on the boards of high-growth companies and leading technical publications.

Mr. Webster holds an MBA from Columbia University's Business School, an MS in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University’s Engineering School, and a BS in Applied Science in Engineering from Rutgers University (summa cum laude). He is a registered investment advisor (CRD 4619426). 

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