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Find the latest accounting textbooks, eBooks and teaching resources — including financial and college accounting — to build your students’ understanding and learning experience.

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Financial Accounting

Give your students the understanding they need to be successful in financial accounting. Our financial accounting textbooks and CNOWv2 resources provide the instruction your students need to excel in their accounting studies and beyond.

Managerial Accounting

Help your students master the managerial skills needed to be a leader in the business world. Our managerial accounting textbooks and CNOWv2 resources help students apply accounting topics to real-world situations.

College Accounting

Prepare your college accounting students for success with textbooks and CNOWv2 resources that will help them apply college accounting concepts to situations outside of the classroom.

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— Jacob Webb, Accounting Department Chair at the Community College of Denver

CNOWv2 for teaching accounting

CNOWv2, our easy-to-use online platform, lets you customize your accounting classes to meet each student’s needs.

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5 accounting features of CNOWv2

Based on our conversations with hundreds of accounting instructors across the country, it’s clear that online learning needs have dramatically changed for both faculty and students.

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Build accounting skills through data analytics

Data analytics is a cornerstone for decision-making, strategic planning and target marketing in business. There’s also an ever-growing demand for data analytics in the accounting profession — so much so that it became part of the updated CPA exam in 2024.

Accounting activities support high achievers and those who are struggling

Accounting activities support high achievers and those who are struggling

Increase homework completion and test scores using CNOWv2 for accounting courses.

Frequently asked questions

Want to know more about CNOWv2, how it works with our accounting textbooks and how it can support you and your students in your accounting courses? Here are answers to the questions we get the most from instructors like you.

The intro to accounting course template offers ready-made assignments that have been constructed by subject matter experts and can be easily customized for your accounting courses. Watch this video for how to create a CNOWv2 course.

With Check My Work, students receive instant feedback on their answers. In addition, CNOWv2’s Show Me How videos walk students through ways to solve a similar but not identical activity and are linked to hundreds of questions.

CNOWv2’s adaptive study plan is a turn-key, gradable assignment that adapts to each accounting student’s unique needs and provides a remediation pathway to keep students progressing. CNOWv2’s Tell Me More offers assignments to help build students’ mastery of learning objectives by using a combination of videos and knowledge checks to motivate students and develop true understanding of concepts.

CNOWv2’s features include:

  • Excel online problems to seamlessly integrate Excel into the classroom and help students build hands-on spreadsheet skills for future business careers while learning valuable business concepts.
  • Excel data analytics skill builders to help students focus on large data sets, perform calculations and use pivot tables and functions to extract relevant information.
  • Tableau data analytics skill builders to engage students with algorithmic Tableau visualizations and extract insights from dashboards. With guided instructions and targeted questions, they can navigate simple accounting scenarios using online hints and feedback for optimal support.
  • Automated General Ledger problems to give students hands-on, real-world experience in recording transactions, making adjusting entries, closing accounts and generating financial

Yes, you can find a variety of CNOWv2 training guides, video tutorials, webinars and other helpful training resources and tools to make the most of your accounting course. Explore our CNOWv2 training resources.