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Informationen zum Autor THOMAS A. KING is treasurer of Progressive Insurance, which is regarded as one of the most innovative companies in the insurance business. He grew up in Racine, Wisconsin, and studied liberal arts at Harvard College. King worked for three years on the New York audit staff of Arthur Andersen & Co., earned an MS in accounting from New York University, and obtained CPA and CMA certification. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he joined Progressive Insurance in Cleveland. King spent ten years in marketing and general management before returning to accounting. Since then, he has served as corporate controller, investment strategist, and treasurer. At Progressive, King helped craft financial policies that support business objectives and managed investor relations when the company became the first to report monthly financial results. Klappentext Praise for MORE THAN A NUMBERS GAME " More Than a Numbers Game is a revelatory history of how accounting conventions have shaped business reality, for good and ill." --Justin Fox, Editor at Large, Fortune > --Dennis R. Beresford, Ernst & Young Executive Professor of Accounting, The University of Georgia, and former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (1987-97) " More Than a Numbers Game is a must-read for accounting students looking for a supplement to traditional textbooks. It offers a business perspective to accounting, providing readers with a holistic overview of taxes, cost accounting, regulation, as well as more traditional financial reporting topics." --Philip A. Laskawy, retired chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young > --Louis M. Thompson Jr., President and CEO, National Investor Relations Institute > --Jeff Joerres, Chairman and CEO, Manpower Inc. > --John C. Bogle, founder, The Vanguard Group, and author, The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism Zusammenfassung In More Than a Numbers Game! practitioner and financial expert Tom King examines the key issues and events that have transformed accounting from a tool used by 19th century American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud during the 2002 telecom crash. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Cover ix Preface xi 1 Double-Entry 1 2 Railroads 13 3 Taxes 23 4 Costs 41 5 Disclosure 55 6 Standards 71 7 Science 89 8 Inflation 103 9 Volatility 115 10 Intangibles 131 11 Debt 145 12 Options 159 13 Earnings 171 14 SOX 187 15 Epilogue 207 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 235 About the Author 242 ...
