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Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: Principles and Analysis continues to be an invaluable resource for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of introductory financial accounting. Comprehensive and well-illustrated, it covers all the important topics without being too technical and takes a truly international approach. Using extracts from the latest IFRS Standards and real company report data, this book takes a global approach, giving students direct exposure to contemporary reports and financial statements.
List of contents
Part 1 The accounting and business environment
1 Financial reporting and regulation
2 Accounting and accountants
Part 2 Basic financial statements
3 Accounting concepts and the balance sheet equation
4 Accrual accounting
5 Non-current assets and depreciation
6 Refining the accounting system
7 Preparing financial statements
Part 3 An introduction to financial statement analysis
8 A framework for interpretation
9 Financial statement analysis I
10 Statement of cash flows
Part 4 The financial statements of multinational companies
11 The annual report
12 Consolidated financial statements
13 Operating segments and foreign operations
14 Issues in financial reporting by multinationals
15 International taxation
16 Auditing and corporate governance
Part 5 Advanced financial statement analysis
17 Financial statement analysis II
18 IFRS and the future
Further reading
Index
About the author
Walter Aerts is Professor of Financial Reporting at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Management School, and Tilburg University. He has taught IFRS Standards for several years after a career as a financial controller in the utility sector. He has taught in several European and East Asian countries.Peter Walton is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at The Open University and at the ESSEC Business School. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant and worked for British and French multinationals before becoming a researcher and journalist. He has taught in France, Switzerland, the USA and the UK.
Summary
Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: Principles and Analysis continues to be an invaluable resource for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of introductory financial accounting. Comprehensive and well-illustrated, it covers all the important topics without being too technical and takes a truly international approach. Using extracts from the latest IFRS Standards and real company report data, this book takes a global approach, giving students direct exposure to contemporary reports and financial statements.
