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Are you looking for an engaging, decision-focussed approach to financial reporting that encourages students to develop their interpretative skills?
Building on the success of the first edition, this textbook takes a 'how, why, what' approach to financial accounting, interwoven in each chapter. From chapter one, students understand how financial information is prepared and presented, why it is prepared and presented in this way, and what the resulting financial information means for users. Designed for students taking a step beyond their introductory financial accounting training, the textbook equips them with all the key tools they will require when they enter professional practice.
Reflective of the latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS), this textbook delivers concise, clear explanations of all the key issues in accounting standards that students need to know. Content maps to professional accounting body syllabi, making this the perfect choice for accounting courses which offer exemptions.
Chapters are rich with 3 types of examples to enhance understanding:
- Illustrative examples of real-world situations;
- Worked examples demonstrating the calculation of figures required for financial statements;
- Extracts from company annual reports demonstrate how the theory relates to financial reporting in practice.
More engaging, more balanced, and more applied than other offerings, this is exactly the textbook your financial reporting students need!
Extensive online resources accompany the textbook and include:
For students:
· Solutions to all the end-of-chapter questions in the book including walkthroughs of solutions to key questions;
· Additional graded questions including professional body questions;
· Additional interpretative case studies based on real-life companies;
· A guided tour through a company report
· Specific study skills tips for accounting students
For lecturers:
· Customisable PowerPoint slides
· Solutions to all the additional online questions
· Outline solutions to the interpretative case studies
· Group discussion questions
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Financial reporting and accounting
- Financial reporting in context
- 2: The financial reporting system
- 3: Corporate governance, sustainability, and ethics
- 4: Published financial statements of companies
- 5: Techniques for the interpretation of financial statements
- Income statement reporting issues
- 6: Reporting performance
- 7: Revenue from contracts with customers
- 8: Earnings per share
- 9: Taxation
- Statement of financial position reporting issues
- 10: Property, plant, equipment, and impairment
- 11: Intangible assets
- 12: Inventories
- 13: Liabilities
- 14: Financial instruments
- 15: Leases
- 16: Employee benefits and share based payments
- Consolidated financial statements
- 17: Subsidiaries
- 18: Associates, joint arrangements, and statements of cash flow
- 19: Interpretation of financial statements revisited
About the author
Jennifer Maynard, BSc, ACA, is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick, where she teaches financial accounting and reporting at undergraduate level. This follows many years of teaching at Coventry University and international accounting firm experience. She also carries out external work for the ICAEW.
Summary
Offering both technical and interpretative content, this is the only truly balanced financial accounting textbook to provide students not only with the 'how' and 'why' of financial information, but also guidance on what this means in practice.
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'An excellent reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate level students who want to understand the mechanics of preparing financial statements under the IFRS. It makes technical accounting information easy to understand.'
Report
'A very engaging book with worked examples in each chapter and excelleng online resources to support students' learning. It offers a fresh approach to teaching accounting and achieves the perfect balance between the theoretical foundations and interpretation of financial statements.' Didem Gundogdu, Lecturer in Accounting, Queen Mary University of London
