Short stories from people across America about their pets and how they have changed their lives.

This newtext is intended as a companion volume to the existing Wiley title Financial Reporting and Analy sis by John Dunn, published in Jan 2010. Advanced Financial Reporting and Analysis will complement the existing book by offering the opportunity to continue into the third year with a similar approach, but will also stand alone as a book that could be adopted without having used the earlier volume.

Just five years after welcoming her beloved father home from the Second World War Louise Miller is married and whisked off to the outback. The whole world is in a state of transition with women gaining independence and old social standards being replaced. Australian ingenuity seems to be overcoming the tyranny of distance. In these years, post war optimism collides with harsh conditions in the bush... it's up to Louise and her husband John to make a life for themselves, in conditions where even the animals seem to survive by eating stones. Louise learns from the aboriginal people who occupied...