Professionalism and Accounting Rules
ISBN: 9780415285698 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modern history of accounting has been marked by the rapid escalation of a vast array of accounting standards and other technical rules. In spite of this enormous regulatory activity, sudden collapses and other associated financial reporting failures persist. In such a climate, audited financial statements are the most highly regulated of commodities but also the least reliable. This book investigates this issue from the perspective of accounting as a professional occupation. The author argues that the accounting profession is beset by an inferior and incomplete notion of quality in its...
The modern history of accounting has been marked by the rapid escalation of a vast array of accounting standards and other technical rules. In spite o...
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716,40 zł |
The Institute of Accounts
ISBN: 9780415288743 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A combination of driving book and road atlas, this is a practical guide to touring New Zealand by road. There are 50 colour maps covering all of New Zealand's best scenic driving routes, each accompanied by a guide to all of the touring highlights covered on the map. The author provides user-friendly information, such as: what to do and see when you are on the road, scenic spots, nature walks, where to eat and drink, distances and times, where the toilets are and where to buy petrol.
A combination of driving book and road atlas, this is a practical guide to touring New Zealand by road. There are 50 colour maps covering all of New Z...
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639,65 zł |
Mark to Market Accounting: 'True North' in Financial Reporting
ISBN: 9780415299558 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thought-provoking and immensely readable collection of articles, speeches and letters by Walter Schuetze, one of the world's most distinguished accounting practitioners, is a work for our time. In the wake of the largest surprise corporate failures and retrospective financial restatements in corporate history, Walter Schuetze and Peter Wolnizer (as editor) turn their attention to what they call the syndrome of 'Enronitis'. They contend that the unheralded collapse of companies such as Enron and WorldCom in the USA, and HIH Insurance in Australia, shows the failure of conventional...
This thought-provoking and immensely readable collection of articles, speeches and letters by Walter Schuetze, one of the world's most distinguished a...
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741,99 zł |
Accounting Theory : Essays by Carl Thomas Devine
ISBN: 9780415309882 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the outstanding accounting theoreticians of the twentieth century, Carl Thomas Devine exhibited a breadth and depth of knowledge few in the field of accounting have equaled. This book collects together eight previously unpublished essays on accounting theory written by Professor Devine.
Professor Devine passed away in 1998, prior to the significant scandals that have plagued accounting and business since the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen. Many of the essays collected here are particularly important given these events. The first three essays are devoted to ethics and provide... One of the outstanding accounting theoreticians of the twentieth century, Carl Thomas Devine exhibited a breadth and depth of knowledge few in the fie...
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665,24 zł |
Profitability, Accounting Theory and Methodology: The Selected Essays of Geoffrey Whittington
ISBN: 9780415376440 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharply insightful and extremely significant. He has made important contributions to the topics of inflation accounting, accounting theory and methodology and standard-setting, and he has conducted a number of valuable empirical studies. This remarkable collection pulls together essays and articles and encompasses his work on empirical studies based on company accounts, specification of empirical models, price change accounting, taxation and... An important scholar in the history of accounting, Geoffrey Whittington's numerous articles cover a broad spectrum of the field and are both sharpl... |
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869,93 zł |
Accounting Standards: True or False?
ISBN: 9780415377805 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under increasing scrutiny. Many of the accounting standards being imposed on the profession by regulators and standard-setting bodies are now attracting criticism from the business community and the accountancy profession itself. In this book, Anthony Rayman traces a fundamental flaw in the conventional academic wisdom back to the nineteenth century, and proposes an alternative conceptual framework. He argues that effective corporate... Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under... |
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741,99 zł |
Accounting Standards: True or False?
ISBN: 9780415377812 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under increasing scrutiny. Many of the accounting standards being imposed on the profession by regulators and standard-setting bodies are now attracting criticism from the business community and the accountancy profession itself. In this book, Anthony Rayman traces a fundamental flaw in the conventional academic wisdom back to the nineteenth century, and proposes an alternative conceptual framework. He argues that effective corporate... Following a spate of high-profile financial scandals (including Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat), the quality of financial information has come under... |
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306,98 zł |
A History of Auditing: The Changing Audit Process in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780415381697 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rise of the British accountancy profession from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and the world-wide success of its accountancy firms, were to a large extent based on the growth of the audit function. This book explores the history of the audit process in Britain, demonstrating that the characteristic features of the auditing industry are a diversity in practice based largely on the different types of clients the auditors serve. The book examines the innovation that was brought about by the staggering developments in information technology which have been seen over... The rise of the British accountancy profession from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and the world-wide success of its accountancy f... |
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716,40 zł |
Accounting, Accountants and Accountability: Poststructuralist Positions
ISBN: 9780415384506 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has precipitated a crisis in the accounting industry: the accounting representations relied upon for years can no longer be taken for granted. Here, Norman Macintosh argues that we now need to understand accounting in a different manner. Offering several different ways of looking at accounting and accountants, he draws upon the work of eminent thinkers such as Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Bahktin. In doing this, he... In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has pre... |
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250,69 zł |
Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting: A User-Oriented Approach
ISBN: 9780415702065 / Angielski / Twarda / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the collapse of Enron and other similar scandals, financial reporting and its relation to corporate governance has become a contentious issue. In this revealing book, author Paul Rosenfield involves the reader in exploring contemporary financial reporting and skilfully highlights the deficiencies in current methods. In doing so it provides a user-oriented guide to the salient issues which affect all aspects of financial accounting. Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting challenges the reader to critically think through the issues and arguments involved in the... With the collapse of Enron and other similar scandals, financial reporting and its relation to corporate governance has become a contentious issue.... |
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895,50 zł |
Contemporary Accounting Research: Synthesis and Critique
ISBN: 9780444510877 / Angielski / Twarda / 892 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To commemorate the millennium, the "Journal of Accounting and Economics" invited nine author-teams to write critical review papers on the major research areas in accounting. In addition, discussants were asked to write reviews of the critiques. The critiques and their reviews were presented at a conference sponsored by the Brattle Group and Irwin/McGraw-Hill in Rochester, NY in April 2000. The authors and discussants then had about ten months to revise their manuscripts before publication in volumes 31-32 of the "Journal of Accounting and Economics." The critiques and their reviews comprise a...
To commemorate the millennium, the "Journal of Accounting and Economics" invited nine author-teams to write critical review papers on the major resear...
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1015,85 zł |
More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting
ISBN: 9780470008737 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at...
The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial...
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150,77 zł |
Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance
ISBN: 9780470026816 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of the book is to give non-accounting students a basic ability and confidence to read and use financial accounting reports and statements within their business or financial specialties. Many employees in business today are expected to be conversant with reported accounting information as part of their regular job responsibilities. However, they often have little formal training in using such information. For example, in most Western countries, corporate directors and senior executives are legally responsible for the content and quality of publicly reported accounting statements, yet...
The aim of the book is to give non-accounting students a basic ability and confidence to read and use financial accounting reports and statements with...
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236,95 zł |
Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis
ISBN: 9780470047019 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.
Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition
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134,61 zł |
Internal Controls
ISBN: 9780470089484 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In the new age of philanthropy, donors expect charities to be models of accountability and transparency...Internal controls: Guidance for Private, Government, and Nonprofit Entities is a must read for CEOs and CFOs who want to gain a clear understanding of cost-effective ways to implement the controls necessary to protect their organizations." - Elizabeth Myatt, Chief Executive Officer, World Lung Foundation
"If you were looking for the silver bullet to understand and audit internal controls, you just found it. This book will prove invaluable in planning the audit internal... "In the new age of philanthropy, donors expect charities to be models of accountability and transparency...Internal controls: Guidance for Private, Go...
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511,72 zł |
Breakthrough It: Supercharging Organizational Value Through Technology
ISBN: 9780470124840 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlock the secret to creating maximum business value from technology
Filled with case studies from leading C-level executives to illustrate concepts discussed, Breakthrough IT is a revolutionary approach to reshaping the corporate information technology function. This innovative, step-by-step guide provides concrete methods every business can implement to yield maximum value and competitive advantage from their IT organization. Patrick Gray (Harrison, NY) is the founder and President of the Prevoyance Group, an IT strategy consultancy that combines project management... Unlock the secret to creating maximum business value from technology
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204,63 zł |
Futures: Fundamental Analysis
ISBN: 9780471020561 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual shows traders how to apply analytical techniques to actual price forecasting and trading in futures contracts. The author explains how to apply technical analysis methodology to fundamental data.
This manual shows traders how to apply analytical techniques to actual price forecasting and trading in futures contracts. The author explains how to ...
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517,86 zł |
Valuing Accounting Practices
ISBN: 9780471172246 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In-depth coverage of the valuation of accounting practices and of partial ownerships in those practices
Fundamental concepts and approaches related to accounting practices * Illustrative income approach valuation methods * Illustrative market approach valuation methods * Illustrative asset-based approach valuation methods * Preparing the overall accounting practice valuation synthesis and conclusion * Identification and quantification of accounting practice valuation discounts and premiums, and other special topics related to the valuation of... In-depth coverage of the valuation of accounting practices and of partial ownerships in those practices
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1104,23 zł |
Pricing Financial Instruments: The Finite Difference Method
ISBN: 9780471197607 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As financial modelling becomes more complicated and deeply dependent upon mathematics, computational finance has become an increasingly popular discipline. This book covers both theoretical and practical aspects, presenting a quantitative approach to risk management. It encompasses the algorithmic and numerical procedures that form the backbone of modern mathematical finance and the creation of financial products.
As financial modelling becomes more complicated and deeply dependent upon mathematics, computational finance has become an increasingly popular discip...
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538,65 zł |
ESOP Workbook: The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning
ISBN: 9780471220855 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forms, checklists, and step-by-step instructions for choosing and implementing an ESOP
Financial officers need to know how to compare an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) with other comparable plans and how to effectively present an ESOP proposal to corporate executives. ESOP Workbook: The Ultimate Instrument in Succession Planning is designed to help the corporate owner, financial officer, CPA, and attorney determine if an ESOP is appropriate for meeting a company's objectives and, if so, how to successfully implement a suitable ESOP. The Workbook's step-by-step... Forms, checklists, and step-by-step instructions for choosing and implementing an ESOP
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350,12 zł |