Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Accounting - Managerial

• What is the importance of Sections 302 and 404?
• "Implementing" SOX using COSO and COBIT
• SOX's impact on foreign companies andnonprofits
• Achieving cost-effective sustainable compliance
• The evolving role of the SEC and the PCAOB

Praise for ESSENTIALS OF SARBANES-OXLEY

"Since its enactment in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its Section 404 internal control requirements have caused many a great deal of 'pain and suffering ' With its emphasis on what Sanjay Anand frequently reminds us is the 'real world, ' this book should...

This must-have reference covers all of the major areas of cost accounting and analysis including product costing, relevant costs, cost-volume analysis, performance evaluation, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting.

• Includes methods of reorganizing, classifying, allocating, aggregating, and reporting actual costs and comparing them with standard costs.
• Equips experienced cost accountants with a reference tool and students with a thorough textbook.
• Provides numerous examples, succinct language, chapter review, glossary, and appendices.
• Includes an abundance...

Praise for Directory of Global Professional Accounting and Business Certifications

"In a globalized world, employers are confronted by a bewildering variety of professional qualifications, some valid, some less weighty and some spurious and fraudulent. This excellent compilation enables the reader to touch base with such organizations and explore their true credentials through access to their whereabouts including Web sites. It is additionally pleasing that updates will be provided via the publisher's own Web site."
--Professor Dr. Gerald Vinten Deputy Principal, Thames...

If where an organization allocates its resources determines its strategy, why is it that so few companies actively manage the resource allocation process? "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy" goes beyond platitudes about why you should use corporate portfolio management (CPM) by offering a practical methodology to bring this powerful discipline to your organization.

"Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management" takes an expansive view of where CPM can be utilized by demonstrating that it can be used across any business line,...

Praise for Fraud Casebook Lessons from the Bad Side of Business

"I have known Mr. Wells for over twenty years. In my opinion, no one in the world knows more about fraud than he does."
-W. Steve Albrecht, Associate Dean, Marriott School of ManagementBrigham Young University, Provo, Utah

"This book covers the entire range of fraud that can be encountered in the workplace."
-Grant D. Ashley, Vice President for Corporate Security and SurveillanceHarrah's Entertainment Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada

"I had the pleasure of serving with Mr. Wells when both...

Now in a fifth edition, Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual: A Blueprint for Running an Effective and Efficient Department is a how-to guide on creating an effective and efficient accounting department policies and procedures manual.

Written by Steven Bragg, the foremost authority in accounting and controllership issues, the new edition includes:

• A new, complimentary Web site providing readers with the foundation for creating or enhancing their accounting department policies and procedures manual
• More coverage of accounting procedures including...

New costing procedures for a new economic age

Increasing global competition is causing upheaval in every area of industry and commerce. An explosion in the use of advanced technologies is continuing to fundamentally revolutionize the way we go about doing business. These factors are in turn driving dramatic reductions in product life cycles (the average product life cycle is now well under five years) and exerting tremendous pressure on profit margins. The effect has been to substantially change cost structures with their traditional focus on direct labor and arbitrary allocation...

ESSENTIALS OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in accounts payable.

"A real-world approach, with great insights and practical wisdom on all aspects of the accounts payable process. Essentials of Accounts Payable provides accounts payable professionals with a framework for action in a rapidly changing environment."
-Tom Nichols, Division Manager,...

Control Self-Assessment is a powerful audit and consulting tool that can be organized to protect against Business Risks or used as the central tool in a Business Process Analysis. In this first comprehensive introduction to CSA methodology, Richard Tritter explains how to successfully use CSA sessions to get a realistic look at the machinery of your business with information known to its day-to-day operational staff. He goes on to show you how to use this information to develop an action plan that will be enthusiastically put into practice. Control Self-Assessment is a must for any firm in...

Dramatically improve inventory accuracy with bestselling author Steven Bragg's step-by-step guidelines

Inventory Accounting is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to setting up an inventory accounting system and keeping it running at maximum efficiency. This hands-on book provides accounting professionals with essential information on how to:
* Set up an accounting system that efficiently handles accumulating inventory costs, summarizing accounts, and standard journal entries used to record transactions
* Use best practices to increase the efficiency of...

Everyone jokes about the 20/20 hindsight of cost management. In Life-Cycle Costing, Jan Emblemsvag proposes to do something about it.

Here's a new approach to life cycle costing that brings activity-based costing, risk, and uncertainty into the forefront. You'll focus on future costs and learn how you can perform any type of cost management activity better than before by introducing uncertainty into models and exploiting them to the max.

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Successful corporations are constantly improving their ability to accurately predict their future operations and their resource requirements. The budgeting and planning process is an important activity in this procedure. Budgeting provides an in-depth examination of modern budgeting and technology providing answers to such questions as what corporations should be looking for when buying or building a new budgeting solution for their company, how to evaluate and select budgeting software, and how to successfully implement a new budgeting solution.

A comprehensive guide to the world of mergers and acquisitions

Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that are consummated? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates of mergers and acquisitions, those pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. By addressing the key factors of M&A success and failure, Applied Mergers and...

The first complete guide to taking advantage of the huge and growing market for Internet accounting services for small businesses
The Internet provides accountants with exciting new opportunities for expanding their practices by affording them unprecedented access to the huge small business market. The first comprehensive book on the subject, this book describes proven strategies for creating a thriving virtual accounting practice. Expert Jack Fox presents in-depth coverage of the various accounting and consulting services that accountants can offer to small business owners via the...

Expert guidance on managing credit risk in bond portfolios
Managing Credit Risk in Corporate Bond Portfolios shows readers how to measure and manage the risks of a corporate bond portfolio against its benchmark. This comprehensive guide explores a wide range of topics surrounding credit risk and bond portfolios, including the similarities and differences between corporate and government bond portfolios, yield curve risk, default and credit migration risk, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, and portfolio selection methods.
Srichander Ramaswamy, PhD (Basel, Switzerland), is Head of...

The key to any successful business is the effective management of revenue, costs and of course profitability. This book provides golf course superintendents with the necessary tools to manage their daily financial operations by explaining basic accounting principles such as pricing, budgeting, cost control, payroll and cash flow. With chapters on financial statements, golf course operation schedules, breakeven analysis and operating budgets this is an invaluable tool for all owners, operators and managers of golf courses.
* The first edition has become the standard industry tool for...

A clear, concise explanation of United States tax law's international aspects

In tackling a sometimes thorny set of laws and treaties, international tax expert Ernest Larkins emphasizes their economic effects, showing how to avoid hazards while reaping rewards which often go ignored. Coverage includes:

• Special issues arising when a foreign person invests in U.S. real estate, as well as the best structures for holding such real estate
• What a controlled foreign corporation is and what consequences result from this status
• Acceptable transfer pricing...

Core Concepts of Financial Analysis: A User Approach takes a streamlined approach that focuses on fundamentals and leaves room for additional content. With Wiley's Business Extra Select program, Instructors can build on the core text by adding articles, cases, and readings from such leading business resources as INSEAD, Ivey and Harvard Business School Cases, Fortune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Instructors can select a pre-built Business Extra Select CoursePack, or create their own CoursePack from the thousands of articles and cases in the Business Extra Select...

As recent corporate scandals prove, corrupt companies can maintain a facade of financial success through manipulation and fraud almost to the day they file for bankruptcy. Fortunately, tools exists to detect aggressive earnings management. This timely book reviews the current environment, explains the tools that can be used to detect a manipulative financial environment, and introduces techniques for recasting financial information to get a truer economic picture. Brief cases reflecting a variety of companies provide a feel for evaluating public data and how earning management...

Real-world help for companies combating fraud - from major management fraud to fraudulent financial reporting

From the author's more than thirty years of corporate auditing experience, Corporate Fraud features scores of useful case studies that illustrate the principles of numerous types of fraud and how to avoid them in your business.

A must-have for all auditors, controllers, CFOs, and business managers, Corporate Fraud offers broad coverage of:

• The most common and damaging types of fraud in today's business environment
• The many facets of fraud,...