Comparative International Accounting - Softcover

Nobes, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137364636 ISBN 13: 9780137364633

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

Comparative International Accounting 5th edition comprehensively examines the international dimensions of financial accounting and reporting. Teacher's Manual (0-13-736471-7).

About this title

From the Publisher:

In this edition, the text has been up-dated and restructured to reflect the development and changes since the third edition appeared in 1991, both in regulation and teaching of the subject internationally. It remains an authoritative, popular and accessible examination of the context and issues of comparative International accounting, as well as on the financial reporting in individual countries.

From the Back Cover:

Now firmly established as the leading text in the field, Comparative International Accounting takes a comprehensive look at the international dimensions of financial accounting and reporting. The book, which includes contributions from a diverse group of international practitioners and academics, has been carefully shaped into a coherent whole. This ninth edition has been extensively rewritten and fully updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field, especially the adoption of international standards in many countries.

Features

• Broad overviews supported by detailed information on real countries and companies;

• Across-the-board comparisons of major topics;

• Examination of the requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards and of US GAAP;

• Studies of accounting in Japan and China.

New to this edition

• Six brand new chapters have been added, including chapters on the regulation of accounting and the politics of standard setting;

• Separate consideration of group accounting by listed companies and of individual company accounting under domestic rules;

• More coverage of the impact of accounting differences on capital markets and on analysis;

Instructors’ resources include an expanded Suggested Answers section in the back of the book. Also, in addition to an Instructor’s Manual, unique PowerPoints for each chapter are now available online as well as links to real financial statements.

Comparative International Accounting is ideal for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels taking courses in comparative and international accounting.

 

Christopher Nobes is PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting at the University of Reading, UK. From 1993 to 2001 he was a representative on the board of the International Accounting Standards Committee.

Robert Parker is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Exeter, UK. He was formerly editor of the journal Accounting and Business Research.

Both authors have received the American Accounting Association’s award of ‘outstanding international accounting educator’.

Additional student support at www.pearsoned.co.uk/nobes

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0137364636
• ISBN 13: 9780137364633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 541
• Editor: Parker R. H.