Financial Accounting and Reporting - Hardcover

Elliott, Barry; Elliott, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133577333 ISBN 13: 9780133577334

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1996

Synopsis

The focus of this text is the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of financial accounting and reporting, and their practical application and limitations. It provides a framework for understanding and evaluating the tensions between theory and practice. This edition has been updated for regulatory changes, and includes material new to this edition, and improved teaching, learning and assessment features.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Financial Accounting and Reporting is the most up to date text on the market. Now fully updated in its fourteenth edition, it includes extensive coverage of International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

This market-leading text offers students a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject. Supported by illustrations and exercises, the book provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage. Students using this book will gain the knowledge and skills to help them apply current standards, and critically appraise the underlying concepts and financial reporting methods.

Financial Accounting and Reporting offers:

• Academic rigour combined with an engaging and accessible style
• Coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Illustrations taken from real published accounts
• An excellent range of review questions
• Extensive references
• A section on the analysis of accounts
• Chapters covering such issues as corporate governance, ethics and sustainability: environmental and social reporting

New for this edition: 

• Fully updated to May 2010
• Updated coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards
• More examples of extracts from real financial reports
• New, additional questions and exercises in selected chapters

Substantial revisions to:

• Published financial statements
• Regulatory and conceptual frameworks
• Analysis of accounts
• Corporate governance
• Ethical behaviour and the implication for accountants

Financial Accounting and Reporting comes with MyAccountingLab, a state of the art online learning resource that gives students access to:

• A personalised study plan that highlights where you excel and where you need to improve so you can study more efficiently
• Practice problems with hundreds of different variables which allow you to practise over and over again with no repetition

Visit www.myaccountinglab.com to utilise these online resources. For more information on how to register see inside the book. 

Barry Elliott is a training consultant. He has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. He has wide experience as an external examiner both in higher education and at all levels of professional education.

Jamie Elliott is a Director with Deloitte & Touche. Prior to this he has lectured at university on undergraduate degree programmes and as an assistant professor on MBA and Executive programmes at the London Business School.

About the Author:

Barry Elliott is a training consultant. He has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. He has wide experience as an external examiner both in higher education and at all levels of professional education.Jamie Elliott is a Director with Deloitte & Touche. Prior to this he has lectured at university on undergraduate degree programmes and as an assistant professor on MBA and Executive programmes at the London Business School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0133577333
• ISBN 13: 9780133577334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 816