Financial Accounting, Reporting, and Analysis - Softcover

Maynard, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199606056 ISBN 13: 9780199606054

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Are you looking for a fresh, engaging, decision-usefulness approach to financial reporting that encourages students to develop their interpretative skills?

In this brand new financial accounting and reporting textbook, a 'how, why, what' approach is interwoven in each chapter. From chapter one, students understand how financial information is prepared and presented, why it is prepared and presented in this way, and what the resulting financial information means for users. Designed for students going to the next stage beyond their introductory financial accounting training, the textbook equips students with all the key tools they will require when they enter professional practice.

Reflective of current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS), this textbook delivers concise, clear explanations of all the key issues in accounting standards that students need to know. Content maps to professional accounting body syllabi, making this the perfect choice for accounting courses which offer exemptions.

Chapters are jam-packed with 3 types of examples to enhance understanding:
- Illustrative examples of real-world situations;
- Worked examples demonstrating the calculation of figures required for financial statements;
- Extracts from company annual reports demonstrate how the theory relates to financial reporting in practice.

More engaging, more balanced, and more affordable than other offerings, this is exactly the textbook your financial reporting students need!

An extensive Online Resource Centre accompanies the textbook and includes:

For students:

DT Solutions to all the end-of-chapter questions in the book including visual walkthrough of solutions to key questions;
DT Additional graded questions including professional body questions;
DT Additional interpretative case studies based on real-life companies;
DT A guided tour through a company report
DT Specific study skills tips for accounting students

For lecturers:

DT Customisable PowerPoint slides
DT Solutions to all the additional online questions
DT Outline solutions to the interpretative case studies
DT Group discussion questions

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Maynard, BSc, ACA, is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick, where she teaches financial accounting and reporting at undergraduate level. This followed many years of teaching at Coventry University and international accounting firm experience. She also carries out external work for the ICAEW.

Review

"This textbook offers something that up until now was missing from the teaching of accounting. It is hard (if not impossible) to find a book so strong on interpretation, so pedagogical, and so engaging."

--Ifigenia Georgiou, Lecturer, Aston University

"This book should be a core text on any self-respecting accounting degree programme. I haven't yet found a mid-level financial accounting book written with such clarity and appeal to discerning students. I welcome the publication of this book."

--Penny Young, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, University of Bolton

"The chapters provide a good balance between 'interpretation' and the 'technical' issues for an undergraduate level 2 financial accounting module, covering the important concepts using easy to understand examples and illustrations."

--Jing Li, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Bradford University

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199606056
• ISBN 13: 9780199606054
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 744