Financial Accounting & Reporting - Softcover

Elliot, Barry; Elliot, Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273703641 ISBN 13: 9780273703648

Publisher: Ft Pr, 2006

Synopsis

This market-leading text offers a comprehensive overview of financial accounting and reporting. With annual updates, Financial Accounting and Reporting features completely up-to-date coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS).

You will find worked examples and useful illustrations throughout the text to support your learning. With both theoretical and practical coverage, the authors provide the essential knowledge that you need to advance in your studies and career.

The text is supported by MyAccountingLab (www.myaccountinglab.com), an online tutorial and assessment solution. With more than 300,000 registered students in 2010 doing four million assignments, MyAccountingLab is the most effective and reliable learning solution for accounting available today.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ft Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273703641
• ISBN 13: 9780273703648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 891