The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS - Softcover

Bragg, Steven M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470619473 ISBN 13: 9780470619476

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

Presenting a question-and-answer format for the most common accounting problems arising from specific IFRS topics, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage of all International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

This reliable reference tool goes anywhere you go---to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting, with on-the-spot answers to questions such as: Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for understanding the day-to-day IFRS issues every accountant, controller, or CFO is sure to face, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now, in the quick-reference format you need.

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About the Author

STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over thirty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.

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Get quick answers to all your IFRS questions

Presenting a question-and-answer format for the most common accounting problems arising from specific IFRS topics, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage of all International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

This reliable reference tool goes anywhere you go―to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting, with on-the-spot answers to questions such as:

• What are the thresholds for segment reporting?
• How do I restate financial results in a hyperinflationary economy?
• How do I recognize intangible assets?
• What is a provision, and when do I recognize it?
• How do I account for a business combination?
• How do I determine an entity's functional currency, and how do I report transactions in that currency?
• And much more!

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for understanding the day-to-day IFRS issues every accountant, controller, or CFO is sure to face, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now, in the quick-reference format you need.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470619473
• ISBN 13: 9780470619476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416