Accountants' Handbook, Volume 1: Financial Accounting and General Topics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471790389 ISBN 13: 9780471790389

Publisher: Wiley, 2007

Synopsis

This highly regarded reference is relied on by a considerable part of the accounting profession in their day-to-day work. This handbook is the first place many accountants look to find answers to practice questions. Its comprehensive scope is widely recognized and relied on. It is designed as a single reference source that provides answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting asked by accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information.

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From the Back Cover

The premier accounting reference, revised and expanded

The Accountants' Handbook series has the longest tradition of any reference of providing comprehensive coverage of the field to both accounting professionals and professionals in other fields who need or desire quick, understandable, and thorough exposure to complex accounting-related subjects. Like its predecessors, the Tenth Edition is designed as a single reference source that provides answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting asked by accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information. Written by nationally recognized accounting professionals, including partners in major public accounting firms, financial executives, financial analysts, and other relevant business professionals, the Handbook covers both financial accounting and reporting and industry specific accounting issues in separate volumes for easy reference. Its comprehensive content provides analysis on over 43 critical areas of accounting.

About the Author

D.R. Carmichael, PhD, CPA, CFE, holds the distinguished position, Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards of the Private Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). He is the author of numerous books and articles on accounting and auditing. Most prominent among his consulting clients have been the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.  He has appeared on major network segments, including ABC News, Nightline, and Moneyline, and is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Ray Whittington, Phd, CPA, CMA, CIA, is the editor of the Wiley CPA Review and several other professional books and textbooks. He is the Ledger & Quill Director of the School of Accountancy at DePaul University.

Lynford Graham is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 25 years of public accounting experience in audit practice and National policy development groups. He was a Partner and the Director of Audit Policy for BDO Seidman, LLP, and was a National Accounting & SEC Consulting Partner for Coopers & Lybrand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0471790389
• ISBN 13: 9780471790389
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1056
• Editor: Carmichael D. R., Whittington O. Ray, Graham Lynford