Accounting and Auditing Research and Databases: Practitioner's Desk Reference - Hardcover

Weirich, Thomas R.; Churyk, Natalie Tatiana; Pearson, Thomas C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118334426 ISBN 13: 9781118334423

Publisher: Wiley, 2012

Synopsis

The easy-to-use, do-it-yourself desk accounting and auditing research database

FASB's online GAAP Codification system. The convergence of U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. EDGAR filing and research system. RIA Checkpoint and CCH. Accounting professionals and practitioners need to understand these research databases to reach solutions and achieve maximum results for the organization. Highlighting each pertinent database, Accounting and Auditing Research Databases shows you how to conduct research using a host of databases including RIA, CCH, AICPA's Online Library, FASB Codification, GARS, and eIFRS.

• Highlights each specific database
• Step-by-step guidance to research resources
• Explains how to conduct research using databases including AICPA's Online Library, FASB Codification, and eIFRS
• Enables you to understand accounting and auditing research to reach solutions

Accounting and Auditing Research & Databases: A Practitioner's Desk Reference focuses on the practical aspects of professional accounting and auditing research with step-by-step guidance to research resources to provide you with the skills you need to improve within your organization.

About this title

About the Author

THOMAS R. WEIRICH, PHD, CPA, is the Jerry and Felicia Campbell Endowed Professor of Accounting at Central Michigan University and former chair of its School of Accounting. He has served in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; as a consultant to the Public Oversight Board’s Panel on Audit Effectiveness; and as an expert witness for the SEC and several other organizations. He has written numerous articles in professional journals.

NATALIE TATIANA CHURYK, PHD, CPA, is the Caterpillar Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. She is a contributor to the annual Wiley CPA Exam Review: Financial Accounting and Reporting and Wiley Focus Notes: Financial Accounting and Reporting. A frequent contributor to academic and professional journals, Dr. Churyk has received research grants from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Institute of Management Accountants.

THOMAS C. PEARSON, LLM, JD, MBA, CPA, is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and former director of its School of Accountancy. Pearson has published a number of articles in professional and leading academic accounting journals and has won numerous teaching awards.

From the Back Cover

Answering the need for an accessible, hands-on reference book, Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases: Practitioner’s Desk Reference provides CPAs, accountants, and finance professionals with an invaluable guide to practical, professional research.

Written by an esteemed team of accounting professors and CPAs, Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases provides professionals with the tools to effectively and efficiently research auditing methodologies and databases. Highlighting online databases, supplemented with information on essential tools for research and analysis, this handy desk reference enables practitioners/researchers to discover justifiable authoritative solutions to accounting or auditing problems.

Featuring extensive discussions of the FASB and IASB structures, including the advisory boards, detailed research methods for the Codification and eIFRS, tax research sources, and types of audits, Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases examines:

• A complete overview of the research process
• Financial research in the United States through the impact of the FASB and SEC
• International research through the IASB
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) research
• Researching industries and companies
• Tax research for compliance and tax planning
• Original jurisdiction courts
• Steps in conducting tax research
• Assurance and auditing research
• A search example utilizing the SEC’s Edgar database
• SEC accounting for public companies
• The Levels of U.S. GAAP and FASB Accounting Standards Codification^™
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

From the Inside Flap

Answering the need for an accessible, hands-on reference book, Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases: Practitioner's Desk Reference provides CPAs, accountants, and finance professionals with an invaluable guide to practical, professional research.

Written by an esteemed team of accounting professors and CPAs, Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases provides professionals with the tools to effectively and efficiently research auditing methodologies and databases. Highlighting online databases, supplemented with information on essential tools for research and analysis, this handy desk reference enables practitioners/researchers to discover justifiable authoritative solutions to accounting or auditing problems.

Featuring extensive discussions of the FASB and IASB structures, including the advisory boards, detailed research methods for the Codification and eIFRS, tax research sources, and types of audits, Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases examines:

• A complete overview of the research process
• Financial research in the United States through the impact of the FASB and SEC
• International research through the IASB
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) research
• Researching industries and companies
• Tax research for compliance and tax planning
• Original jurisdiction courts
• Steps in conducting tax research
• Assurance and auditing research
• A search example utilizing the SEC's Edgar database
• SEC accounting for public companies
• The Levels of U.S. GAAP and FASB Accounting Standards CodificationTM
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118334426
• ISBN 13: 9781118334423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272