Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: Principles and Analysis. Peter Walton and Walter Aerts

Peter J. Walton

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9781408062869: Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: Principles and Analysis. Peter Walton and Walter Aerts

ISBN 10: 1408062860 ISBN 13: 9781408062869

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2013

This title is a European-focused introductory financial accounting textbook for students encountering the subject for the first time at MBA and Masters level

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About the Author:

Walter Aerts is Professor of Financial Reporting at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Management School and Tilburg University. He has taught IFRS for several years after a career as a financial controller in the utility sector. He has taught in several European and East Asian countries. Peter Walton is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the Open University, UK. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant and worked for British and French multinationals before becoming a researcher and journalist. He has taught in France, Switzerland, the USA and the UK.

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Part 1. THE ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. 1. Financial reporting and regulation. 2. Accounting and accountants. Part 2. BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. 3. Measurement concepts and the balance sheet equation. 4. Accruals accounting. 5. Non-current assets and depreciation. 6. Refining the accounting system. 7. Preparing financial statements. Part 3. AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS 8. A framework for interpretation. 9. Financial statement analysis I. 10. Statement of Cash Flows. Part 4. THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES. 11. The annual report. 12. Group financial statements. 13. Foreign operations. 14. Issues in financial reporting by multinationals. 15. International taxation. 16. Auditing and corporate governance. Part 5. ADVANCED FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS. 17. Financial statement analysis II. 18. IFRS and the future. Glossary. References. Index.

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