Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis: A Global Perspective

Corporate Financial Reporting Analysis combines comprehensive coverage and a rigorous approach to modern financial reporting with a readable and accessible style. Merging traditional principles of corporate finance and accepted reporting practices with current models enable the reader to develop essential interpretation and analysis skills, while the emphasis on real-world practicality and methodology provides seamless coverage of both GAAP and IFRS requirements for enhanced global relevance.

Two decades of classroom testing among INSEAD MBA students has honed this text to provide the clearest, most comprehensive model for financial statement interpretation and analysis; a concise, logically organized pedagogical framework includes problems, discussion questions, and real-world case studies that illustrate applications and current practices, and in-depth examination of key topics clarifies complex concepts and builds professional intuition. With insightful coverage of revenue recognition, inventory accounting, receivables, long-term assets, M&A, income taxes, and other principle topics, this book provides both education and ongoing reference for MBA students.

S. David Young is Professor of Accounting and Control at INSEAD, based in Fontainebleau (France) and Singapore. He has been there since 1989. Professor Young holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and is both a Certified Public Accountant (USA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst. His primary areas of expertise are corporate financial reporting and value-based management, with works published in a wide variety of academic and professional journals, including several articles in the Harvard Business Review.

Jake Cohen is Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Masters' Programs at MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Law, where he has been since 2012. In his role, he oversees strategy for eight programs. From 2003 to 2011, Jake was an Affiliate Professor of Accounting and Control at INSEAD and was based in France and Singapore. He served as Director of the INSEAD-PricewaterhouseCoopers Research Center from 2004 to 2008 and as Dean of the MBA Program from 2008 to 2011.

Daniel Bens is a Professor at INSEAD, currently serving as the Chair of the Accounting and Control area. Previously, he was a faculty at the University of Arizona serving as Associate Dean of MBA programs. Prior to that he was a faculty at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business from 1999 to 2005.