Financial Reporting for Managers: A Value-Creation Perspective

Pratt, Jamie; Hirst, D. Eric

ISBN 10: 0471457493 / ISBN 13: 9780471457497

Published by Wiley, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Financial Reporting for Managers: A Value-Creation Perspective
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471457493
• ISBN 13: 9780471457497
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This brief textbook is designed for business students and managers, with little prior exposure to financial reporting, who wish to understand how financial statements can help them - and encourage others - to make decisions in the long run interest of the firm’s shareholders. 

Pratt/Hirst, Financial Reporting for Managers is targeted at thoughtful business students and managers, wishing to learn how financial statement use and analysis can be a path to business success. The text brings together financial reporting and management decision making in a thoughtful, creative and easy to understand manner. Additionally, this text links shareholder value creation and the financial accounting statements to the market value of the firm in a way that can be easily understood by practitioners.

About the Author

Jamie Pratt is Professor of Accounting at Indiana University, and has taught both around the U.S. and internationally. In 1993, he was the program chair for the American Accounting Association. He has been on the Educational Advisory Committee since 1990, and has also been the secretary of the board for the Pratt Corporation for 17 years. He has published extensively in research journals and has penned several texts.

D. Eric Hurst is Associate Dean and Professor in the Department of Accounting at the Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. His research has been published in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.