Financial Accounting and Reporting: Eight Edition - Softcover

Elliott, Mr Barry; Elliott, Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273685406 ISBN 13: 9780273685401

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

Revised annually to reflect changes in accounting regulation, Financial Accounting & Reporting has become a leading text in the field. This fully-updated 8th edition continues to provide students with a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject, combining academic rigour with an engaging and interesting style. It provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage, supported by illustrations and exercises designed to help readers apply current standards, whilst critically appraising the underlying concepts and financial reporting standards.

Financial Accounting and Reporting

is the ideal core textbook for courses in financial accounting, reporting and interpretation at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is also suitable for use on professional accounting programmes.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Revised annually to reflect changes in accounting regulation, Financial Accounting & Reporting has become a leading text in the field. This fully updated 8th edition continues to provide students with a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject, combining academic rigour with an engaging and interesting style. It provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage, supported by illustrations and exercises designed to help readers apply current standards, whilst critically appraising the underlying concepts and financial reporting standards.

Key features

• Comprehensive coverage
• Illustrations taken from real published accounts
• Excellent range of review questions
• Exercises of varying difficulty with solutions to selected exercises provided at the back of the book
• Extensive references
• Website includes worked solutions to all exercises in the text, case studies with suggested solutions and extracts from the financial press for seminar discussion supporting the Interpretation and Accountability sections of the text.

New features

• Fully updated to May 2003
• Corporate Governance chapter has been updated
• An overview of the progress and current position re IASB is included

Financial Accounting and Reporting is the ideal core textbook for courses in financial accounting, reporting and interpretation at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is also suitable for use on professional accounting programmes.

Barry Elliott is a training consultant. He has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional level in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. He has wide experience as an external examiner both in higher education and at all levels of professional education.

Jamie Elliott is a Director with Deloitte & Touche. Prior to this he has lectured at university on undergraduate programmes and as an assistant professor on MBA and Executive programmes at the London Business School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273685406
• ISBN 13: 9780273685401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 928