The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS - Softcover

Bragg, Steven M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470619473 ISBN 13: 9780470619476

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Synopsis

Quick answers to your IFRS questions

Presented in a question and answer format, The Vest Pocket IFRS provides a brief explanation of each IFRS topic, the issues involved, and the solution. Coverage includes calculations, journal entries, flowcharts outlining various options, footnotes disclosures, and brief examples.

• Provides quick answers to specific questions in a Q & A format
• Focuses on the most common accounting problems arising from a particular IFRS topic
• Calculations, footnotes disclosures, and brief examples are provided
• Other titles by Bragg: The Vest Pocket Controller, Accounting Best Practies, Sixth Edition, and Just-in-Time Accounting, Third Edition

The first book of its kind to answer IFRS issues on the spot, The Vest Pocket IFRS gives you the quick, specific IFRS answers you need right now.

About this title

About the Author

STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over thirty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.

From the Back Cover

Get quick answers to all your IFRS questions

Presenting a question-and-answer format for the most common accounting problems arising from specific IFRS topics, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage of all International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

This reliable reference tool goes anywhere you go&;to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting, with on-the-spot answers to questions such as:

• What are the thresholds for segment reporting?
• How do I restate financial results in a hyperinflationary economy?
• How do I recognize intangible assets?
• What is a provision, and when do I recognize it?
• How do I account for a business combination?
• How do I determine an entity's functional currency, and how do I report transactions in that currency?
• And much more!

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for understanding the day-to-day IFRS issues every accountant, controller, or CFO is sure to face, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now, in the quick-reference format you need.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470619473
• ISBN 13: 9780470619476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416