Mastering Codification and eIFRS: A Casebook Approach - Softcover

Churyk, Natalie Tatiana; Weirich, Thomas R.; Pearson, Thomas C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118107292 ISBN 13: 9781118107294

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

Churyk, Weirich, and Pearson's Mastering Codification and eIFRS: A Case Approach is a new accounting book that focuses on teaching students how to use the FASB Codification and the IASB e-IFRS research databases. This is a perfect companion for an Intermediate Accounting, Accounting Research, or Advanced Accounting course, where research skills are integrated in the curriculum. In today's environment, professional accountants conducting financial accounting research will be utilizing some type of electronic research database. Understanding how to use the FASB Codification system is becoming more crucial to a student's success on the CPA exam and their success in the profession. Throughout the text, the authors use cases to step students through the fundamentals of how to conduct research at the professional level.

About this title

About the Author

Natalie T. Churyk is a professor of Accounting at Northern Illinois University. She received her PhD from the University of South Carolina in 2001.

Thomas C. Pearson is a professor of Accounting at the University of Hawaii. He received his JD/MBA from Vanderbilt in 1984.

Thomas R. Weirich is a professor of Accounting at Central Michigan University. He received his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1976.

From the Back Cover

Welcome to the world of electronic financial accounting research. In today's environment, professional accountants conducting financial accounting research will be utilizing some type of electronic research database. This text's objective is to provide you with the tools to conduct such research. This book is designed to serve both as a reference tool for the practitioner/student who desires to become proficient in conducting electronic financial accounting research as well as a tool in honing one's research skills.

• Chapter One explains how to research U.S. GAAP which is now located in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC or the Codification).
• Chapter Two explains how to research international financial reporting standards and other authorities associated with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
• Chapter Three presents an accounting database from RIA, the SEC's EDGAR database where companies file financial reports, and other major financial accounting research databases.
• Chapter Four provides short cases which provide basic skills in researching in the FASB's Codification, IASB's eIFRS, and the other databases.
• Chapter Five presents cases that vary in length and depth of analysis. Part A gives hypothetical cases on important recent issues faced in the accounting profession. Part B presents six real life cases, simplified for an easier understanding of the challenges faced by the companies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118107292
• ISBN 13: 9781118107294
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112