Corporate Financial Accounting & Reporting

The aim ofCorporate Financial Accounting and Reporting is to help current and future managers gain a thorough understanding of companies' published financial reports. The book takes an international perspective: international accounting practices are described and illustrated throughout the text. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate changes in International Accounting Standards.

The text is divided into three parts. The first part covers the foundations of accounting and introduces students to the main financial statements. The second part looks at the components of financial statements in more depth while the third part explores how investors analyse financial statements.

Key Features

• Comprehensive coverage

•  includes some topics which do not usually appear in introductory texts and explains others in more detail than is customary.

• Clarity: the book is suitable for a range of students from around the world and has been extensively class tested in Europe.

• International approach: covers the most common accounting practices in the financial statements of both European and non-European companies as well as relevant EU and IAS requirements.