Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Accounting written by Elaine Conway and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the developing challenges and opportunities within the business and finance world which are likely to impact the accounting profession in the near future. It outlines a number of approaches to ensure that the accountants of the future are equipped with a useful awareness of some of the key topic areas that are quickly becoming a reality and helps bridge the gap between academia and practice. The chapters are standalone introductory pieces to provide useful précis of key topics and how they apply to the accounting profession in particular. It aims to deliver key readings on ‘hot topics’ not addressed in other texts which the accounting profession is tackling or are likely to tackle soon. Hence the book provides accounting students and researchers a solid grounding in a broad range of highly relevant non-technical accounting themes, looking at the bigger environment in which future accountants will be operating, involving considerations of strategic corporate governance issues and highlighting competences beyond the standard technical accounting skill sets.
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting written by Alnoor Bhimani and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book comprehensively covers established and emerging areas in the fast changing field of Management Accounting. Well established accounting of practices such as budgeting, costing, responsibility accounting and capital investment analysis are discussed alongside innovative and emerging accounting based approaches to organizational control.
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Audit Management and Forensic Accounting written by Simon Grima and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18 chapters in this volume of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, expert contributors gather together to examine the extent and characteristics of forensic accounting, a field which has been practiced for many years, but is still not internationally regulated yet.
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Finance Accounting and Consumers Behavior written by Beta Yulianita Gitaharie and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are pleased to offer you with the following book titled "Contemporary Issues in Finance, Accounting and Consumers' Behaviour: Lesson From Indonesia" written by prominent authors who are specialized in the area from the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, and other top-ranked universities in Indonesia. The book covers some most recent studies and updated issues in the following areas: 1. Corporate Finance, Governance and Social Responsibility: The articles in this chapter discuss recent issues related with corporate financial management in various contexts, including risk management, risk-taking behaviour, CSR as both an antecedent and a consequence, as well as recent issues in accounting like carbon emission disclosure. 2. Auditing and Accounting Education: This chapters contains articles that analyze how earning management practice could be minimized, how risk-based internal audit could affect credit process, how settlement of government losses is practiced in central government institution, IFRS convergence and discussions on what motivates students to become accounting educators. 3. Islamic Economics and Consumer Behavior: Some issues discussed by the articles in this chapter include Islamic microfinance and women's empowerment, intention to purchase various products and services (e.g. halal personal care products, commercial airline services, motorcycle, muslim fashions, etc.), zakat as a tax deducation and its influence on tax compliance and spirituality in the workplace. This book is strongly recommended to be used as a reference for researchers, students and also business practitioners not only in Indonesia, but also wider audiences that required deeper insights/thoughts in dynamic, changing and global emerging market (i.e. in Indonesia)"--
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting written by Alnoor Bhimani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering established and emerging areas in the fast changing field of management accounting, this work discusses accounting practices such as budgeting, costing, responsibility accounting and capital investment analysis.
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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting written by Paul Rosenfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of Enron and other similar scandals, financial reporting and its relation to corporate governance has become a contentious issue. In this revealing book, author Paul Rosenfield involves the reader in exploring contemporary financial reporting and skilfully highlights the deficiencies in current methods. In doing so it provides a user-oriented guide to the salient issues which affect all aspects of financial accounting. Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting challenges the reader to critically think through the issues and arguments involved in the practice of financial reporting. It goes to the heart of the most difficult and controversial problems, investigating the major issues and commenting upon the solutions offered in financial reporting literature. The grave defects in current accepted accounting principles are demonstrated and exposed, and alternative solutions are offered. Written by a former Secretary General of the International Accounting Standards Committee, practitioners and accounting scholars alike will find this volume to be an essential addition to their libraries.
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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Public Sector Accounting and Auditing written by Simon Grima and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive account which brings a wide range of countries to the forefront in terms of both comparability and accountability, this study shines a light on the differences in accounting systems between states, and fills a gap in the literature by combining these aspects of public sector accounting and auditing within a single book.
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Download or read book Innovative Management Perspectives on Confronting Contemporary Challenges written by Evangelos Tsoukatos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the prolonged financial meltdown and the resulting clash of socio-economic interests, both between nations and within societies, unforeseen challenges have to be met by contemporary managers. The current organizational, financial, political and social situation calls for innovative, out-of-the-box solutions, while also presenting a unique "opportunity" for management scholars, practitioners and policy makers to work out and bring forward creative and imaginative, as well as realistic, responses to problems. Appealing to scholars, students, researchers and practitioners, and covering a wide spectrum of organizational types and institutions, this book provides scientific evidence, direction and insight on issues associated with confronting challenges related to the contemporary socio-economic scenario. In this respect, the presents conceptual and empirical research, putting forward a wide range of paradigms and ideas transcending conventional theory, on finding innovative solutions to contemporary business and managerial challenges. It brings forward contemporary theoretical underpinning across an array of sectors and organizational structures, while also presenting their practical implementations -- Book jacket.
Download or read book Contemporary Trends in Accounting Finance and Financial Institutions written by Taufiq Choudhry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the ICAFFI International Conference on Accounting, Finance and Financial Institutions. The main topics addressed include: corporate finance, financial markets and asset pricing, empirical finance, taxation, financial risk management, international finance, financial econometrics, financial reporting and accounting standards, managerial accounting, measuring financial performance, accounting information systems, and current issues in accounting and finance in emerging and other markets. Presenting both cutting-edge research and a broad set of methods, and combining practical and theoretical perspectives, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and regulators alike.
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