Download or read book The History of Accounting RLE Accounting written by Michael Chatfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper, Yuji Ijiri, Stephen A. Zeff and other figures. This encyclopedia presents more than 400 entries that focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts, accounting issues, authors in accounting, records, leaders in the profession, accounting in various countries, financial court cases, accounting exams and historical researchers.
Download or read book International Group Accounting RLE Accounting written by S. Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.
Download or read book Multinational Accounting RLE Accounting written by Bimal Prodhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up until the mid 1980s multinational enterprises usually published only consolidated worldwide accounts. This changed in subsequent years with increasing legal requirements to publish separate national accounts for each subsidiary. Obviously this exposes the subsidiary to the risk of takeover by a competitor and/or to intervention on the part of the host government. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the disclosure issue from both theoretical and practical standpoints. The author describes the methods used to research and evaluate disclosure risks and benefits and presents much new thinking and many new research findings on this important topic.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers RLE Accounting written by J. R. Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1994 this volume was the first international review of accounting theory to focus on the contributions of its leading thinkers. Very few attempts had been made, in the accounting literature, to assess the contribution of the theorists who have had such an important influence on the direction of research and practice. Written by experts the studies in this volume provide a unique guide to the development of accounting theory and practice in regions as diverse as the USA, Japan and Europe.
Download or read book International Group Accounting RLE Accounting written by S. J. Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.
Download or read book An Introduction to Multinational Accounting written by Frederick D. S. Choi and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Accounts RLE Accounting written by Cleona Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses and presents the results of the trade, service and financial operations between any given country and the rest of the world. Among other issues the volume discusses tax measures of the 1920s, ascertaining the trend of foreign assets, verifying economic theory, providing analysis of war and reconstruction problems, and discussing foreign investments from the USA, France, Canada and Britain.
Download or read book Perspectives on Accounting and Finance in China RLE Accounting written by John Blake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rush of entrepreneurial activity in China has been watched with interest by the financial world. This book, the result of an international symposium on Chinese accounting and financial management, assesses the little-known accounting scene in China which up until 1978 remained behind closed doors. Divided into four sections, the volume covers: Chinese perspectives on accounting the business and financial structure of China, including the re-emergence of a Chinese stock market the regulatory framework of accounting in China and comparisons with international accounting standards; the impact of current reforms in Chinese accounting practice the emergence of a new accounting profession in China. The concluding chapter provides an overview of the cultural context of the reforms which took place in the 1990s. By using comparisons with other Asian countries’ accounting systems, like Taiwan, the contributors to the volume give an analysis of the state of accountancy in China during the 1990s.
Download or read book Accounting in France RLE Accounting written by Yannick Lemarchand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates the research not only of French accountants (Colasse, Durand, Jouanique, Lemarchand, Nikitin, Richard, Tessier) but also the work of Belgian authors writing in French (Stevelinck, Haulotte) and of French non-accountants (de Swarte, Durdilly, Sauvy). The work of British and North American academics, writing in English on French accounting history is also illustrated from the 1930s (Howard, Edwards), through to the 1960s (Parker) and the more recent research of Standish, Fortin and Bhimani. The contributions to this volume have been arranged both chronologically and thematically as follows: the earliest business accounting records; the first French accounting authors; Colbert, Savbary and the Ordonnance de Commerce; the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; cost accounting; the national accounting plan; national income accounting; government accounting and accounting theory. An abstract of each contribution is given in both English and French.
Download or read book Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis in the early 1900s RLE Accounting written by Richard P. Brief and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this book, most of which are not widely available, discuss the evolution of financial reporting at a time when it was rare for companies to present detailed reports to their shareholders. Some early annual reports are reprinted here, including the 1902 annual report of the United States Steel Corporation, the 1909 annual report of the International Harvester Company, the 1910 annual report of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and the 1911 annual report of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
Download or read book Cash Flow Reporting RLE Accounting written by Thomas A. Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores Kuhn’s 1970 perception of a scientific revolution in the form of a cyclical sequence of anomaly recognition; insecurity, alternative ideas, schools of thought and dominating practices. Cash flow reporting has become a dominant accounting practice which emerged from a developmental process of Kuhnian form. The text is constructed around the various stages identified by Kuhn and selected readings are categorised accordingly.
Download or read book International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises written by Lee H. Radebaugh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make informed decisions in today's dynamic international business environments International accounting has never been so exciting. Not only is the pace of international business, finance, and investment rapidly increasing, but we are also moving closer than ever before toward a convergence of accounting standards worldwide. Updated and revised to keep pace with these changes, this Sixth Edition of Radebaugh, Gray, and Black's International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises focuses on international business strategies and how accounting applies to these strategies. You'll learn how to use financial and accounting information across borders, and make more informed decisions in an increasingly complex international business environment. The authors also explain the key factors, including cultural differences, that influence accounting standards and practices in different countries, and how those factors impact the harmonization of standards worldwide. New to This Edition: * New coauthor, Ervin L. Black of Brigham Young University. * Updated coverage on corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), and how these forces affect U.S.-based multinationals, as well as companies in other countries. * Increased coverage of the efforts of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to establish a uniform set of International Financial Reporting Standards (IRFS) worldwide and its interface with different national standard setters, especially the FASB. Special attention is given to the experience of the European Union and Australia in adopting IFRS in 2005. * A web-based International Accounting Practice Problem, which helps students see how to apply IFRS to a set of transactions. * Brief, user-oriented examples called Strategic Decision Points at the beginning of each chapter. * Expanded end-of-chapter material, including more discussion questions and exercises. * New cases (two per chapter) on the web. * Accounting for foreign exchange is now covered in two chapters. One chapter focuses on accounting issues, and the other chapter, which is new, focuses on foreign exchange risk management.
Download or read book International Accounting and Transnational Decisions written by S. J. Gray and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Accounting and Transnational Decisions explores a wide range of significant international accounting issues with special reference to the comparative development of national systems of accounting, international accounting standards, transnational financial reporting issues and financial planning and control in the multinational corporation. The book is organized into five parts. Part I discusses the international dimensions of accounting including both the financial reporting and managerial decision-making perspectives. The second part is concerned with the comparative international aspects of accounting. The Part III presents developments and questions relating to international accounting standards. The fourth part considers a number of selected transnational financial reporting issues of concern both to managers and financial statement users. The last part takes a managerial perspective in its coverage of important problems of transnational financial decision making and control. Accountants and students of accounting will find the book useful.
Download or read book Economic Accounting RLE Accounting written by Diran Bodenhorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three parts this volume discusses the Crusoe model of accounting, and a model appropriate for the Crusoe model. It also considers some accounting problems which arise in the real world as well as a discussion of government and business accounting, along with money, banks and financial institutions.
Download or read book Corporate Financial Reporting in a Competitive Economy RLE Accounting written by Herman W. Bevis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the financial accounting and reporting of publicly owned corporations to their shareholders. It examines the origins of financial accounting and reporting, external influences on accounting and reporting practices as well as the measurement process.
Download or read book Accounting From the Outside RLE Accounting written by Tony Hopwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.
Download or read book Accounting Methodology and the Work of R J Chambers RLE Accounting written by Michael J. R. Gaffikin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the development of methodology in philosophy and economics with particular focus on the work of Raymond Chambers. As well as analysing the reception on methodological lines, afforded his work by both academic and professional communities, the volume discusses some significant contributions by French and German scholars to the debate about why scientific communities have accepted some theories and rejected others.
