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Advanced financial accounting / Richard Lewis and David Pendrill.

By: Lewis, Richard, 1941 September 30-.
Contributor(s): Pendrill, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Harlow : Financial Times, 2000Edition: 6th ed.Description: x, 677 p. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0273638335; 9780273638339.Subject(s): Accounting | Accounting | Financial accounting | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Finance and AccountingDDC classification: 657.48 LEW | 657.48
Contents:
Part 1: The framework of financial reporting -- The search for principles -- Sources of authority -- What is profit? -- Part 2: Financial reporting in practice -- Assets -- Liabilities and related issues -- Financial statements - form and content -- Taxation: current and deferred -- Business combinations and goodwill -- Investments, groups, associates and joint ventures -- Overseas involvement -- Expansion of the annual report -- Capital reorganisation, reduction and reconstruction -- Part 3: Interpretation and valuation -- Interpretation of financial statements -- The valuation of securities and businesses -- Part 4: Accounting and price changes -- Accounting for inflation -- Current cost accounting introduced -- Current cost accounting developed -- Beyond current cost accounting.
Summary: Advanced Financial Accounting provides a comprehensive treatment of current financial reporting in the UK and is the leading textbook for 2nd and 3rd year courses in universities. Basic and advanced questions are provided at the end of the book.
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Advanced Financial Accounting 6eRichard Lewis and David PendrillAdvanced Financial Accounting provides a lively and comprehensive treatment of current financial reporting standards. The sixth edition retains the successful familiar structure and basic concepts of the previous editions, while being thoroughly updated to reflect the changes and developments that have occurred in UK accounting over the last few years. This major revision includes coverage of the issue of all reporting standards up to and including FRS 15, together with financial reporting exposure drafts and discussion papers issued by the ASB. The new edition also contains greater coverage of the standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee and discussion of controversial topics, including: ? the development of the ASB statement of principles? the continuing debate about the incorporation of current values in financial statements? the treatment of emerging forms of financial assets and liabilities including derivativesThe book provides both clear explanations and critical evaluations of current accounting practice, especially as found in the accounting standards, and relates them to the needs

Previous ed. London Pitman, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: The framework of financial reporting -- The search for principles -- Sources of authority -- What is profit? -- Part 2: Financial reporting in practice -- Assets -- Liabilities and related issues -- Financial statements - form and content -- Taxation: current and deferred -- Business combinations and goodwill -- Investments, groups, associates and joint ventures -- Overseas involvement -- Expansion of the annual report -- Capital reorganisation, reduction and reconstruction -- Part 3: Interpretation and valuation -- Interpretation of financial statements -- The valuation of securities and businesses -- Part 4: Accounting and price changes -- Accounting for inflation -- Current cost accounting introduced -- Current cost accounting developed -- Beyond current cost accounting.

Advanced Financial Accounting provides a comprehensive treatment of current financial reporting in the UK and is the leading textbook for 2nd and 3rd year courses in universities. Basic and advanced questions are provided at the end of the book.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Part I The Framework of Financial Reporting
  • Part II Financial Reporting in Practice
  • Part III Accounting and Price Changes
  • Index