Accounting: Books

Reflecting current tax laws, this comprehensive reference volume covers financial and cost accounting, business and individual tax preparation, computer applications of accounting, quantitative accounting methods, auditing, personal financial planning, and governmental and nonprofit accounting.

The Management Accountant's Standard Desk Reference is a working guide that will assist practitioners in quickly pinpointing and solving problems. They'll learn what to look for, what to do, and when and how to do it. The measures, guidelines, ratios, formulas, procedures, techniques, and rules of thumb included will provide solutions to virtually any managerial accounting-related problems that arise in practice.

The encyclopedia contain the following types of articles:- Country and regional essays; major essays on abstract concepts; major essays on institutions, phenomena, and historical processes; shorter essays on abstract concepts; shorter essays on concrete facts, institutions, events, and phenomena; important names from both technology and business, along with economic historians of note.

Fully updated in a new edition, Accounting Best Practices, Seventh Edition draws from renowned accounting leader Steven Bragg's extensive experience in successfully developing, operating, and consulting various accounting departments. This invaluable resource has the at-your-fingertips information you need, whether you've been searching for ways to cut costs in your accounting department, or just want to offer more services without the added expense.

This short book reveals the signs that suggest financial corruption in organizations and proposes remedies to contain it and prevent its recurrence. It can be used as a supplementary source in introductory financial accounting courses (elementary and intermediate), accounting- and finance-related MBA courses, and business history; or it can be used as part of forensic accounting and fraud detection for continuing education.

The Controller's Function provides an overview of the functions and responsibilities of the controller/management accountant in a corporation. It explores how controllers can better perform their jobs and offers a solid foundation for those who are new to this area. Comprehensive and practical, this book fully defines the role, functions and responsibilities of the managerial accountant in a corporation.

This fully revised edition covers more than 6,000 terms relating to accounting, from company tax liability, cash flow systems, auditing and financial reports to personal finance, pensions and investments.

Provides topics such as basic concepts and principles of accounting, accounting standards, recording of financial data, capital and revenue, and International Accounting Standards.

This handbook is a compilation of papers that present researched knowledge of Strategic Account Management (SAM) across the academic community which fills a void in the existing academic literature. Handbook of Strategic Account Management identifies drivers of the SAM approach, key issues and success factors, operational needs and areas still awaiting exploration.

This book introduces corporate financial management, based on the basic capital budgeting framework and the time value of money. Based on fundamental principles of accounting and finance like time value of money and after-tax cash flows, it introduces readers to real-world constraints and complexities in the two fields.

An approach to taxation that goes beyond an emphasis on tax rates to consider such aspects as administration, compliance, and remittance. Despite its theoretical elegance, the standard optimal tax model has significant limitations. In this book, Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer argue that tax analysis must move beyond the emphasis on optimal tax rates and bases to consider such aspects of taxation as administration, compliance, and remittance.

Using Accounting and Financial Information targets professionals with limited exposure to--or formal training in-- accounting or related finance disciplines. The primary purpose of this book is to help managers and business owners from diverse professional and educational backgrounds to: (1) converse more effectively with their accounting and finance colleagues; (2) understand the structure and the elements of general-purpose financial statements, (3) identify both the usefulness and the limitations of accounting information; (4) prepare basic financial forecasts; and (5) make sense of commonly used decision-making models.