Corporate financial accounting and reporting

One of the most important financial issues in the 21st Century will be the harmonisation of the accounting rules companies must follow. Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting recognises the increasingly international nature of accounting. It gives full coverage of international accounting standards and the European Union's Company Law Directives provide its legal framework. The book takes a pragmatic approach to its subject matter, explaining general accounting practices which are not country-specific and Illustrating them with examples from real companies.
Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting is an introductory accounting textbook directed. Its aim is to help current and future managers gain a thorough understanding of companies' published accounts. With this goal in mind, the book is divided into three parts. The first part covers the foundations of accounting and introduces students to the main financial statements. The second part considers the components of financial statements in more depth while the third part explores how investors analyse financial statements.
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 1AS requirements.
Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting is designed for international MBA programmes and specialist postgraduate programmes in international business/finance in Europe. It can also be used in international business programmes at the undergraduate level.
About the author
Tim Sutton is visiting Professor of Accounting at IESE, the graduate business school of the University of Navarra based in Barcelona. He has taught accounting for over 20 years and has held teaching appointments in US and Canadian universities as well as at Cranfield in the U K and INSEAD in France. A Chartered Accountant, he has U K undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and a doctorate from the USA. His teaching experience has been across undergraduate, postgraduate and executive development programmes and he has published research in leading academic journals.