Contemporary Issues in Accounting


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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.




Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting


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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.




Contemporary Issues in Sustainability Accounting, Assurance and Reporting


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This volume draws together contemporary topics, themes and methodologies in the field of sustainability reporting and assurance to reveal how sustainability information is actually used, interpreted and processed by internal and external users.




Contemporary Issues in Audit Management and Forensic Accounting


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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.




Contemporary Issues in Finance, Accounting, and Consumers' Behavior:


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"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)"--




Accounting Theory


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This easy-to-read accounting theory text contains two distinct, but integrated parts. Part One focuses on two interwoven topics: accounting theory formulation and standard setting in a chronological format. This section analyzes the major historical efforts attempted in the development of an accounting theory. The Conceptual Framework project is studied, and the FASB and how it influences current standard setting is examined. Part Two covers contemporary financial reporting issues as they relate to the FASB's Conceptual Framework. Controversial accounting areas, such as cash flows, accounting for pensions, post-employment benefits and stock options, are studied within the context of the definitions of assets and liabilities provided by the Conceptual Framework. Interesting and challenging cases provide the reader with practical experience in applying accounting theory.




Contemporary Issues in Social Accounting


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This important and timely new text introduces and explains the key ideas of accounting for society, the historical development of corporate social responsibility, accountability and ethics and their importance to everyday life.




Contemporary Research in Accounting, Auditing and Finance


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The business world needs to follow developments in the areas of accounting, auditing and finance in order to be able to adapt to globalization, technological advances and changing human needs. This book explores current issues in accounting, auditing and finance from a scientific point of view, and makes various suggestions for their solutions. In this context, the contributions here take into account the latest developments in the field and utilise a wide range of resources. The reader will learn about participation banks, audit risk, financial manipulation, forensic accounting, accounting errors, the effects of blockchain technologies, electronic finances, efficient markets hypothesis, integrated reporting, production costs, Islamic banking, enterprise risk management systems, and TAS16.




Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting


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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.




Contemporary Environmental Accounting


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Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written by two of the world's leading experts in the field in order to provide the most comprehensive and state-of-the-art textbook on environmental accounting yet attempted. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers, professional accountants, and corporate and organisational managers. Although no prior knowledge of environmental accounting is necessary to understand the critical issues at stake, academic accountants will also find that the book provides a useful introduction to the topic. The goals of the book are to discuss and illustrate contemporary conceptual approaches to environmental accounting; to make readers aware of crucial controversial topics; and to offer practical examples of how the concepts have been applied throughout Europe, North America and Australia. In order to increase the usefulness of the book for relevant courses, each chapter concludes with a set of questions for review. This book is essential reading for all those who are interested in how environmental issues influence accounting. A solutions manual is available on request with the purchase of this book.