Financial Accounting and Reporting II (UUM Press)


Book Description

This book is specifically designed for students enrolled in Financial Accounting and Reporting II course. The objective of this book is to assist students to understand the contents of the course by focusing on the Standards and its application in reporting companies’ financial statements. This book has been arranged according to the syllabus that consistent with the Hala tuju 3 in curriculum review process. There are nine chapters in the FAR II course and each chapter discussed in this book contains learning objectives, an introduction, comprehensive discussion, summary and accompanied by practical illustrations with suggested solutions. To facilitate students understanding, a comprehensive set of revision questions are available at the end of each chapter with some clues to the answers. Written in simple English by experienced lecturers, students will find this book to be useful and friendly companion in their learning process. This book can also serves as a good and helpful teaching materials for lecturers.




Financial Accounting and Reporting I (UUM Press)


Book Description

There are 11 chapters in the FAR I course and this book focus on the essential 10 chapters. Each chapter contains learning objectives, an introduction, comprehensive discussion, summary and accompanied by practical and comprehensive illustrations with suggested solutions. To facilitate students understanding, a comprehensive set of revision questions are available at the end of each chapter with some clues to the answers. Written in simple English by experienced lecturers, students will find this book to be useful and friendly companion in their learning process. This book can also serves as a good and helpful teaching materials for lecturers.




Financial Accounting and Reporting (I, II & III): A Collection of Comprehensive Cases (UUM Press)


Book Description

A Collection of Comprehensive Cases is a compilation book of comprehensive cases for Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) I, II and III. This book is specially designed for accounting students in FAR subjects to be more familiar with the format and the structure of comprehensive cases. The objective of this book is to assist students to have a better understanding on the case instructions as well as to guide them on how to answer well those instructions. The book is also meant as a good reference for students as they have their own collection of comprehensive cases and the key answers were also systematically arranged for them to do revision.




Accounting Theory and Practice in the Malaysian Context (UUM Press)


Book Description

The main objective of this book is to facilitate the students to understand the underlying regulatory process of financial accounting reporting, companies’ manager behaviour when preparing their financial reports, corporate governance and theories applicable to accounting practice explaining the circumstances given in the current phenomenon. The content of this book provides a useful insight to it readers about the development of accounting system in Malaysia, the conceptual framework that underpinned accounting practice particularly the regulatory and professional bodies, the general theories underlying the current practice of accounting reporting, standards and practice, and contemporary issues in financial accounting reporting such as measurements, sustainability reporting and digitisation reporting.




Basics of Consolidation of Financial Statements (UUM Press)


Book Description

This book, Basics of Consolidation of Financial Statements, presents a step-by-step approach in learning the basics concepts in consolidation of financial statements. Rather than focusing on complex explanations and discussions, this book explains consolidation of financial statements using simple concepts. The book is intended primarily for students who are at the advanced stage of financial accounting and reporting course. To prepare consolidated financial statements, it is essential for students to equip themselves with strong understanding of the basic concepts of consolidation. Therefore, the aim of this book is to provide accounting students with a framework for learning these basic concepts in consolidation. Each chapter of the books offers examples, comprehensive illustrations, exercises and problems for students to tackle at different stages of the consolidation so that the students’ understanding on the concepts and techniques of consolidations is strengthened.




Business Accounting (UUM Press)


Book Description

This book is written with reader’s interest in our mind to have a basic knowledge on accounting. It outlines clearly the fundamental principles of the accounting in the most non accounting basic user friendly manner. The book is structured into 11 chapters which cover the main topics in the basic accounting course syllabus. The content is presented in a simple and stringht forward learning outcomes, chapters overviews and series of questions, yet with comprehensive coverage. Hints of solutions to all questions are given at the end of each chapter and all questions are developed to assess studing-learning outcomes.







Designing Social Inquiry


Book Description

Designing Social Inquiry focuses on improving qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. What are the right questions to ask? How should you define and make inferences about causal effects? How can you avoid bias? How many cases do you need, and how should they be selected? What are the consequences of unavoidable problems in qualitative research, such as measurement error, incomplete information, or omitted variables? What are proper ways to estimate and report the uncertainty of your conclusions?




Assessing Aid


Book Description

Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.