Product Description

Revised annually to reflect the frequent changes in accounting regulation, Financial Accounting and Reporting by Elliott and Elliott has become a leading text in its field. It provides thorough coverage of the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of financial accounting and reporting, whilst illustrating their practical application and limitations. The seventh edition has been fully revised and updated to May 2002 to reflect the latest ASB pronouncements. Financial Accounting & Reporting 7th edition, is the ideal core textbook for courses in financial accounting, reporting and interpretation at second and final year undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is also suitable for use on professional accounting programmes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #943731 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 924 pages

From the Back Cover
Revised annually to reflect the frequent changes in accounting regulation, Financial Accounting & Reporting has become a leading text in the field. This fully-updated edition continues to provide students with a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject, combining academic rigour with an engaging and interesting style. It provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage, supported by illustrations and exercises designed to help readers apply current standards, whilst critically appraising the underlying concepts and financial reporting standards.

Classic features

• Comprehensive coverage
• Illustrations taken from real published accounts
• Excellent range of review questions
• Exercises of varying difficulty with solutions to selected exercises provided at the back of the book
• Extensive references

• Fully updated to May 2002
• New chapter combining Stock and Long-term Contracts
• New chapter on Financial Instruments
• New Website to contain:

          For lecturers

• Fully worked solutions to all exercises in the text
• Selection of case studies with suggested solutions

Financial Accounting and Reporting is the ideal core textbook for courses in financial accounting, reporting and interpretation at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is also suitable for use on professional accounting programmes.

Barry Elliott is a training consultant. He has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional level in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. He has wide experience as an external examiner both in higher education and at all levels of professional education.

Jamie Elliott is a Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche. Prior to this he has lectured at university on undergraduate programmes and as an assistant professor on MBA and Executive programmes at the London Business School.

Customer Reviews

Logical
When used for my second year of My accounts degree, I found it made a big difference being able to reference this book. It clearly set out most of the information I needed to know.