Product Description

Financial Accounting & Reporting is the most up-to-date text on the market. Now fully updated in its 13th edition, it includes extensive coverage of International Accounting Standards (IASs) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs).

This market-leading text offers students a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject. Supported by illustrations and exercises, the book provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage. Students using this book will gain the knowledge and skills to help them apply current standards, and critically appraise the underlying concepts and financial reporting methods.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17947 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 926 pages

From the Back Cover

Financial Accounting & Reporting is the most up-to-date text on the market. Now fully updated in its 13th edition, it includes extensive coverage of International Accounting Standards (IASs) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs).

This market-leading text offers students a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject. Supported by illustrations and exercises, the book provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage. Students using this book will gain the knowledge and skills to help them apply current standards, and critically appraise the underlying concepts and financial reporting methods.

Key features

• Combines academic rigour with an engaging and accessible style
• Coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Illustrations taken from real published accounts
• Excellent range of review questions
• Numerous exercises, varying in level of difficulty, with solutions where applicable
• Extensive references
• A section on the Analysis of Accounts
• A section on Accountability – includes Corporate Governance issues, Sustainability - environmental and social reporting and Ethics

New features for this edition

• Fully updated to May 2009
• Updated coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Substantial revisions to Analysis of Accounts and Accountability chapters
•  Selected chapters include new additional questions and exercises
• Includes more examples of extracts from real financial reports
• Fully supported by a comprehensive set of multiple choice questions online, covering all parts of the text.

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 Director with Deloitte & Touche. Prior to this he has lectured at university on undergraduate degree programmes and as an assistant professor on MBA and Executive programmes at the London Business School.

About the Author
Barry Elliott Currently a training consultant. He has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional level. Jamie Elliott Senior Manager with Deloitte&Touche. Prior to this he was a Lecturer in accounting at the University of Southampton.

Customer Reviews

not very good for self study
My main problem with this text is the lack of explanation around examples and answers to selected questions. The answers at the end of the textbook are literally 1 line answers so if your numbers don't match you have no idea where you went wrong.

The sections about accounting standards are good and detailed so it worth's buying this with another book.

not recommended for self study
This book does not provide good answers for self study, they are too brief. It is good for learning uk accounting standards or as a referrence with an additional work book with answers.

Not a good book for fin. accounting students
I do not recommend this book as a course book for financial accounting students who would like to study fin. accounting. It does not contain any case studies and its ratio analysis part is a bit poor. However, this is a really good book to read or refer to if someone is interested in learning more about the details of UK accounting standards. Lastly, it is not so easy to read and understand.