"Advanced Financial Accounting" is written for second and third
year financial accounting courses on accounting or business studies degrees. It also
provides extensive coverage of the syllabuses for the advanced papers in financial
accounting and financial reporting of the ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAI and ICAS. Rigorous in
its approach, "Advanced Financial Accounting" tackles the more complex issues of
the subject in a lively and engaging mannner. Familiar in its structure and treatment of
basic concepts, the seventh edition has, none the less, been thoroughly revised and
updated to reflect recent and planned developments in financial reporting. Thus it
explains the considerable changes which are scheduled to take place in the European Union
during the next few years and the increasing importance of the International Accounting
Standards. It includes greater coverage of the International Standards and provides in
depth discussion of such issues as accounting for financial instruments, deferred taxation
and stock options as well as exploring the impact of the major changes which have occurred
in the accounting treatment of pension costs. This leading text continues to provide both
clear explanations and critical evaluations of current accounting practice, especially as
found in national and international accounting standards, and relates them to the needs of
users of financial statements.
CONTENTS
Preface
PART I THE FRAMEWORK OF
FINANCIAL REPORTING
1. The search for principles
2. Sources of authority: the United Kingdom
3. Sources of authority: the rise of international standards
4. What is profit?
PART II FINANCIAL
REPORTING IN PRACTICE
5. Assets I
6. Assets II
7. Liabilities
8. Financial instruments
9. Substance over form and leases
10. Pension costs
11. Reporting financial performance
12. Taxation: current and deferred
13. Business combinations and goodwill
14. Investments and groups
15. Associates and joint ventures
16. Overseas involvement
17. Expansion of the annual report
18. Capital reorganisation, reduction and reconstruction
PART III ACCOUNTING AND
PRICE CHANGES
19. Accounting for price
changes
20. Current cost accounting
21. Beyond current cost accounting
Index
720 pages