Financial accounting

This report investigates the presentation and analysis of financial information in 41 UK Manufacturing companies.

This fully revised edition of Company Accounts shows how to interpret published accounts to obtain maximum information about a company, explaining the full significance of the key statements set out in these accounts.

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and applying the latest global framework for disclosing sustainability-related risks and opportunities by public-sector business entities, irrespective of whether the entity follows IFRS or GAAP.

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "e;ordinary"e; taxation.

This book explores the evolution of value relevance in finance and accounting.

Manufacturing firms are moving beyond manufacturing to offer services and solutions, often delivered through their products, or at least in association with them.

The United Dutch East India Company was the first public company, preceding the formation of the English East-India Company by over 40 years.

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Finance is key to every business organisation as well as outside.

Focussing on the dominance of the Big Four auditing firms - PwC, EY, Deloitte and KPMG - this concise volume provides an authoritative critical assessment of the state and future of the audit market, currently the subject of much debate and the focus of significant government enquiries.

Intellectual Capital investigates how companies throughout Ireland are measuring their intellectual capital assets and how their efforts compare to those of the leading exponents of intellectual capital.

Through the arguments for corporate tax harmonization in the EU and describing the current stage of this process, the legislative rules which are insufficient to solve the many problems implied by the proper functioning of the Single Market, are revealed.

The planet is currently experiencing a mass extinction event, with human and business activity being the root cause of species loss and habitat destruction.

Today, information technology plays a pivotal role in financial control and audit: most financial data is now digitally recorded and dispersed among servers, clouds and networks over which the audited firm has no control.

Forensic accounting is gaining considerable attention as a rewarding and exciting field of accounting.

The Origins Of Accounting Culture aim at studying the origins of the accounting culture in Venice, with a specific focus on accounting education.

Successful Foreign Acquisitions investigates two cross-border acquisitions with the aim of looking at the role of management accounting in the process and drawing useful lessons about the acquistion and integration process for practioners.

This book asserts that intangibles create financial transactions, not vice versa.

In the late 1980s, financial accounting in Britain was in disarray.

`This is a book which should be read by all students, whether undergraduate and postgraduate.

Financial accounting is the branch of accounting thought and practice concerned with preparing and providing information for external users of financial statements.

The Routledge Handbook of FinTech offers comprehensive coverage of the opportunities, challenges and future trends of financial technology.

Between the Lines of the Balance Sheet: The Plain Man's Guide to Published Accounts, Second Edition presents a discussion of the main ideas underlying accountancy and its application to investment decisions.

Focusing on research that examines both individual and organizational behavior relative to accounting, Volume 25 of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research uncovers emerging theories, methods and applications.

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This book provides a new evolutionary perspective on outsourcing.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of international corporate reporting which enhances students' understanding of diversity and convergence in the field.

They say that numbers don't lie, but what if you can't even read them?

This book examines current topics and trends in strategic auditing, accounting and finance in digital transformation both from a theoretical and practical perspective.

Understanding the dynamic landscape of voluntary business reporting is crucial for navigating the evolving complexities of accounting practices, towards achieving a more sustainable and equitable world.

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field, exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to the modern day.

Accounting is often referred to as the language of business.

Despite the development of innovative approaches to strengthen accountability and the quality of integrated reporting disclosures, stakeholders are increasingly demanding more objective and unambiguous data.

The financial statements of banks differ very much from those of non-banks.

The audit profession is at a tipping point.

With over 200 professional associations, 120 pieces of authoritative literature, 65 well-known fraud cases, 62 accounting firms (including the origins and growth of the "e;Big Four"e;), 55 regulatory statutes, 30 frameworks, and much more, this unique book shows in a chronological sequence a range of select issues and events that have impacted and led to the growth of the professions of accounting, auditing, and finance since 1800.

This book explores new topics in modern research on empirical corporate finance and applied accounting, especially the econometric analysis of microdata.

The internet is dramatically transforming the way business is done, particularly for financial services.

There are many practical textbooks explaining how taxation is applied and calculated but few ever deal thoroughly with the theory behind the practice.

The 39th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

Margins of Error in Accounting covers the main reasons why published company accounts cannot be completely 'accurate' and the likely extent of the resulting errors.

Spending on M&A has, in aggregate, grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets.