Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting, 9th Edition continues the strong reputation established by this leading Australian text as the most comprehensive book for students studying introductory accounting in undergraduate or postgraduate programs.

The full-colour design and improved pedagogy provides students with a reader-friendly text to enhance their understanding of concepts and make their study more enjoyable. The text builds on the thorough and reliable explanation of the accounting process through the Business Knowledge chapter vignettes that apply the principles to practice. Previous editions were renowned for the number of exercises and problems, and the new edition builds on this superior teaching feature.

The end-of-chapter activities are designed to encourage student confidence through the development of skills in decision making, critical thinking, ethical thinking, analysis and communication.

John Hoggett, BCom (Hons), BTh, MFM (Qld), AAUQ, FCPA, has taught accounting at several
different universities in Western Australia and Queensland during his 40 years as an academic. He
has taught introductory accounting, corporate accounting and accounting theory to undergraduate
and postgraduate students, and written books and monographs for a variety of organisations
including CPA Australia and the Group of 100. He was also involved in secondary accounting education
for several years with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia.

Lew Edwards is Emeritus Professor of the School of Accounting, Queensland University of Technology.
Lew’s career includes over 25 years teaching financial and managerial accounting to undergraduate
and postgraduate students. He was head of the School (Department) of Accountancy for
18 years. He is a both a chartered accountant and a CPA, and served for many years on education
and technical standards committees (both state and national) of the professional accounting bodies.
He has also served as a consultant to accounting firms, industry and government at both national
and international levels. Lew is co-author (with John Hoggett) of the bestselling Australian
accounting texts Financial Accounting in Australia and Accounting in Australia. He has also published
(as author and co-author) a wide range of manual and computerised accounting practice
sets.

John Medlin, PhD (UniSA), BEc (Adelaide), MEc (UNE), CA, is a senior lecturer in the School
of Commerce at the University of South Australia. John began his career with Ernst & Whinney
(now Ernst & Young) in the early 1980s. After a few years practical experience, John moved
to accounting education where he has lectured in both financial and management accounting,
accounting theory, economics and business finance. From 1998 until 2010, John coordinated a
general first-year accounting subject with an enrolment in excess of 1000 students each year, 80% of
whom were non-accounting majors. Since 2010, John has coordinated a second-year financial
accounting subject. He has been recognised with teaching awards from the University of South
Australia. His research interest is in the area of accounting education, in which he has presented
conference papers and been published.

Keryn Chalmers, BCom, Grad Dipl, PhD, is a professor of accounting and deputy dean (external
and international) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. Prior to this,
Keryn was head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University. During her
academic career, she has been responsible for accounting-related curriculum development, quality
assurance and delivery at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Keryn is an active researcher
in the financial accounting and financial reporting area, specifically in relation to accounting policy
and disclosure choices of management.

Andreas Hellmann, PhD (Macquarie), MIB (Macquarie), Diplom-Betriebswirt (Darmstadt), CA,
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance at Macquarie
University. He has extensive teaching experience in both undergraduate and postgraduate units.
His main teaching areas are financial and international accounting with a focus on developing a
passion for life-long learning and critical thinking. His research program adopts a multi-disciplinary
approach to provide theoretical, methodological and empirical evidence on ways of enhancing the
comparability and quality of accounting information for decision-making purposes. His scholarly
work is widely published in journals, edited collections and research monographs.

Claire Beattie, BCom (1st Class Honours), PhD, is a lecturer in the School of Commerce at the
University of Southern Queensland. Before becoming an accounting academic, Claire worked in
New Zealand as a management accountant in the manufacturing sector. Claire has taught both
financial and management accounting courses at universities in Australia and New Zealand,
including the University of Melbourne, University of Canterbury and Massey University. Over
the past eight years, Claire has coordinated the undergraduate and postgraduate management
accounting courses at the University of Southern Queensland. Claire’s research interests include
the practice of performance measurement, the role and impact of management accounting in nontraditional
environments and accounting education.

Jodie Maxfield, BBus (Monash), Grad Dip Tax (UCQ), MEc (UNE), is an accounting lecturer
at James Cook University (JCU). She has taught across all year levels of the undergraduate
accounting major and is currently coordinating first year accounting at JCU. Jodie’s research interests
are in accounting education and financial accounting.