Accounting Handbook - Hardcover

The new edition of this authoritative reference volume belongs on the bookshelf of every accountant, bookkeeper, accounting manager, business manager, and student majoring in business administration. Its early chapters present an overview of financial accounting with focus on financial statements, reporting requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Corporate governance, management/cost accounting, analysis of financial statements, and up-to-date information on taxation. The major section that follows is a nearly-500-page A-to-Z dictionary of accounting terms, defining everything from Accelerated Cost Recovery System to Zero-Base Budgeting. Concluding chapters cover information technology (IT), quantitative methods for accounting, auditing, personal financial planning, governmental and nonprofit accounting, forensic accounting, and international accounting. Added features include tables, diagrams, and extensive appendices.

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Accounting
Handbook
Fourth Edition

An overview of financial accounting

An A-to-Z dictionary of accounting terms

Accounting and Information Technology

Quantitative accounting methods

Auditing

Personal financial planning . . . and much more

Tables, Diagrams, and Appendices

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Accounting Handbook
Fourth Edition

Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA, and Jae K. Shim, Ph.D.

The fourth edition of this authoritative reference volume belongs on the bookshelf of every accountant, bookkeeper, accounting manager, business manager, and student majoring in business administration. Its early chapters present an overview of financial accounting with focus on financial statements, reporting requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Corporate governance, management/cost accounting, analysis of financial statements, and up-to-date information on taxation. The major section that follows is a nearly-500-page A-to-Z dictionary of accounting terms, defining everything from Accelerated Cost Recovery System to Zero-Base Budgeting. Concluding chapters cover information technology (IT), quantitative methods for accounting, auditing, personal financial planning, governmental and nonprofit accounting, forensic accounting, and international accounting. Added features include tables, diagrams, and extensive appendices.

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Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA, is Professor of Accounting at Queens College in the City University of New York.

Jae K. Shim, Ph.D., is Professor of Accounting, School of Business Administration, California State University, Long Beach.