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An edition of More than a numbers game (2006)

More than a numbers game

a brief history of accounting

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The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too-little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later. Somehow, over a one-hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler o...

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John Wiley & Sons
Language
English
Pages
256

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Comptabilité, Finance, Business, Histoire, Droit, Law and legislation, Standards, Standardisierung, Normes, Nonfiction, Buchhaltung, Accounting, Rechnungswesen, Geschichte, History, Accounting, standards, Accounting, law and legislation, Accounting, history

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Table of Contents

Double-entry
Railroads
Taxes
Costs
Disclosure
Standards
Science
Inflation
Volatility
Intangibles
Debt
Options
Earnings
SOX
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Hoboken, N.J
Series
Wiley finance series

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Dewey Decimal Class
657.0973
Library of Congress
HF5616.U5 K53 2006, HF5616.U5K53 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
256

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OL3420224M
ISBN 10
0470008733
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9780470008737
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2005037200
OCLC/WorldCat
62741429
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2967425
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190482

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OL5843471W

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