TY - BOOK AU - Doran,David T. TI - Financial reporting standards: a decision-making perspective for non-accountants T2 - Financial accounting and auditing collection, SN - 9781606493885 AV - HF5626 .F563 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - [New York, N.Y. (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) PB - Business Expert Press KW - Accounting KW - Standards KW - Financial Statements KW - GAAP KW - Cash Flow vs. Earnings KW - Accounting Equation Format KW - Accounting Method Choice KW - Accounting Estimates KW - Off-Balance-Sheet Financing KW - Economic Consequences of Accounting KW - Earnings Management KW - Substance Over Form KW - IFRS N1 - Part of: 2012 digital library; 2; 1. Overview of financial accounting --; 2. Cash, receivables, and revenue recognition --; 3. Inventory and cost of goods sold --; 4. Operational assets --; 5. Liabilities: current, contingent, and long-term debt --; 6. Leases --; 7. Financial instruments: investment securities and derivatives --; 8. Accounting for postretirement benefits and income taxes --; 9. Stockholders' equity and earnings per share --; 10. Statement of cash flows --; Index; 2; b; Also available in printing N2 - Accounting is the score keeping system in the "game" of business--you can't do well in any "game" if you don't understand how the score is kept. This book is intended to benefit practicing managers, MBA students, and nonaccounting business majors. United States financial reporting standards are compared and contrasted with international financial reporting standards where appropriate. The book emphasizes how management's choice of accounting methods and their required estimates in reporting transactions and events impact financial statements, both immediately and in the future. Unlike typical accounting books, journal entries are not used to illustrate topical coverage. This unique book exclusively provides a user's decision-making perspective by using the accounting equation format to directly illustrate financial statement effects of transactions and events. Most of the topics addressed in this book are typically studied by accounting majors in the two course "intermediate" accounting sequence, but the text also includes discussion of consolidations--a topic generally covered in the "advanced" accounting course. Intermediate accounting textbooks alone typically exceed well over 1,500 pages. By exclusively applying a user's perspective, and limiting topical content to areas relevant for decision making, this book allows nonaccountants to acquire the requisite underlying knowledge in a concise, easy to understand text UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BEPB0000131.html ER -