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Issues in Financial Accounting Paperback

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Reflects changes to the Australian Accounting Standards Board

Issues in Financial Accounting combines the theoretical with practical application to address key concepts and issues in financial accounting.

Updated to reflect changes to the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) standards and interpretations (up to the end of September 2016), changes to this edition have focused on accounting content and updates.

Real world examples balanced with a breadth and depth of content ensures students develop a critical understanding of the topics in financial accounting.

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  • Streamlined coverage of the conceptual framework down to two chapters and the addition of two entirely new chapters
    • Chapter 4 – Fair value measurement
    • Chapter 15 – Revenue
  • Increased coverage of AASB 2 Share-based payment (Chapter 12) plus End of Chapter questions
  • All references to Accounting Standards and interpretations have been checked and updated
  • End of Chapter questions now tagged to Learning Outcomes and have been revised and updated
  • End of Chapter Problems are now tagged to Learning Outcomes to link theory and practice to outcomes

About the Author

SCOTT HENDERSON AM is Emeritus Professor in the Business School at the University of Adelaide. His PhD is from UCLA. He was previously Professor of Accounting at Monash University and has also taught at the University of Manitoba; University of California, Los Angeles; San Diego State University; and the University of Regina. He has previously been a National President of CPA Australia and a consultant to both the public and private sectors. He was also co-author of Issues in Financial Accounting and Financial Accounting Theory, and the author or co-author of more than 60 published papers.

GRAHAM PEIRSON is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University. He undertakes research in the area of financial accounting and reporting. In particular, he is interested in issues relating to accounting standard setting and the regulation of financial reporting. He was a member of the Accounting Standards Board of the Australian Accounting Research Foundation before the Board’s merger with the Accounting Standards Review Board in 1988.

From 1979 to 1989, he was a member of Council of the Victorian Division of CPA Australia, serving as President in 1985/86. He was the inaugural Chairman of CPA Australia’s External Reporting Centre of Excellence and served on the CoE in that capacity until 1999. He was a member of the Public Sector Accounting Standards Board of the Australian Accounting Research Foundation from 1989 until it merged with the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) in 2000. He was a member of the AASB from 2000 to 2002. Business finance is also an area in which he has an interest, as evidenced by his co-authorship of Essentials of Business FinanceBusiness Finance and Financial Accounting Theory, and Financial Accounting: An Introduction. In addition, he has published widely in journals in Australia and overseas. He is the former Director of the Department’s Centre for Research in Accounting and Finance.

KATHY HERBOHN is an Associate Professor in financial accounting in the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland. She has taught at Australian universities for over 20 years in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Kath has a PhD in Financial Accounting from the University of Adelaide and her main research interest is the consequences of accounting regulation for financial statement users and preparers, with a particular focus on income tax and carbon emissions.

Her publications appear in various journals, including Accounting, Organisations and SocietyJournal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Business EthicsBritish Accounting ReviewAccounting and Finance, and Australian Accounting Review.

TRACY ARTIACH is a Senior Lecturer in financial accounting in the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland. She has taught at Australian universities for over 20 years in undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA courses covering on-campus, distance and online delivery modes. In 2009, Tracy received the UQ Business School Postgraduate Teaching Award and in 2014 was ranked 5th in the Unijobs Top 10 QUT Lecturers. Tracy has a PhD from the University of Queensland with research publications in Australian and international academic journals including Accounting, Auditing and Accountability JournalEnergy EconomicsAustralian Journal of ManagementAccounting and Finance and Australian Accounting Review.

Tracy’s teaching and research interests are in the area of financial reporting and accounting standard, including issues relating to disclosure, conservatism, comprehensive income and measurement. She is actively involved in the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Accounting Standards Special Interest Group (SIG 3) and serves on the committee of the SIG.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 16th edition (12 April 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1040 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1488611645

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