Financial Statement Analysis

An International Perspective

Peter Walton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

512 Seiten

2000 | New edition
Cengage Learning EMEA (Verlag)
978-1-86152-487-4 (ISBN)

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Places the practice of accounting in its international context through the examination of the financial statements and corporate reports of major, multinational corporations. This book includes a wealth of real-world examples with actual statements from multinational companies to excerpts from financial journalism.

Financial Statement Analysis places the practice of accounting in its international context through the examination of the financial statements and corporate reports of major, multinational corporations. To facilitate a better understanding of the interactions between accounting and the business environment, this text looks at the wider operational context, examining accounting’s relationship to the business environment both inside and outside the company. Financial Statement Analysis includes a wealth of real-world examples with actual statements from multinational companies to excerpts from financial journalism.

Peter Walton is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at The Open University and at the ESSEC Business School. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant and worked for British and French multinationals before becoming a researcher and journalist. He has taught in France, Switzerland, the USA and the UK.

PART 1: THE ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT.
1. Financial Reporting and Regulation.
2. Accounting and Accountants.
PART 2: BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
3. Measurement Concepts and the Balance Sheet Equation.
4. Accruals Accounting.
5. Fixed Assets and Depreciation.
6. Refining the Database and Making Distributions.
7. Making Financial Statements.
PART 3: INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS.
8. A Framework for Interpretation.
9. Financial Statement Analysis I.
10. Cash Flow Statements.
PART 4: THE ACCOUNTS OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES.
11. The Annual Report.
12. Group Accounts.
13. Foreign Operations.
14. Issues in Financial Reporting by Multinationals.
15. International Taxation.
16. Auditing and Corporate Governance.
PART 5: ADVANCED FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS.
17. Financial Statement Analysis II.
18. Accounting Values.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2000
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 17 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10	1-86152-487-0 / 1861524870
ISBN-13	978-1-86152-487-4 / 9781861524874
Zustand	Neuware