Quick answers to your GAAP questions

"The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP" is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives today's busy financial executives the GAAP advice they need in a quick-reference format.

Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because it easily goes anywhere-to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting.Provides succinct answers to common GAAP questionsEasy-to-use Q & A format offers hundreds of explanations supported by a multitude of examples, tables, charts, and ratiosOther titles by Bragg: "Running an Effective Investor Relations Department: A Comprehensive Guide," "Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition, " and "Just-in-Time Accounting, Third Edition"

Convenient and comprehensive, "The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP" is the handy reference you'll turn to again and again for quick answers to your GAAP questions.

Praise for The Firm of the Future

"In The Firm of the Future, Paul Dunn and Ron Baker create an intellectual challenge for firm leaders. They are truly two of the best critical thinkers today. Together they provide the reader with a wealth of thought-provoking ideas. This is an intellectual masterpiece."
–August J. Aquila, PhD
Managing Director, American Express Tax and Business Services
Coauthor, CPAs That Sell and CPA Firm Merger Strategies That Work

"Paul Dunn and Ron Baker have done it again. Living up to their reputation for challenging conventional wisdom, Dunn and Baker present a new paradigm for the professions to understand the dynamic forces at play in the professional practice of the twenty-first century. The Firm of the Future is a brilliant work that adds a new dimension to the old formula for success in a professional service firm. Dunn and Baker clearly lay out a new road map to help leaders understand the differences between leveraging people and leveraging knowledge; between billing for time and pricing for value; and between doing things right and doing the right things. This new paradigm for the firm of the future will help professionals more accurately plan and structure their firm in a way that acknowledges and capitalizes on today’s marketplace, technological opportunities, customer expectations, and human capital needs. Any practice leader who wants to ensure success for their organization should be compelled to read The Firm of the Future."
–Michael Platt
President and CEO, AccountingWEB

Dieses Standardwerk zum Bank-Controlling gibt den State of the Art des Controllingwissens fur Kreditinstitute wieder. Das integrierte Konzept ertragsorientierter Banksteuerung deckt alle wesentlichen Bereiche des Controllings ab.
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"Written by a recognized and well respected authority on penny stocks, Peter Leeds has a complete commitment to ethics, as well as a front-and-center admission that 95% of penny stocks are poor choices, both of which fly in the face of the industry's conventional position. Readers learn to find the 5% that pass proprietary Leeds Analysis, which empowers regular people (even first time investors) to find life-changing investments, which they can buy for small amounts and make surprisingly large returns. Using methods of fundamental analysis honed over many years, Peter Leeds discovers value in companies that others can't see. You'll learn how to look at a firm's future earnings trend, its efficiency compared to competitors, and the soundness of its financial structure. Leeds offers innovative methods of technical analysis to generate long-term investment success."--

Lifetime bzw. Reverse Mortgages sind Kreditprodukte, die in Deutschland bislang am Markt nicht verfugbar sind. In diesem Buch wird die Funktionsweise von Lifetime bzw. Reverse Mortgages sowie ihre Kalkulation am Beispiel des US-amerikanischen HECM-Modells vorgestellt. Eine ausfuhrliche kritische Analyse wird genutzt, um auf Basis eines adjustierten Modells erstmalig Auszahlungsgrossen fur Deutschland zu generieren."

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Stop crunching numbers and start truly serving your clients Integrative Advisory Services is the CPA, accounting professional and bookkeeper's guide to the future. As technology paves the way for increased self-reliance and DIY financial services, much of the traditional data entry tasks of accounting professionals and bookkeepers will be reduced. Yet, nothing can replace the human side of the client-advisor experience and the desire to improve your clients' businesses with financial information. Technology will continue marching on, so accounting professionals must adapt to the changing marketplace to thrive in this new paradigm. This book shows you how to provide the kind of value that technology cannot: human connection. Rather than simply reporting data, today's accounting professionals have an opportunity to take a much more active role in their clients' business by analyzing the story behind the numbers, understanding both operations and finance, and guiding the client toward the outcomes they need. Creating an ongoing relationship throughout the year allows you to be proactive rather than reactive, and help your client's business at a holistic level. Your business owner and CEO clients can get the numbers from the computer too but, they come to you for personalized advice, explanations, and guidance based on their unique situation and financial needs. This book shows you how to take on more of an advisory role and become a critical component of your client's success. * Spend less time crunching numbers and more time advising clients * Become an integral part of the client's decision-making process * Provide real value by clearly communicating financial data analysis * Become the strategic partner your client cannot do without Cloud technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are not the death knell for financial advisors; in fact, they're the opposite they do the number crunching for you, leaving you more time to provide the personal guidance that no computer could. As the financial advisory industry evolves, Integrative Advisory Services is your real-world guide to adapting and thriving.

Master the foundation principles of accounting as Heintz/Parry's leading COLLEGE ACCOUNTING, 23E combines a step-by-step approach, memorable examples and online homework resources to make accounting understandable, regardless of your accounting background or business experience. Known for clarity and supporting technology, this edition focuses on skills you can transfer from the classroom to workplace.You begin with a basic foundation and simple service company examples before advancing to accounting within more challenging merchandising and manufacturing environments. Engaging learning features emphasize the relevance of the skills you're learning and ensure an understandable presentation. To optimize study, CNOWv2 provides interactive support, "Show Me How Videos" from the authors and an adaptive learning path that focuses on areas most challenging to you individually.

Now you can master the most essential topics in financial and managerial accounting today using the unique Integrated Financial Statement Framework in Warren/Farmer's SURVEY OF ACCOUNTING, 9E. Written specifically for readers who have no prior knowledge of accounting, this edition's distinctive framework illustrates the impact of transactions on financial statements without the use of debits and credits. The authors also incorporate Metric Analyses that clearly connect transactions and management decisions to metrics that assess the financial condition and performance of businesses today. Streamlined content throughout this edition and seamlessly integrated CNOWv2 online homework tool offer activities and helpful videos that highlight the importance of transactions and management decisions on businesses today.

The Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review Test Bank provides multiple choice questions for Part 1 of the e Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exam sponsored by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). By using this product students prepare themselves for their forthcoming exam. Each question comes with an explanation of why an answer is correct as well as explanations why an answer is incorrect.

Praise for The Complete CFO Handbook
From Accounting to Accountability

"The office of the CFO in corporations today must blend strategy, investor relations, corporate finance, control, budgeting, risk management, and a host of other key areas of expertise and knowledge. Business education, however, tends to be compartmentalized along functional lines and courses and texts specialize in subsets of these subject areas. Fabozzi, Drake, and Polimeni bridge that yawning gap by providing a comprehensive set of materials that can serve as a nice platform to develop managers tasked with the sourcing and managing of funds within organizations. The Complete CFO Handbook is well written and makes extensive use of examples to illustrate key concepts."
--Jacob Thomas
Williams Brothers Professor of Accounting and Finance
Yale School of Management

The role of the CFO in business has expanded significantly in recent years as companies become more accountable to their stakeholders and regulators and as the sophistication of technology, risk management, financial analysis, and financial records processing has increased.

Filled with numerous examples, The Complete CFO Handbook lives up to its name and provides complete coverage of:

The CFO's role in company communications with company stakeholders

The tools and processes by which a CFO may manage risk, including taxes, theenterprise risk management process, and strategies for transferring risk

Performance evaluation and the fundamentals of the capital budgeting process

Traditional cost accounting topics of product costing and strategic cost management

Every CFO's desktop tool, The Complete CFO Handbook expertlyprovides financial executives with an extensive review of cost accounting as well as the background and tools for managing a company's financial functions.

A practical, hands-on guide to forensic accounting

Careers in forensic accounting are hot-"US News & World Report" recently designated forensic accounting as one of the eight most secure career tracks in America., Forensic accountants work in most major accounting firms and demand for their services is growing with then increasing need for investigations of mergers and acquisitions, tax inquiries, and economic crime. In addition, forensic accountants perform specialized audits, and assist in all kinds of civil litigation, and are often involved in terrorist investigations." Forensic Accounting For Dummies" will track to a course and explain the concepts and methods of forensic accounting.Covers everything a forensic accountant may face, from investigations of mergers and acquisitions to tax inquiries to economic crimeWhat to do if you find or suspect financial fraud in your own organizationDetermining what is fraud and how to investigate

Whether you're a student pursuing a career in forensic accounting or just want to understand how to detect and deal with financial fraud, "Forensic Accounting For Dummies" has you covered.

Clients nearing retirement have some significant challenges to face. And so do their advisers. They can expect to live far longer after they retire. And the problems they expect their advisers to solve are far more complex. The traditional sources of retirement income may be shriveling, but boomers don't intend to downsize their plans. Instead, they're redefining what it means to be retired--as well as what they require of financial advisers. Planners who aren't prepared will be left behind. Those who are will step up to some lucrative and challenging work.

To help get the work done, Harold Evensky and Deena Katz--both veteran problem solvers--have tapped the talents of a range of experts whose breakthrough thinking offers solutions to even the thorniest issues in retirement-income planning: Sustainable withdrawalsLongevity riskEliminating luck as a factor in planningImmediate annuities, reverse mortgages, and viatical and life settlementsStrategies for increasing retirement cash flow

In "Retirement Income Redesigned, " the most-respected names in the industry discuss these issues and a range of others.

Your one indispensable guide to all the Fair Value requirements of IFRS

Acomplete guide to the complex valuation requirements of IFRS, this book includes chapters on theoretical and practical applications, with extensive examples illustrating the required techniques for each application.

Appropriate for anyone involved professionally with finance--managers, accountants, investors, bankers, instructors, and students--this guide draws on a stellar panel of expert contributors from fourteen countries who provide international coverage and insight into a diverse range of topics, including:

Fair Value in implementing IFRS

Market Approach

Income Approach--Capitalization and Discounting Methods

Economic and Industry Conditions

Cost of Capital

Financial Statement Analyses

Impairment Testing

Intellectual Property Rights (patents, copyrights, trademarks)

Projecting Financial Statements

Liabilities

Customer Relationships

Share-based Payment

Plant and Equipment

"Guide to Fair Value Under IFRS" is the first international valuation book of its kind. Fully compliant with the Certified Valuation Analyst curriculum, it provides detailed guidance as to how fair value is to be determined and fills numerous gaps in common understanding of IFRS requirements.

This important volume contains research articles about international accounting issues related to the countries of the Americas and the Far East. The volume comprises of 22 articles, and is divided into five parts. The first part focuses on aspects of standard setting in certain countries, including Australia, Japan, the United States and China. The second part is about disclosure choices of companies. Studies of companies from Japan, Mexico and Taiwan are represented. The third part is concerned with comparisons with US GAAP, with special reference to comparisons between Japanese and US GAAP. Part four is about foreign currency translation by US multinationals, specifically issues related to SFAS No. 52. The final part is about geographic segment reporting by US multinationals.

This book consists of chapters by contributors (well-known professors, practitioners, and consultants from large and well respected money management firms within this area) offering the latest research in the OpRisk area. The chapters highlight how operational risk helps firms survive and prosper by givingreaders the latest, cutting-edge techniques in OpRisk management. Topics discussed include: Basel Accord II, getting ready for the New Basel III, Extreme Value Theory, the new capital requirements and regulations in the banking sector in relation to financial reporting (including developing concepts such as OpRisk Insurance which wasn't a part of the Basel II framework). The book further discussed quantitative and qualitative aspects of OpRisk, as well as fraud and applications to the fund industry.

Sheldon Natenberg is one of the most sought after speakers on the topic of option trading and volatility strategies. This book takes Sheldon's non-technical, carefully crafted presentation style and applies it to a book--one that you'll study and carry around for years as your personal consultant.

Learn about the most vital concepts that define options trading, concepts you'll need to analyze and trade with confidence. In this volume, Sheldon explains the difference between historical volatility, future volatility, and implied volatility. He provides real inspiration and wisdom gleaned from years of trading experience.

Th is book captures the energy of the spoken message direct from the source.Learn about implied volatility and how it is calculatedGain insight into the assumptions driving an options pricing modelMaster the techniques of comparing price to valueRealize the important part that probability plays in estimatingoption prices

Now updated and fully revised, The "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition" helps large or small companies continue to meet the complex internal control reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. Brimming with a wealth of forms and checklists, the new edition helps you get up to speed quickly with SOX 404 requirements and makes the compliance process repeatable, more efficient, and more effective.

Die weltweiten Bestrebungen zur besseren Gestaltung von Regelungen fA1/4r die UnternehmensfA1/4hrung und UnternehmensA1/4berwachung A1/4ben einen bedeutenden Reformeinfluss auf das Gebiet des Controlling aus, das sich in den letzten Jahren auf allen Wissenschafts- und Praxisebenen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre als klar abgegrenztes Konzept etabliert hat.
Wichtige Auswirkungen der aktuellen Corporate-Governance-Diskussion auf das Konzept des Controlling werden in diesem Buch aus unterschiedlichen Blickrichtungen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre untersucht. Es geht darum zu klAren, wie sich vor diesem Hintergrund die Rolle des Controlling aus Sicht der betriebswirtschaftlichen Theorie und Praxis gegenwArtig darstellt und kA1/4nftig weiterentwickeln wird.

Praise for Internal Control Strategies A Mid to Small Business Guide
"Internal Control Strategies is an excellent field guide for the implementation and maintenance of efficient and effective internal control systems. The book provides a practical approach to interpreting guidance from oversight agencies and integrating it with industry practice in a real-world environment. This handbook is an essential tool for managers and professionals going through the day-to-day struggle of managing auditor expectations and permitting business to proceed in the most efficient manner."
-Michael Rodriguez, former senior manager of finance, Qualcomm Incorporated
"Internal Control Strategies is the clearest path forward for middle-market SEC registrants and their independent registered public accounting firms as they streamline the SOX 404 compliance process in 2008 and beyond."
-Stephen G. Austin, MBA, CPA, Managing Firm Partner, Swenson Advisors, LLP, Regional PCAOB Accounting Firm
"Clearly written and practical, Internal Control Strategies is a must-read for every chief audit, finance, or compliance executive."
-Jeff Miller, Partner-in-Charge, Business Risk Services, Squar, Milner, Peterson, Miranda & Williamson, LLP
"As a CFO of small to mid-sized publicly traded and privately held companies, one is usually faced with the challenge of developing and implementing the right levels of internal controls and compliance within the restrictions of limited financial and human resources. Internal Control Strategies presents the relevant topics in a clear and concise manner, allowing the reader to understand the internal control framework and specific underlying requirements quickly. The author's vast experience with SOX compliance ensures a targeted and pragmatic approach for the successful implementation of internal controls. Her recommendations are 'to the point' and eliminate some of the guesswork we all have experienced while working towards SOX compliance."
-Robert S. Stefanovich, Chief Financial Officer, Novalar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
The SEC requires all publicly traded companies to attest to theeffectiveness of their internal controls.
Is your business ready?
Internal Control Strategies: A Mid to Small Business Guide clearly explains the latest PCAOB, SEC, and COSO guidance, providing you with an effective tool and reference guide for successful implementation of sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Extremely knowledgeable and insightful, author Julie Harrer brings practical clarity to this complex topic, leading you step by step in addressing the challenges associated in bringing your business in compliance with SOX.

Die professionelle Handhabung von Unternehmenskrisen durch Kreditinstitute stellt hochste Anforderungen an Bankmitarbeiter. Dieses Buch verknupft in zweiter aktualisierter Auflage alle juristisch und wirtschaftlich relevanten Aspekte zur Krisenprophylaxe, Krisenbewaltigung und Abwicklung - praxisgerecht aufbereitet fur die Anwendung im Tagesgeschaft. Es enthalt leicht einsetzbare Instrumente zur Fruherkennung von Krisen, Konzepte fur erfolgreiche Gegenmassnahmen und Handlungsempfehlungen fur den Insolvenzfall. Eine Vielzahl von Beispielen aus der Praxis der Autoren erhoht die Anschaulichkeit und hilft effektiv, Ausfallrisiken zu reduzieren. Die zweite Auflage ist aktualisiert und erweitert um das Thema Verkauf von Distressed und Non-Performing Loans

Despite the enormous impact of various accounting scandals on the accounting profession, the general malaise amongst the profession more broadly, and the significant legislative and institutional reforms that have taken place as a result, there are still surprisingly few textbooks on accounting ethics. This concise introductory text takes a broad view of ethics and accounting, taking into account contemporary social trends, such as globalization and terrorism. Rather than delineating codes of professional conduct, this text pushes the reader towards an understanding of the nature of ethical dilemmas and the factors that influence the ways in which accountants frame ethical questions. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on developing thinking about the different kinds of ethical questions that could be posed in relation to accounting. The second part focuses more explicitly on accounting practice, exploring the ethical function of accounting in relation to the market economy, ethics in relation to the accounting profession, and the ethics of the international accounting harmonization project. Accounting and Business Ethics is a compact introduction aimed at both students and practitioners who want to understand more about the ethics of accounting.

Invaluable guidance for complete integration of sustainability into reporting and performance management systems

Global businesses are under close scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators, and their diverse stakeholders to focus on sustainability and accept responsibility for their multiple bottom line performance. "Business Sustainability and Accountability" examines business sustainability and accountability reporting and their integration into strategy, governance, risk assessment, performance management and the reporting process. This book also highlights how people, business and resources collaborate in a business sustainability and accountability model.Looks at business sustainability and accountability reporting and assurance and their incorporation into the reporting processFocuses on how the business sustainability and accountability model are impacted by the collaboration of people, business, and resourcesPresents laws, rules, regulations, standards and best practices relevant to business sustainability performance, reporting and assurance

Organizations worldwide recognize the importance of all five EGSEE dimensions of sustainability performance and accountability reporting. However, how to actually assess sustainability risk, implement sustainability reporting, and obtain sustainability assurance remain a major challenge and best practices are evolving. Straightforward and comprehensive "Business Sustainability and Accountability" hits on all of the hottest topics around sustainability including multiple bottom line (EGSEE) performance and reporting, related financial and non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs), business social responsibility and environmental reporting.