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More Than a Numbers Game - A Brief History of Accounting (Paperback)
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More Than a Numbers Game - A Brief History of Accounting (Paperback)
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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 of
corporate fraud. How this happened makes for a good business story.
This book is not another description of accounting scandals.
Instead it offers a history of ideas. Each chapter covers a
controversial topic that emerged over the past century. Historical
background and discussion of people involved give relevance to
concepts discussed. The author shows how economics, finance, law
and business customs contributed to accounting's development. Ideas
presented come from a career spent working with accounting
information.
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