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Accounting is an economic information system, and can be thought of
as the language of business. Accounting principles are created,
developed, or decreed and are supported or justified by intuition,
authority, and acceptability. Managers have alternatives in their
accounting choices; the decision are political, and trade-offs will
be made. Accounting information provides individuals, both inside
and outside a firm, with a starting point to understand and
evaluate the key drivers of a firm, its financial position, and
performance. If you are managing a firm, investing in a firm,
lending to a firm, or even working for a firm, you should be able
to read the firm's financial statements and ask questions based on
those statements. This book examines some of the more advanced
topics in accounting. As such, it assumes the reader already has
some familiarity with basic accounting. (A related book covering
the basics is Accounting for Fun and Profit: A Guide to
Understanding Financial Statements). The book explains how the user
of financial statement should interpret advanced accounting
techniques presented, and helps the user conduct in-depth analysis
of annual reports. The author will show you that accounting, even
the advanced topics, can be informative and fun.
Accounting is an economic information system, and can be thought of
as the language of business. Accounting principles cannot be
discovered; they are created, developed, or decreed and are
supported or justified by intuition, authority, and acceptability.
Managers have alternatives in their accounting choices; the
decisions are political, and trade-offs will be made. Accounting
information provides individuals, both inside and outside a firm,
with a starting point to understand and evaluate the key drivers of
a firm, its financial position, and performance. If you are
managing a firm, investing in a firm, lending to a firm, or even
working for a firm, you should be able to read the firm's financial
statements and ask questions based on those statements. This book
explains the fundamentals of financial statements. It is designed
and meant to explain the language of accounting to non-accountants
(i.e., those who hire accountants). After reading this book, you
should be able to pick up an annual report, read it, understand
much of it, and have a solid foundation to start asking questions
about the firm. This book will show you that accounting can be
informative and fun!
This collection is the first comprehensive selection of readings
focusing on corporate bankruptcy. Its main purpose is to explore
the nature and efficiency of corporate reorganization using
interdisciplinary approaches drawn from law, economics, business,
and finance. Substantive areas covered include the role of credit,
directors' implicit bargains, nonbargaining features of bankruptcy,
workouts of agreements, alternatives to bankruptcy, and proceedings
in countries other than the United States, including the United
Kingdom, Europe, and Japan. The editors' introductions guide
readers through each of the six parts, comprised of edited versions
of papers combined with editorial notes to reduce the time required
to absorb key ideas.
This collection is the first comprehensive selection of readings focusing on corporate bankruptcy. Its main purpose is to explore the nature and efficiency of corporate reorganization using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from law, economics, business, and finance. Substantive areas covered include the role of credit, creditors' implicit bargains, nonbargaining features of bankruptcy, workouts of agreements, alternatives to bankruptcy, and proceedings in countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan. The Honorable Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, offers a foreword to the collection.
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