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Learn how to think like an auditor with CONTEMPORARY AUDITING: REAL ISSUES AND CASES! With examples pulled exclusively from real-world auditing cases, you'll quickly learn how to recognize and understand the critical factors and circumstances that determine the outcome of audits. Studying audits within the text provides you with the information about the true nature of the work environment and work roles of independent auditors.
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Questions concerning book.......2004-05-27
Do the case studies have questions and answers for students to look at?
Excellent Presentation of an Array of Stinking Cases.......1999-10-23
I can't say anything more about this book. The author's presentation skills and overall arrangements are marvelous. It's not only informative to read it, but extremely fun! Though my firm specializes in securities, internal control, and compliance areas, I still regularly raise those issues highlighted in this book to my colleagues over email or during conference. We all benefit from it a lot.
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This easy-to-read accounting theory text contains two distinct, but integrated parts. Part One focuses on two interwoven topics: accounting theory formulation and standard setting in a chronological format. This section analyzes the major historical efforts attempted in the development of an accounting theory. The Conceptual Framework project is studied, and the FASB and how it influences current standard setting is examined. Part Two covers contemporary financial reporting issues as they relate to the FASB's Conceptual Framework. Controversial accounting areas, such as cash flows, accounting for pensions, post-employment benefits and stock options, are studied within the context of the definitions of assets and liabilities provided by the Conceptual Framework. Interesting and challenging cases provide the reader with practical experience in applying accounting theory.
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Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)
Paul Rosenfield
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This book analyzes contemporary financial accounting. In doing so it provides a user-oriented guide to the salient issues which affect all aspects of financial accounting.
Written by a former Secretary General of the International Accounting Standards Committee, practitioners and accounting scholars alike will find this volume to be an extremely good addition to their libraries.
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Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting
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Over the past decade, management accounting has seen changes not just within existing domains of the field but has also witnessed extensions outside its established realms of activity. Wider systemic transformations including changes in political regimes, novel conceptions of management controls, the impact of globalising forces on commercial affairs, shifts in notions of effective knowledge management, governance and ethics, and technological advances, including the rise of broadband, have all impacted management accounting endeavours. The field is as fast changing as it has ever been. This book captures key facets of current thoughts, concerns and issues in management accounting. The book consists of eighteen chapters written by distinguished scholars in the field. The topic areas covered in some chapters reflect established management accounting topics such as budgeting and responsibility accounting, contract theory analysis, contingency frameworks, performance measurement systems and strategic cost management which are considered within the perspective of changing concerns facing modern organizations and present day management thought. Other chapters deal with newly emerging concerns in management accounting, including network relations, integrated cost management systems, knowledge management pursuits, environmental management accounting and accounting and digitisation. Each chapter encompasses discussions of basic premises complemented by insights from modern day practice, research and thought. This makes the book particularly suitable for students in intermediate, advanced and executive level courses in management accounting. It also provides an extensive corpus of discussions which will inform those in practice. Readers interested in gaining direct insights into specialised management accounting areas will find this book to be an especially valuable reference source.
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Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues Concepts and Practice
Stefan Schaltegger , and
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Contemporary Accounting Issues
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Contemporary Accounting Issues in China: An Analytical Approach
Kin Cheung Liu , and
Wei-Guo Zhang
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In the wake of Chinese economic reforms, China has adopted new accounting and financial standards based on Western models. This is the first book to consider the implications of those standards, and show how accounting and financial reporting are actually practiced in China today.The first part of this book discusses critical issues of accounting and financial reporting arising from China's new accounting standards and securities markets. Important problems of asset revaluation are covered, and the authors take a carefully consider the usefulness of company reports. Next, selected management accounting issues are covered in depth. The book focuses on performance evaluation practices of state-owned enterprises and Chinese-foreign joint ventures, analyzing how short-term managerial behavior is shaped and how that behavior impacts efficiency. Finally, the authors assess the extent of manipulation of accounting data in China, compared with Hong Kong.For all financial professionals, academics, researchers and students interested in the Chinese economy.
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Right to the point!.......2000-04-10
This book was perfect for my International Accounting research paper. It had a brief history of past accounting practices and a look at some of the present as well as hopes for the future. This book has great educational value!
Right to the point!.......2000-04-10
This book was perfect for my International Accounting research paper. It had a brief history of past accounting practices and a look at some of the present as well as hopes for the future. This book has great educational value!
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Contemporary Engineering Economics Case Studies
Chan S. Park
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In his signature, outspoken style, D'Alessandro offers concrete advice on building a reputation that commands respect, coping with office politics, and surviving the less-than-sane aspects of any organization. He explains why only 20 percent of the people in a given corporation are truly valuable to the organization, demonstrates the right way to polish the boss's image and prevent the boss from tarnishing the reader's, and provides valuable lessons in the etiquette of reputation building.
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"FROM THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BRAND WARFARE A genuine winner shows you how to stand out from the crowd As the youngest-ever CEO of John Hancock Financial Services and the bestselling author of Brand Warfare, David D'Alessandro knows plenty about breaking away from the pack. In Career Warfare, this ultimate insider tells the true story of how he learned the unwritten rules of corporate ladder climbing. In his signature, outspoken style, D'Alessandro offers concrete advice on building a reputation that commands respect, coping with office politics, and surviving the less-than-sane aspects of any organization. He explains why only 20 percent of the people in a given corporation are truly valuable to the organization, demonstrates the right way to polish the boss's image and prevent the boss from tarnishing the reader's, and provides valuable lessons in the etiquette of reputation building. Through engaging, often-hilarious stories drawn from his own dramatic climb to the top, David D'Alessandro speaks to success-oriented readers at every level and explains: - How to make people want to take a chance on them - How to gain and keep a great reputation - Why success will not proceed in a rational manner - Why hard work and accomplishment aren't enough - What character has to do with it "
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The Ultimate Career Guide (really!).......2007-06-01
This is one of those few business books that you can read more than once. D'Alessandro makes one key point with this book - you don't get to the top by being great, but by not screwing up. This point is made through countless stories that he tells about his career.
D'Alessandro is not arrogant, like many (if not most) other business authors. Rather, he is hilarious. I lost count at how many times I laughed so hard, interrupted my wife, and related a story from this book. This is what I want out of a career guide - a book that conveys it's point so well, and in many different ways, that you can't help but to remember it.
If you work in the real world, and need a career guide (trust me, you do), then this book is for you. I have recommended it to others several times, and have been thanked often for the referrals.
Great advice for anyone.......2007-05-12
I have read this book twice and have also recommended it for Managers working on my team as well. David D'Alessandro presents great advice for anyone in any business environment about building and maintaining your reputation or brand. The person's on my team who have read it are also big fans. I recommend this book for anyone in business - especially anyone out there who subscribes to the "I am the way I am, and my colleagues need to learn to accept me for who I am" way of thinking - I would say this one is especially for you. No matter where or when, you are constantly being evaluated by your co-workers, higher ups, and those that work for you. This book helps make sure you understand that reality, and provides context and serious, useful advice on how you can leverage the environment to your advantage. If you are just entering the marketplace - you should absolutely buy it now. I would recommend for anyone who has been around for a while as well. I read a lot of business books - I have always found this one valuable and am always recommending or buying it for members of my organization.
Not quite Machiavelli, but good counsel for the aspiring business prince.......2007-01-21
Definitely worth reading for the war stories alone! But I've never quite understood the urge to publish in people who by all evidence were focused above all on personal power and financial success. D'Alessandro strenuously maintains that the ambitious executive's aim should always be the good of the organization and those involved with it, but it's hard to see who really benefited from the de-mutualization of John Hancock, over which he presided, other than John Hancock executives: same could be said of the later sale of the company to Manulife Financial (oddly, also run by a D. D'Alessandro, no relation). At least, such is the general view, especially among those who were pink-slipped.
Still, although we're not getting the whole story of a career here - it's a how-to, not a history - there is certainly a pleasing openness in describing many events and relationships, and the author's rise from that grocery store in Utica. He is naturally interested in the stories of other famous names in business and has found some great anecdotes: for instance, about John H. Patterson the founder of NCR: he had, quoting Mark Bernstein, "an absolute genius for firing people," including the executive who discovered he was fired when he found his office furniture on the NCR front lawn - in flames. . . But lesser mortals also are noteworthy, including the interviewee in the Chinese restaurant who thought the slim, tortilla-like moo shu pancake was a hot towel and slapped it on her face...
Good cautionary tales about "loose lips sink ships," such as the consultants who lost a multi-million dollar engagement when some of their private discussions came to the wrong (or right) ears...I'm pretty sure I know which firm that was, having (full disclosure!) been a computer consultant at John Hancock, and later Manulife, for several years.
And I really like his classification of meetings into three types: Staff, Get-something-done, and Combat!
D'Alessandro is rightly proud of his Italian ancestry (at least we have one thing in common!), but does not come over as a total Machiavelli. However, there is a certain ruthlessness: he is not at all the forgiving type. The word "Vendetta" springs irresistibly to mind. In fact, one section's heading makes an explicit reference - "You can enjoy a dish best served cold."
All in all, a pretty good read, and I'm sure very useful to the young aspiring executive...not exactly for me, as I never headed that way, being more of a technician/practitioner.
Building Your Career Like Building the Coke Brand.......2006-11-01
A great book on career management! It covers both stratetic and tactical parts of career management by elaborating its core theme: build your career success like build a shining brand.
It was already exciting enough for me to realize that I can apply whatever I learned in marketing class to my career. And I was further impressed by the rich real world anectodal stories this book uses to support each of its rules.
In additional to what has been already covered by other reviewers, I want to highlight three places where this book excels.
First, a great job in clarifying the myth behind any promotion decision.
The truth is that most decisions are made on impression base, rather than based on thorough and vigorous research, analysis or comparison. (So it is highly important to build and protect your brand. )The author has done a great job on this point and reinforces it again later in the book to deepen your understanding. Starting from how the promotion decision is made, the book then puts forth its most important point: a promotion comes from a good reputation, which comes from consistent excellent performance plus careful and meticulous brand management. As the veteran in brand management and a long-time "player" in this career game, the author did an excellent job in teaching how to manage your own brand. And here is a really small but good example. The author tells us not to spend much time chatting with bosses in cocktail party--just say hi and move on. The reason is that in this kind of chatting, you have higher risk by damaging your brand and very low chance by winning any positive points.
Counterintuitive but make a lot of sense!
I don't like the chapter of how to manage your brand after you become a CEO.It seems to be short and could have been put into another book. Maybe it is just me--being a small potato not worrying about what will happen after becoming a CEO.
Nevertheless, highly recommended!
Good Book .......2006-01-27
In my opinion, it is a good book on exceling in a corporate world. The 10 steps provided are very profound and some actually gave me "light-bulb" moments!
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The best-selling author and CEO of Hohn Hancock offers concrete advice on building a reputation that commands respect, coping with office politics, and surviving the less-than-sane aspects of any organization.
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Glad I read it. Good common-sense in an artificial world........2006-02-19
PROS:
(1) Excellent concept (your personal Brand).
(2) Most of the value of the entire book can be received by reading the Introduction and the first Chapter (Disc 1).
CONS:
(1) The writer spends a little TOO much time characterizing one's Brand as a set of responses to certain situations, rather than being substantially a reflection who you are.
VERY GLAD I READ THIS BOOK:
In the past I have thought about my "reputation" in businss, but that concept is very subjective, and now I realize it is also incomplete. Re-framing my business-reputation as a Brand helped me realize that to a small extent the rules of business warrant special treatment, and just doing my job well is not the only issue. To a limited extent I *do* need to wear a well-chosen mask in order to play the business game - not good news, not bad news, just true.
A reader should be careful to balance this book with, say, Stephen Covey books, which reinforce that who you are as a person is a large part of your "Brand". Reading only Career Warfare might convince you that your Brand can be molded any way you want, by just saying the right things at the right time, which will certainly not work in the long term!
Reader's style (for audio version): Good
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