Critical Financial Accounting Problems: Issues and Solutions / Edition 1

by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

Overview

From the complexity of today's business world and its daily transactions has come a proliferation of new accounting standards. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has weighed in with its own pronouncements on the issues, but are they truly comprehensible and applicable? Riahi-Belkaoui explores these questions clearly, with numerous illustrations of the accounting techniques embedded in them, and offers interpretations designed to help accounting professionals deal with these problems in their work. Scholars, researchers, and students in the academic community will also find his analyses helpful and compelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567201161
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/12/1998
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

AHMED RIAHI-BELKAOUI is CBA Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of more than 30 Quorum books and coauthor of several more, he is also a prolific author of articles published in the major scholarly and professional jourbanals of his field, and has served on numerous editorial boards that oversee them.

Table of Contents

Exhibits
Preface
Long-Term Liabilities
Stockholders' Equity: Contributed Capital and Retained Earnings
Investments
Accounting for Income Taxes
Accounting for Pensions
Accounting for Leases
Segmental Reporting
Accounting for Foreign Currency Transactions and Future Contracts
Index

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on literature in the field and US standard-setting bodies, Riahi-Belkaoui (accounting, U. of Illinois-Chicago) identifies new issues in accounting resulting from the growing complexity of the business world and the comprehensive transactions required. He also explains the accounting solutions needed in reporting and disclosure. He covers stockholder's equity, investments, segmental reporting, income taxes, pensions, leases, and foreign currency transactions and futures contracts. Practicing and student accountants might find interest. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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