This highly regarded reference is relied on by a considerable part of the accounting profession in their day-to-day work. This handbook is the first place accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information look to find answers to questions on accounting and financial reporting. The new edition will be updated to reflect the new FASB Codification, as well as including expanded coverage of fair value and guidance on developing fair value estimates, fraud risk and exposure, healthcare, and IFRS.

D.R. Carmichael, PhD, CPA, CFE, (Lumberton, PA) is professor of accounting at Baruch College in the City of New York.? Carmichael held the distinguished position, Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards of the Private Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). He is the author of numerous books and articles on accounting and auditing. Most prominent among his consulting clients were the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Lynford Graham, PhD, CPA, CFE (Short Hills, NJ) is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years of public accounting experience in audit practice and in various National Firm policy development groups. He is a Visiting Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University in Waltham MA, a consultant on professional accounting and auditing matters. He was a Partner and the Director of Audit Policy for BDO Seidman, LLP, and was a National Accounting & SEC Consulting Partner for Coopers & Lybrand.

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VOLUME TWO: SPECIAL INDUSTRIES AND SPECIAL TOPICS

22 Personal Financial Statements

George I. Victor, CPA Giambalvo, Stalzer & Company, CPAs,
P.C.

23 Stock-Based Compensation

24 Fair Value Measurement

Mark L. Zyla, CPA/ABV, CFA, ASA Acuitas, Inc.

25 Valuation of Assets, Liabilities, and Nonpublic
Companies

Neil J. Beaton, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFA, ASA Grant Thornton,
LLP

26 Accounting for Derivatives: A Primer

Ira G. Kawaller Kawaller & Co.

27 Pension Plans and Other Postretirement and Postemployment
Benefits

Jason Flynn, FSA, MAAA Deloitte Consulting LLP Timothy Geddes,
FSA, MAAA Deloitte Consulting LLP Daniel Thomas, EA, MAAA Deloitte
Consulting LLP

28 Not-for-Profit Organizations

Richard F. Larkin, CPA BDO USA, LLP

29 Cost-Volume-Revenue Analysis for Nonprofit
Organizations

JAE K. SHIM, PhD California State University, Long Beach

30 Financial Institutions

Zabihollah Zabi Rezaee, PhD, CPA, CMA, CIA, CGFM, CFE, CSOXP,
CGRCP, CGOVP The University of Memphis

31 Real Estate and Construction

Benedetto Bongiorno, CPA, CRE Natural Decision Systems,
Inc

32 Federal Government Accounting, Budgeting, and Auditing

David M. Zavada, CPA, MPA Partner, Kearney & Company

33 State and Local Government Accounting

Cynthia Pon, CPA Macias Gini O'Connell LLP Richard A.
Green, CPA Macias Gini O'Connell LLP Caroline H. Walsh, CPA
Macias Gini O'Connell LLP

34 Oil, Gas, and Other Natural Resources

Bill Godshall, CPA Frazier & Deeter, LLC

35 Health Care Organizations

Martha Garner, CPA PwC LLP

36 Regulated Utilities

Darin W. Kempke, CPA KPMG Partner, Power and Utility Audit
Sector Leader

37 Producers or Distributors of Films

Francis E. Scheuerell, Jr., CPA Navigant Consulting

38 Estates and Trusts

Philip M. Herr, JD, CPA, PFS AXA Equitable Life Insurance
Company Elizabeth Lindsay-Ochoa, JD, LLM (Taxation) AXA Equitable
Life Insurance Company

39 Bankruptcy

Grant W. Newton, PhD, CPA, CIRA Pepperdine University

40 Detecting Fraud

W. Steve Albrecht Brigham Young University Conan C. Albrecht
Brigham Young University

41 Forensic Accounting in Litigation Consulting Services,
Investigations, and Compliance Matters

Yogesh Bahl, CPA, MBA Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Frank Hydoski, PhD Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

42 Introduction to E-Discovery

Jack Moorman PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Greg Schaffer
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

43 Financial Expert Witness Challenges and Exclusions: Results
and Trends in Federal and State Cases Since Kumho Tire

Lawrence F. Ranallo, CPA PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Keith R.
Ugone, PhD Analysis Group, Inc.

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