Gain an academic and practical understanding of financial accounting and reporting with this comprehensive textbook and learn how to prepare and discuss financial statements in the real world.

Financial Accounting and Reporting, 20^th edition,by Jamie & Barry Elliott provides a comprehensive overview of this demanding subject, equipping you with the knowledge to prepare and critically discuss financial statements.

This edition provides enhanced coverage of financial statements interpretation according to the IFRS, considering all the risk factors that companies and accountants need to tackle on a daily basis. With this in mind, the book offers an extensive analysis of the topics and risks to support your understanding of the issues both on a commercial and technical level.

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• Up-to-date content includes new material on accountability, sustainability, ethical problems, and the future of audit services.
• Includes the latest accounting standards, as set out in the IFRS, IAS and the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, as well as a discussion of the proposed IFRS on General Presentation and Disclosure.

Meeting the ethical, judgmental, and technological challenges as an accountant requires thorough academic and professional preparation. This market-leading text provides the foundation necessary to help you develop the technical and critical skills you need to excel later in your career.

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Jamie Elliott is ädirector who has worked for Deloitte, Huawei, Panasonic and Mott MacDonald. Prior to that, he lectured on undergraduate degree programmes and as Assistant Professor on MBA and Executive Education programmes at the London Business School.

Barry Elliott has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels in England, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has worked for Coopers & Lybrand as a Training Manager in London and National Training Manager in Australia. He has wide experience as an external examiner in higher education at all levels of professional education.

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'Well-structured, informative, and enriched with relevant examples. The coverage of established and contemporary issues within financial accounting and reporting is comprehensive.'

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Gain a comprehensive understanding of financial accounting and reporting, and learn to prepare and discuss financial statements

The 20th edition of Financial Accounting and Reporting by Jamie Elliott and Barry Elliott provides a comprehensive overview of financial accounting and reporting, equipping you with the knowledge töprepare and critically discuss IFRS compliant financial statements, and introducing you to the commercial issues surrounding these. Now with enhanced coverage of interpretation of financial statements, ethical issues and accountability, the authors provide essential knowledge for advancing your studies and career.

Key features

• Exercises of varying difficulty including questions from past exam papers of professional accounting bodies
• Illustrations taken from real-world international company reports and accounts, which have been updated for this edition and help to demonstrate the applications of key principles in the life of real companies
• Up-to-date content including new material on accountability, sustainability, ethical problems and the future of audit services
• Includes the latest accounting standards set out in the IFRS, IAS and the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, plus a discussion of the proposed IFRS on General Presentation and Disclosure
• Improved flow of topics and revised explanations makes the text even easier to follow and use

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Brief contents:

PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING ON A CASH FLOW AND ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING BASIS

PART 2 PREPARATION OF INTERNAL AND PUBLISHED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS