Accountants' Handbook, Special Industries and Special Topics

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 5, 2012 - Business & Economics - 864 pages
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.
 

Contents

PERSONAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
22-2
c Value of Written Representations
22-16
Accounting for Income Taxes
22-17
Personal Financial Statements
22-22
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL TOPICS
24-1
Shareholders Equity
24-19
Financial Accounting Standards Board
25-1
h A Real Challenge Is Valuing
25-29
Federal Government Accounting Budgeting and Auditing
31-57
State and Local Government Accounting
31-79
Oil Gas and Other Natural Resources
31-162
Health Care Organizations
35-1
Regulated Utilities
35-72
Navigant Consulting
35-105
Estates and Trusts
38-1
Bankruptcy
38-39

A Primer
25-31
Pension Plans and Other Postretirement and Postemployment Benefits
25-43
BDO USA
25-97
CostVolumeRevenue Analysis for Nonprofit Organizations
29-1
Management Discussion and Analysis
29-6
Financial Institutions
29-17
Partnerships and Joint Ventures
29-56
i Real Estate
29-77
Real Estate and Construction
31-1
i Location Location Location 13
31-13
Detecting Fraud
38-77
Forensic Accounting in Litigation Consulting Services Investigations
38-93
Introduction to EDiscovery
38-122
PricewaterhouseCoopers
43-1
Introduction to Internal Control Assessment and Reporting
43-7
Index
1
Consolidation Translation and the Equity Method
9
Prospective Financial Statements
21
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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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