Wiley GAAP 2007: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Wiley Gaap)

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Wiley GAAP 2007 delivers the most recent developments and analysis of all generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), restating the original, highly technical pronouncements in easy-to-understand terms and providing battle-tested implementation guidance.

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ACCOUNTING EXCELLENCE.......2007-06-27

We have purchased this for our own use and for the use of family members in the Accounting profession. If you are an accountant, this is a MUST.

Excellent .......2007-05-07

The shipment was timely. The book was in excellent condition. The price was right on time.

Great tool for Staying Current and Developing Staff.......2007-04-01

I have used this series for over ten years and find that it is easy to use and also helpful in developing my staff. It provides them a guideline through the complexities of financial accounting and also a good tool for understanding the Convergence of US GAAP and International Accounting Standards.

Thorough Coverage, Great Price.......2007-03-18

I had been purchasing the Miller GAAP Guide series, but got disgusted when they divided the subjects into 3 or 4 volumes and charged more for each volume than what they used to charge for the single comprehensive book. I decided to give Wiley a try to see if it would meet my needs for about $300 less. So far, it has given a good accounting of itself (pun intended), answering questions on leases, cash flow statements, and auditor reports. Before shelling out the big bucks for Miller or the Prentice Hall books, give Wiley a try. Amazon has the best price that I could find for it, substantially less than the publisher's web site.

Review for the book.......2007-01-12

Such book is the one that I am looking for a long time. In China, I can't find the place to buy such book, and I am very satisfied the service of Amazon. Thanks!

Wiley IFRS 2007: Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards

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Wiley IFRS 2007: Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards
Barry J. Epstein , and Eva K. Jermakowicz
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ASIN: 0471798231

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Your one indispensable guide to IFRS compliance

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), originally known as International Accounting Standards (IAS), have existed since the mid-1970s but have only received significant attention from standard-setters, preparers, and users of financial statements in recent years. The IASB's restructuring in 2001 introduced due process procedures which conveyed added credibility upon the standards it promulgated, while other events, such as the epidemic of financial reporting frauds in the late 1990s and early 2000s helped foster the perception that the diversity of national financial reporting standards needed to be addressed and resolved, to ease the burden of investors and facilitate the international flow of capital. Seminal events included the qualified acceptance of IFRS by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and the mandate for all European Union-chartered publicly-held companies to report consolidated financial statements under IFRS beginning in 2005. As other major nations either formally adopt IFRS (e.g., China) or heavily incorporate them into nominally national GAAP (e.g., Australia), and as several major private sector standard setters (in the US and UK, most notably) have committed to "converge" to IFRS, the importance of IFRS to the future of financial reporting is assured.

Wiley IFRS 2007 is the comprehensive source for guidance in applying IFRS to complex, real-world fact situations, and is equally valuable for preparers, auditors, and users of financial reports. To facilitate the reader's understanding, both examples created to explain particular IFRS requirements, and selections from actual published financial statements, are copiously provided throughout the book, illustrating all key concepts. Also included in this edition are a revised, comprehensive disclosure checklist; an updated, detailed comparison between US GAAP and IFRS, keyed to chapter topics; and discussions of major ongoing IASB projects which may have significant impact on readers' responsibilities over the coming year, including IASB's controversial attempt to define IFRS for smaller companies.

The revised 2007 edition addresses important and complex requirements such as those pertaining to the accounting for:
* Financial instruments
* Loss contingencies
* Business combinations
* Employee benefits
* Foreign currency-based transactions

The 2007 edition continues detailed coverage of all previously issued IAS and IFRS standards and SIC and IFRIC interpretations, including the complex but important financial instruments guidance of IAS 32, IAS 39, and IFRS 7. New examples have been added to every chapter. Other complex areas of financial reporting receiving expansive coverage include:
* Leases
* Revenue recognition
* Employee benefits
* Consolidated financial reporting
* Impairment of assets
* Agriculture
* Insurance
* Extraction of minerals

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I still didnt receive it.......2007-05-14

I still did not receive it.... hopefully it will happen soon

Fast, hassle free.......2007-05-12

The book has arrived on time, in good condition and hassle-free. IFRS 2007 is a nice tool for International Financial Reporting Standards. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested.
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The Interpretation of Financial Statements

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THE GUY WHO TAUGHT WARREN
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Must read for all amateur investors!
Balance sheet analysis from a master at his trade
Great book for the beginning analyst

The Interpretation of Financial Statements
Benjamin Graham , and Spencer B. Meredith
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ASIN: 0887309135

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"All investors, from beginners to old hands, should gain from the use of this guide, as I have."
From the Introduction by Michael F. Price, president, Franklin Mutual Advisors, Inc.

Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer.

The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to interpreting and understanding financial statements. It has long been out of print, but now joins Graham's other masterpieces, The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, as the three priceless keys to understanding Graham and value investing.

The advice he offers in this book is as useful and prescient today as it was sixty years ago. As he writes in the preface, "if you have precise information as to a company's present financial position and its past earnings record, you are better equipped to gauge its future possibilities. And this is the essential function and value of security analysis."

Written just three years after his landmark Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements gets to the heart of the master's ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company's balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company.

This volume is an exact text replica of the first edition of The Interpretation of Financial Statements, published by Harper & Brothers in 1937. Graham's original language has been restored, and readers can be assured that every idea and technique presented here appears exactly as Graham intended.

Highly practical and accessible, it is an essential guide for all business people--and makes the perfect companion volume to Graham's investment masterpiece The Intelligent Investor.

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THE GUY WHO TAUGHT WARREN.......2007-07-09

Graham is the money lord whose writings formed the basis of Warren BUffett's investing tenets. That should be enough of a basis for those pondering buying this book. This guy taught Buffett! On the other hand, the book is a little tedious, and certainly not for the novice investor. I'd say you should be an intermediate level investor, at least, beforing diving into this creaky book. But if you're patient and willing to stay with it, there are certainly some real pearls of investing wisdom between its pages.

For those desiring a more user friendly investing tome try The Millionaire Mind by Standley, the sequel to The Millionaire Next Door. The Millionaire Mind

Review on Interpretation of FS by BGraham.......2007-01-10

It was a basic explanation of the FS suitable for non-accountants. The texts are brief and concise but very informative.

Recommended to lay persons. A classic BG material!

Must read for all amateur investors!.......2006-11-05

After skimming over the pages of Graham's Security Analysis, I decided to buy this smaller book, which was published few years later. I also noticed a recommendation by Joel Greenblatt in his book "You can be a Stock Market Genius".
People with finance/accounting background may not find this book useful. The book focuses more on items mentioned in the balance sheet and income statement. Cash flow statements weren't published during Graham's time. Later on the book gives important guidelines on some financial ratios. It also talks about calculating tangible book value of any company. Although it may not be useful to value technology/internet and asset-light companies, it would still help an investor calculate the real value of a company.
Good value for your money. This concise book is a must read for all amateur investors!

Balance sheet analysis from a master at his trade.......2005-12-19

For the most part I found Graham's book to be very useful. It is a quick and informative read with some insights on how to make heads or tails of what you are looking at with an annual or quarterly report. Although there was some disappointment with the Income Statement explanation (which, honestly isn't terribly hard to understand), as well as his focus on railroad and utility companies (with some focus on bonds and preferred stocks, which I have no interest in), I found this to be very helpful.

On a whole, this book is excellent for the beginning investor. It is a little out of date, but the core information, as well as reading the words of Graham himself, is worth the read. Graham also applies everything he wrote about to a financial statement, showing exactly what to do, which is an invaluable piece of instruction. Definitely recommend, even if it is for the sample balance sheet analysis alone.

Great book for the beginning analyst.......2005-09-06

Very easy to read. Extremely informative concluding chapter where a set of financial statements are analyzed. The sole downside is that some of the jargon and the accounting principles have changed, so updating will be necessary. But this is the place to cut your teeth.

Wiley IFRS 2007: Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards, Book & CD-ROM Set

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Wiley IFRS 2007: Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards, Book & CD-ROM Set
Barry J. Epstein , and Eva K. Jermakowicz
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook and Guide: Practical insights, Case studies, Multiple-choice questions, Illustrations

ASIN: 047179869X

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As the International Accounting Standards Committee makes progress towards widespread acceptance and use of its standards in practices, the need to understand the new standards increases. Wiley IFRS 2007 Complete Set (book + CD ROM) provides the tools for understanding those standards and offers expertise on how to use and implement them.

Financial Statement Analysis: Theory, Application, and Interpretation (The Irwin Series in Undergraduate Accounting)

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Good content, poor communication
objective assessment
A dreadful book. Do not buy it.
Am I the only one with some common sense here?
A challenging accounting text for the student

Financial Statement Analysis: Theory, Application, and Interpretation (The Irwin Series in Undergraduate Accounting)
Leopold A. Bernstein
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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ASIN: 0256102236

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The Sixth Edition of FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS has been completely revised by new co-author John Wild. The three goals of this revision are: 1. Make financial statement analysis relevant to students; 2. Encourage students to think in an evaluative manner; 3. Make the material accessible and interesting to students. The text has been streamlined from twenty-three chapters to a very manageable thirteen chapters. The new design highlights the currency, enhanced pedagogy, and accessibility for students.

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Good content, poor communication.......2000-07-06

I read this book because it was the official textbook for CFA Level 1 test. AIMR later dropped it and returned to White and Sondhi for the year 2000. Personally, I agree.

This should be a fairly good financial analysis book, but because of its uncommunicative wording, it is not appealing indeed. Agree with a reader from England, it is dull.

If the authors add their comments and pour some additional opinion and insights, this book will be much better.

It appears that the book lost its good image (since 1973?) because most of its current readers have read the White & Sondhi's book. If they not read the White & Sondhi before they read this book, they might viewed this book much much better. In my opinion, the readers will get relatively the same knowledge from both books.

objective assessment.......2000-01-01

First published in 1973 and used from inception by the initial CFA program this classic text has been used by many thousands of students and professionalsthrough 6 editions. Please judge this text on its merits and be wary of planted sour grapes comments of a competing text which lost out.

A dreadful book. Do not buy it........1999-09-20

Tried using this turgid volume for 1999 CFA level 1. It is appalling. Technically the authors know their stuff - as one would hope - but they make it as dull as ditchwater. Very hard to read without feeling a pressing need to do something, anything, else. I only give it 1 star because I cannot give it none. AIMR have reverted to the Sondhi & Fried book for L1 and L2. Thank you thank you thank you.

Anyone want to buy a doorstop? One careful owner.

Am I the only one with some common sense here?.......1999-08-22

I was not impressed with this text. Apparently, the folks at AIMR thought it would be a good idea to make guinea pigs out of last year's CFA Level One candidates by forcing this book down our throats. My experience as well as those who worked alongside with me on this book (and numerous others on CFA message boards!) found the text to be as pleasant as eating a cement brick.

To me, the two professors who wrote this book, while very smart, have little or no ability to communicate in clear and simple english the finer points of financial statement analysis. It is a book written by a clique of musty, tome-reading academics, for a similar group of academics. Examples are sparse, obscure, and insufficient. The text is nothing more than a regurgitation of rules, with little attempt at clarification in plain English.

The text can be characterized by its economy of text; outline the point, and let others figure out what it means; move onto the next subject, and be similarly tight-fisted with explanation.

If you want a book that will cost of a lot of money, and one that will likely only line your bookshelf, this is definitely one for you. However, if you want something that you can actually use and understand, then I suggest you pick up Sondhi & Fried's version of "The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements." I opted to buy this text as a companion to the CFA curriculum because of its clarity and generous use of examples. Apparently, because of all the ruckus and distaste for Bernstein & Wild's text last year, AIMR has decided to drop this text from the curriculum, and move back to the tried-and-true Sondhi & Fried text mentioned above.

A challenging accounting text for the student.......1999-02-12

This is the required accounting text for the CFA Level 1 Exam for which I am currently preparing. While many of the other reviews may rate this a great practitioner's reference, I'd like to offer a student's perspective.

I've often needed to re-reference my financial & managerial acct'g text from undergrad days to follow certain sections of this text. AIMR stresses background reading before tackling this text, and they're absolutely right. Bernstein & Wild are no doubt thorough in their work, but don't bother with this text if your not that serious a reader/student.

The questions, problems, exercises, etc. at the end of each section are also thorough, but very few can be traced back to relevant examples in the reading. Unless you purchase the accompanying solutions manual, you're on your own.

The material's level of detail is occasionally abrupt. I've often needed to reread the same sentences several times to reinforce my understanding.

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The most practical, authoritative guide to not-for-profit GAAP

Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the accounting and financial reporting principles used by not-for-profit organizations.

It is written with the needs of the financial statement preparer, user, and attestor in mind. It provides a complete review of the authoritative accounting literature that impacts all types of not-for-profit organizations. At the same time, Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 features many examples and illustrations that will assist the reader in applying authoritative literature to real-life situations. Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 excels in providing financial statement preparers, users, and attestors with the most comprehensive and usable information because of these features:

Easy-to-use information that enables the reader to find needed information quickly
Coverage of accounting principles specifically related to not-for-profit organizations, as well as accounting principles applicable to all types of organizations
Specific coverage of accounting issues for different types of not-for-profit organizations
A comprehensive disclosure checklist that helps financial statement preparers and attestors ensure all disclosures required by GAAP have been considered
Many examples and illustrations that make putting accounting theory into practice an easy task

This 2003 Edition also includes new information covering:

FASB Statement No. 143, which provides guidance for accounting for asset retirement obligations
FASB Statement No. 144, which amends the accounting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets
FASB Statement No. 145, which provides technical corrections to several FASB Statements
FASB Statement No. 146, which provides guidance for accounting for costs associated with exit or disposal activities
Latest information on the FASB's project for accounting for combinations of not-for-profit organizations

Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 strives to be a thorough, reliable reference that you'll use constantly. It's designed to be kept on your desk rather than on your bookshelf.

And don't forget to add Wiley Not-for-Profit Accounting Field Guide 2003 to your library!

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CCH Accounting for Financial Assets and Liabilities (2006) (Interpretations of Fasb Statement : Accounting for Transfers and Sericing of Financial Assets ... of Liabilities - a Replacement of F)
John E. Stewart , James F. Green , and Accounting Research Manager Group
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Accounting for sales, transfers and servicing of financial assets and extinguishments of liabilities can be extremely complex. CCH Accounting for Financial Assets and Liabilities offers comprehensive guidance on accounting for transactions dealing with financial assets, such as receivables, loans and securities. It covers a broad range of transactions, including: Collateralized borrowings Sales and securitizations Servicing of Financial assets Securities lending Transactions Loan syndications and participations Debt extinguishments and refinancing CCH Accounting for Financial Assets and Liabilities also analyzes the FASBs Emerging Issues Task Forces consensus positions, the FASB Special Report: A Guide to Implementation of Statement 140 on Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities and other related literature

Accounting: What the Numbers Mean w/ Student Study Resource: Study Outline/Ready Notes/Solutions to Odd Number Problems&Net Tutor Package

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Seems intentionally confusing
Trish
This text is terrible
What a waste of money
Very confusing text

Accounting: What the Numbers Mean w/ Student Study Resource: Study Outline/Ready Notes/Solutions to Odd Number Problems&Net Tutor Package
David Marshall , Wayne William McManus , and Daniel Viele
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ASIN: 0072478543

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Accounting: What The Numbers Mean, 5e, was written to meet the needs of non-accountants who want a basic understanding of financial statements, and who want to learn how to use accounting information in the financial decision-making process. The reader is introduced to basic concepts supporting financial statements and managerial accounting information. Students learn what financial statements do and do not communicate. A complete annual report is included in the appendix.

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Seems intentionally confusing.......2007-03-25

I'm just starting a class that requires this book. I don't have a financial background. The book is confusing. It seems like the chapters outline basic principles. However, when it comes to doing the homework problems, the text asks things that were poorly covered and/or obscure.

I wish I didn't have to take this class and could get my money back.

Trish.......2006-02-27

I gave this book one star because there are no negative numbers available. The other reviews here are all true! This is a horrible textbook that jumps from subject to subject quickly, gives simplistic examples in the chapter and then throws complex homework problems with new components not explained in the chapter--oh and don't let me forget to mention that the terminology changes from chapter to homework as well! A friend with two masters (business and engineering) became so frustrated trying to help with a problem that he threw his hands up. The terminology kept throwing him off.

If you are supposed to buy this text I suggest you either show these to college administration ahead of time, or take another class. This is so bad I won't even sell mine back. I'm throwing it in my grill to burn.

This text is terrible.......2005-11-16

This book lacks effective structure, or comprehensible structure at least, and the writing is both tedious and meandering. Many of the examples are minimally useful and some are only vaguely associated to the concepts they are meant to support. Useless! This book wasted the time I had taken from my family to study accounting. Why would anyone select this text for a graduate level class???

What a waste of money.......2005-10-17

This textbook is fullllllll of inaccuracies. Additionally, the author gets some sort of sick thrill from giving really simple, insufficient examples in the chapters, and then giving over-the-top difficult questions in the homework. This author also loves to ramble and make this already tedious subject just as incomprehensible as he can possibly make it. My husband is a CFO and could NOT believe how horrible this book is. It's that bad. Students should demand that a different textbook be required.

Very confusing text.......2005-02-09

I found this textbook to be very confusing. It doesn't spend enough time elaborating on each topic before it moves on to the next.

Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Statements

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Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Statements
M. Koen , and J. G. I. Oberholster
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Analysis and interpretation of financial statements
Boris Popoff
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