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Issues in Financial Accounting combines the theoretical with practical application to address key concepts and issues in financial accounting.
Updated to reflect changes to the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) standards and interpretations (up to the end of September 2016), changes to this edition have focused on accounting content and updates.
Real world examples balanced with a breadth and depth of content ensures students develop a critical understanding of the topics in financial accounting.
- Part 1 Institutional setting and the conceptual framework
- Chapter 1 Institutional arrangements for setting accounting standards in Australia
- Chapter 2 The conceptual framework: Purpose, reporting entity, the objective of financial reporting, and qualitative characteristics
- Chapter 3 The conceptual framework: Definition, recognition and measurement of the elements in general purpose financial statements
- Chapter 4 Fair value measurement
- Chapter 5 The choice of accounting methods
- Part 2 The statement of financial position
- Chapter 6 The statement of financial position: An overview
- Chapter 7 Accounting for current assets
- Chapter 8 Accounting for property, plant and equipment
- Chapter 9 Accounting for company income tax
- Chapter 10 Accounting for intangible assets
- Chapter 11 Accounting for leases
- Chapter 12 Accounting for employee benefits
- Chapter 13 Accounting for financial instruments
- Part 3 The statement of comprehensive income and further financial reporting issues
- Chapter 14 The statement of comprehensive income
- Chapter 15 Revenue
- Chapter 16 The statement of cash flows
- Chapter 17 Financial reporting: Segment reporting and highlights statements
- Chapter 18 Further financial reporting issues
- Part 4 Industry accounting standards
- Chapter 19 Accounting for the extractive industries
- Chapter 20 Accounting for agricultural activity
- Chapter 21 Accounting for superannuation entities
- Chapter 22 Accounting for insurance
- Part 5 International accounting
- Chapter 23 International accounting standards, harmonisation and convergence
- Chapter 24 Foreign currency translation
- Part 6 Accounting and the community
- Chapter 25 Accounting for corporate social responsibilities
- Chapter 26 Ethics in accounting
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