Financial Accounting in an Economic Context

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A valuable resource for any business professional, this book shows how performance metrics available from the financial statements, shareholder value creation, and the firm's market value are all tied together. It also explores earnings management, including the use of discretion by management in the preparation of the financial statements to cast a favorable picture of the financial performance and condition of the firm. Readers will then delve more deeply into the methods used to account for operating, investing, and financing transactions.Written by authorities in Accounting, Financial Accounting in an Economic Context by Jamie Pratt provides an excellent foundation for Accounting studies. Jamie Pratt??™s style is excellently suited towards Accounting studies, and will teach students the material clearly without overcomplicating the subject. What??™s more, the text is available in the Hardcover format shown above (ISBN 9780470128824), as well as a number of other formats. As of May 2008, this revision raises the bar for Financial Accounting in an Economic Context??™s high standard of excellence, making sure that it stays one of the foremost Accounting studies textbooks.