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020 $a9780470041772 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aKing, Thomas A $q(Thomas A King).
245 10 $aMore Than a Numbers Game$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,$c2006.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThe world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too-little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later. Somehow, over a one-hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler o...
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,$d2006.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1494 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1494 KB).
653 #0 $aBusiness
653 #0 $aFinance
653 #0 $aNonfiction
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
776 1 $cOriginal$z9780470008737
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