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Business Ratios and Formulas: A Comprehensive Guide

Business & Money

Bragg, Steven M.

Economics

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"The latest edition goes beyond ho-hum analysis techniques and provides concrete problem solving. The text is sprinkled with real-world problems (and the analytical tools to solve them) that will be familiar to accounting professionals everywhere. A must-have for anyone looking to improve their company's decision making . . . and their own role in it." ―George R. MacEachern President, Grosvenor Financial Services 
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Accounting

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Accounting Best Practices

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Now fully updated and at your fingertips the most practical, authoritative guide to implementing GAAP Get the answers you need to prepare financial statements and keep up to date on the latest FASB requirements. Now fully revised and updated, Wiley GAAP Policies and Procedures, Second Edition is an ideal companion to the Wiley GAAP guide and provides the practical application information essential to ensuring that a company's accounting systems are fully capable of incorporating the most recent GAAP. A concise version of the more detailed GAAP found in the Wiley GAAP guides, Wiley GAAP Policies and Procedures, Second Edition features handy, illustrative decision trees showing how to determine which GAAP ruling to use in a variety of situations, eliminating hours of time wading through detailed GAAP rulings and presents: * New chapters on interim reporting, segment reporting, and accounting changes and correction of errors * Updated content on FAS No. 151, Inventory Costs, FAS No. 153, Exchanges of Non-monetary Assets, FAS No. 154, Accounting Changes and Error Correction, FAS No. 156, Servicing of Financial Assets * Implementation on nineteen newly issued EITFs * Specific accounting policies that comply with GAAP, especially in terms of creating controls that mesh with GAAP * The most common accounting transactions modified to work within GAAP restrictions * Specific controls that allow the maximum level of control over accounting systems while remaining in compliance with GAAP * Templates for forms and reports that can be used in a GAAP-compliant accounting system * Numerous examples of footnotes that can be used to describe GAAP-mandated financial disclosures * Hundreds of GAAP-compliant journal entries for most accounting transactions Wiley GAAP Policies and Procedures, Second Edition is a valuable tool for CFOs, controllers, accounting managers, and general ledger accountants who need to ensure that their company properly treats all types of accounting transactions in accordance with GAAP.

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Test Preparation

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Filled with pragmatic insights, proactive strategies, and best practices, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Second Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook is essential reading for the CFO requiring an overview of strategies, measurement and control systems, financial analysis tools, funding sources, and management improvement tips.

The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual

Finance

The most practical, authoritative guide to GAAP Wiley GAAP 2008 delivers the most recent professional standards developments, in addition to detailed analysis of all generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), explaining the original, highly technical pronouncements in easy-to-understand terms and providing battle-tested, real-world examples and implementation guidance. Wiley GAAP 2008 contains a host of completely updated examples. This annual publication offers expert interpretation and explanation of all accounting principles currently effective or being deliberated in one single book. The authors provide clear, user-friendly guidance on every pronouncement including FASB Technical Bulletins, AcSEC Practice Bulletins, FASB Implementation Guides, AICPA Statements of Position, and AICPA Accounting Interpretations. All pronouncements are explained with relevant terminology and practice-oriented real-world examples. Each chapter is composed of a discussion of perspectives and issue, sources of GAAP, a definition of terms, concepts, rules and examples, and for some chapters, specific appendices. Wiley GAAP 2008 contains a detailed index for easy reference use. Barry J. Epstein (Chicago, IL) is a partner with Russell Novak &amp; Company, LLP, where he specializes in technical consultation on accounting and auditing matters, litigation consulting, and corporate governance. Ralph Nach (Chicago, IL) is a partner in the National Office of Audit and Accounting of McGladrey &amp; Pullen, LLP, where he specializes in technical consultation and continuing professional education. Steven M. Bragg (Centennial, CO) has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst &amp; Young. He is the author of 27 books published by Wiley.

Wiley GAAP 2008: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Epstein, Barry J.

Nach, Ralph

The most practical, authoritative guide to GAAP Wiley GAAP 2008 delivers the most recent professional standards developments, in addition to detailed analysis of all generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), explaining the original, highly technical pronouncements in easy-to-understand terms and providing battle-tested, real-world examples and implementation guidance. Wiley GAAP 2008 contains a host of completely updated examples. This annual publication offers expert interpretation and explanation of all accounting principles currently effective or being deliberated in one single book. The authors provide clear, user-friendly guidance on every pronouncement including FASB Technical Bulletins, AcSEC Practice Bulletins, FASB Implementation Guides, AICPA Statements of Position, and AICPA Accounting Interpretations. All pronouncements are explained with relevant terminology and practice-oriented real-world examples. Each chapter is composed of a discussion of perspectives and issue, sources of GAAP, a definition of terms, concepts, rules and examples, and for some chapters, specific appendices. Wiley GAAP 2008 contains a detailed index for easy reference use. Barry J. Epstein (Chicago, IL) is a partner with Russell Novak & Company, LLP, where he specializes in technical consultation on accounting and auditing matters, litigation consulting, and corporate governance. Ralph Nach (Chicago, IL) is a partner in the National Office of Audit and Accounting of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, where he specializes in technical consultation and continuing professional education. Steven M. Bragg (Centennial, CO) has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young. He is the author of 27 books published by Wiley.

The 2008 Cumulative Supplement contains the following updates: 
<ul>
<li>Discussion of expected commercial value has been added to Chapter 22, since it is an integral part of the decision to expend funds on a research and development project.</li> <li>Given the large proportion of service-related businesses in the economy, we have added a new section to Chapter 23, in which we outline how to conduct profitability analysis for services.</li> <li>We have added substantially to Chapter 25, where we prioritize a number of techniques for improving the efficiency of the payroll process. These improvements cover the areas of timekeeping, self-service portals, the reduction of employee deductions, payroll payments, outsourcing, the use of a captive insurance company to reduce the cost of benefits, and management of the payroll department.</li> <li>In Chapter 26, we have added a discussion of the bullwhip effect on the cash forecast, as well as how it can be mitigated to achieve more accurate cash forecasts.</li> <li>Chapter 27, which covers the planning and control of receivables, has been substantially bolstered with new information about credit policies and procedures, the review and processing of credit applications, granting credit, credit insurance, creating and delivering invoices, collecting cash, and managing the credit and collections staff.</li> <li>Chapter 28, which covers the planning and control of inventory, has been enhanced in a similar manner. It now includes in-depth discussions of the best ways to conduct inventory purchasing, receiving, storage, picking, and shipping.</li> </ul>

Controllership: The Work of the Managerial Accountant, 2008 Cumulative Supplement

Roehl-Anderson, Janice M.

Now in a fifth edition, Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual: A Blueprint for Running an Effective and Efficient Department is a how-to guide on creating an effective and efficient accounting department policies and procedures manual. 
Written by Steven Bragg, the foremost authority in accounting and controllership issues, the new edition includes: <ul>
<li>A new, complimentary Web site providing readers with the foundation for creating or enhancing their accounting department policies and procedures manual</li> <li>More coverage of accounting procedures including inventory, billing, cash receipts, pricing, order entry, credit, collections, sales returns, capital budgeting, cash forecasting, payroll, and closing the books</li> </ul>
Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual is the tool every accounting department needs to regularize and systematize its procedures to match the best in the industry.

Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual: A Blueprint for Running an Effective and Efficient Department

The most practical, authoritative guide to GAAP-updated for 2009 The complexities of financial reporting – which for too many preparers, auditors and users were only revealed through the exposure of scores of occurrences of reporting fraud in recent years – demand a reliable, readable GAAP resource. Wiley GAAP 2009 provides in-depth coverage of the most recent developments and analyses of all U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), explaining the original, highly technical pronouncements in easy-to-understand terms and with copious practical implementation guidance. Unlike other guides, Wiley GAAP 2009 offers complete coverage of all levels of GAAP in a single volume, including EITF issues that have not yet been reduced to consensus, as well as EITF Appendix D discussion matters. Featuring numerous real-world examples, illustrations, and helpful practice hints that are extremely user-friendly, Wiley GAAP 2009 addresses all effective pronouncements, including   FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) FASB Interpretations FASB Technical Bulletins FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts FASB Staff Positions (FSP) Consensuses of the FASB's Emerging Issues Task Force AICPA Statements of Position Accounting Research Bulletins Accounting Principles Board Opinions AICPA Audit and Accounting Guides  As preparers, auditors, and financial statement users demand guidance about accounting procedures they can trust, they know they can depend on the number one GAAP resource, Wiley GAAP 2009-the title that for twenty five years has provided them with the indispensable tools accounting professionals have needed.

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Business Ratios and Formulas: A Comprehensive Guide

Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide

Accounting Best Practices

Wiley GAAP Policies and Procedures

The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual

Wiley GAAP 2008: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Wiley GAAP 2008: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Controllership: The Work of the Managerial Accountant, 2008 Cumulative Supplement

Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual: A Blueprint for Running an Effective and Efficient Department

Wiley GAAP: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 2009