Accounting

Offering concise, user-friendly coverage of core topics, this essential text provides a strong foundation for courses in Accounting Information Systems and gives instructors the flexibility they need to meet their individual course objectives. This text - now with more color! - is an excellent, stand-alone resource for a shorter course in accounting information systems, or the prefect foundation textbook for a longer in which other materials are integrated - such as computer projects, casebooks, and readings.

Newly updated and revised, this Tenth Edition has been reorganized to strengthen its flexibility as well as redesigned to promote its flexibility as well as redesigned to promote its accessibility. The reorganized chapter order moves coverage of databases to the end, which better allows for coverage at any point during the course. It also reduces systems chapters from three to one, this material is often covered in other courses.

New in the Tenth Edition
* Expanded coverage of Sarbanes-Oxley, Cobit Version 4, XBRL, and of risk and governance.
* Test yourself multiple choice questions a the end of each chapter.
* A new database chapter provides hands-on instruction in Microsoft Access.
* Updated Case-in-Point features show the business context of the text material.

The fully updated International Edition of Elliott and Elliott's market-leading Financial Accounting and Reporting uses the latest International Accounting Standards as its framework. It offers a unique balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage with up-to-date practical applications and illustrations taken from real world international company reports and accounts. The text is ideal for financial accounting, reporting and analysis modules on second and final year undergraduate courses in accounting, business studies and combined studies. It is also suitable for MBA courses, specialist MSc courses and professional courses preparing students for accountancy examinations. application of international standards worldwide; new pedagogical features including key points, overviews, chapter objectives and learning outcomes, summaries and further questions; widespread inclusion of contemporary international case studies; attractive new two-colour design; illustrations taken from real published accounts to demonstrate the practical application and limitations of the subject; excellent range of review questions for use in seminars or for revision purposes; exercises of varying difficulty with solutions to selected exercises provided at the back of the book; extensive references included at the end of each chapter; and is supported by an Instructor's Manual containing fully worked solutions to all exercises in the book. Barry Elliott is a training consultant. He has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional level in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. He has wide experience as an external examiner both in higher education and at all levels of professional education. Jamie Elliott is a Director with Deloitte & Touche. programmes and as an assistant professor on MBA and executive programmes at the London Business School.

"What consistently ranks as one of the top career opportunities in business? What frequently rates among the most popular majors on campus? What was the undergraduate degree chosen by Nike founder Phil Knight, Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank, former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Thomas Pickard, and numerous members of Congress? Accounting.1 Why did these people choose accounting? They wanted to understand what was happening financially to their organizations. Accounting is the financial information system that provides these insights. In short, to understand your organization, you have to know the numbers. Accounting consists of three basic activities-it identifies, records, and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested users. Let's take a closer look at these three activities"--