International Accounting and Comparative Financial Reporting Selected Essays

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Presents an edited selection of work written over the past 20 years by a renowned scholar in international accounting, concentrating on comparative international financial reporting. Features discussions on areas including the international origins of bookkeeping, classification of accounting systems, differences in international accounting systems and their effects, European harmonization, and IASC harmonization. Material has been selected on the basis of content which is not merely descriptive, but contains analysis, a proposed model, or the testing of a model. The author is professor of accounting at the University of Reading, UK. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)