Now in its 14th edition, Nobes and Parker's Comparative International Accounting is a comprehensive and coherent text on international financial reporting. It is primarily designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in comparative and international aspects of financial reporting. The book explores the conceptual and contextual found.

Now in its seventh edition, this successful text offers a comprehensive yet coherent examination of the international dimensions of financial accounting and reporting. Most of the chapters are written by the two main authors, but there are several contributions from leading international practitioners and academics.Part I gives an overview of the causes and nature of international differences in accounting and financial reporting.Part II examines individual countries and includes studies of the UK, the US, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Central and eastern Europe and China. Part III takes a comparative look at four major financial reporting issues. Part IV analyses four issues of international analysis and management.The text has been thoroughly revised and updated. It retains the structure of the last edition but incorporates the following new features: New chapters on International Accounting Standards (Chapter 6) and Liabilities (Chapter 15). The structure and content of the main country chapters have been revised and standardized to present a more cohesive comparison. Each country chapter contains a list of differences from international standards. Learning objectives have been introduced at the start of each chapter and extra questions have been added to several chapters. "Comparative International Accounting"is primarily intended for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level taking courses in comparative and international accounting. Christopher Nobes is PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting at the University of Reading, UK. He isVice-Chairman of the accountancy committee of the Federation des Experts Comptables Europeens and was a UK representative on the board of the IASC from 1993 to 2001. Robert Parker is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Exeter, UK. He was formerly editor of the journal Accounting and Business Research.

This text presents international accounting within the context of managing multinational enterprises, focusing on business strategies and how accounting applies to these strategies. This unique approach gives students the opportunity to learn about international accounting from a perspective similar to what they will experience in the business world. The book explains the key factors that influence accounting standards and practices in different countires, and how those factors impact the convergence of standards worldwide. Particular emphasis is given to culture and its unique contribution to accounting standards and practices worldwide. The book focuses on the needs of users of financial and accounting information across borders with the aim of enhancing their understanding of how to use information and make more informed decisions in an increasingly complex and dynamic international business environment.

In recent years there have been a number of significant reforms in local government accounting practices around the world. While the specific reasons for these changes vary, a common factor is the increasing need for governments to measure the efficacy and efficiency of their performance. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than at the local government level. This book aims to give a comparative international perspective on local government accounting innovations, and offers specific cases involving different economic, political and cultural conditions. Countries receiving extended treatment include Belgium, China, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Together, the essays offer a state-of-the-art take on these issues and identify key issues for future research.

This book provides a historical study of the body that sets International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) - the basis for financial reporting. It provides extensive background information to help practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and educators form a deeper understanding of the people, the forces, and events that have shaped IFRSs.

International Accounting Harmonization analyzes the differences between national accounting rules and international accounting methods, showing that when firms adopt international accounting standards they achieve significantly higher positive coefficients compared with firms that only take on local accounting strategies.