Success in Corporate Accounting starts here The first Pearson edition of Corporate Accounting in Australia provides comprehensive coverage of the latest company accounting principles, practices and issues in a very accessible manner, while delivering enhanced pedagogy and lecturer support. The aim is to ensure that students don’t feel daunted by the technical detail, but at the same time develop an understanding of the core principles that underpin contemporary professional practice. It has been written to help students succeed in what is traditionally a very demanding subject.

Corporate Accounting in Australia, Fourth Edition, is a textbook designed for one- or two-semester company accounting courses at both under- and postgraduate level.

The second edition of this text retains the accessible writing style and logical, student-oriented chapter format of its forerunner, and has been updated to reflect current developments in legislation and Accounting Standards. The author brings more than 50 years of combined teaching experience to the text.

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 2,0 (B), Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Institute for Corporate Accounting), course: Controlling, 27 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The topic of the paper is the "The development of the accounting standards of the Australian Accounting Standard Board after the end of the G4+1." I want to summarise the recent standardisation progress both international and in the view of Australia, and have a closer look on the Australian accounting environment. What was the G4+1, and why did it disband? What was the Australian reaction on the End of the G4+1. What will the future of international and Australian accounting look like? I have chosen the topic because I am currently staying at the Australian Defence Force Academy and studying at the University of New South Wales. Australia has been one of the major standard setters in the world and has had a deal of influence on international accounting standards, although it is a relatively small economy in the world. Hardly a day passes without problems of financial reporting appearing in the international press. Recent events like the scandals of Enron, Worldcom, and Xerox show the need for reasonable accounting. International accounting is an actual problem to be solved and a future chance for all kinds of businesses. After the introduction I will first present the accounting environment of Australia and its institutions. Then I will discuss the development of international accounting and the G4+1 group and its dissolution. I will have a look on the "Harmonisation Project" and what happens in Australia after the end of the G4+1. At the end I will illustrate the relation between IAS and AAS, and give a conclusion. For my work I used several recent books on Australian financial accounting that are used by institutions across Australia, various Journals on accounting