Focuses On The Theory Part Of Advanced Accounting. Covers Theories Of Accounting, Accounting Standards, Measurement Of Income, Charging Prices, Human Resource Accounting, Social Responsiblity Accounting, Mechanized Accounting, Valuation Of Shares And Reporting. In Question-Answer Format, Useful For Mcom Students.

Accounting is the discipline with the oldest historical culture, being the first to be recognized by humanity when Adam and Eve were made to account for what they did in paradise. It is also the only discipline that will come into play in the Hereafter, where everybody would be raised up as an accountant - to account for all they have done during their life time on earth! Accounting is a service-providing discipline, with a rich theoretical background, which makes available information (especially financial) to guide various decision-making processes. Business owners, creditors, managers, prospective investors, government and its agencies, employees and even the general public seek accounting information to guide them when taking various informed decisions about reporting entities and the environment within which they operate. This book addresses the historical accounting culture, its theories as well as its practices. It is made up of fifteen chapters, covering various historical, theoretical and practical aspects of Accounting, ranging from accounting standardization to financial reporting. The book is an attempt to address some of the lacunae in advanced accounting issues, both in theory and in practice. Students of advanced accounting theory and practice at the professional and academic levels in Universities, Polytechnics and Professional Institutes would find the book an essential companion.

Description: Intended primarily as a text for the undergraduate students of commerce, this book gives a comprehensive and indepth analysis of the concepts and principles underlying financial accounting. It also introduces the student to the tools and techniques essential for tackling real-life problems. The text discusses in detail final accounts, branch accounting, hire-purchase and instalment sales, partnership accounts, stock valuations, as well as other company accounts. The book would be of considerable help to the readers in preparing financial statements and would equip them with the necessary knowledge in understanding the financial performance and the financial position of an organization and communicate these to its stakeholders. Besides students of commerce, those appearing for various professional examinations such as CA and ICWA foundation courses should find this student-friendly and accessible book extremely useful.

With this text students will see that there is more than one side to every accounting issue, that today's accounting profession has its roots in a history worth knowing, and that there is an inextricable link between accounting theory and actual procedures. Accounting Theory clearly and systematically looks at the pros and cons of accounting issues, discussing the theory and procedures. This second edition has four new chapters covering pensions and deferred income tax, business combinations and consolidated financial statements, and has been updated to cover all new FASB Statements to May 1989.

Accounting carries with its history a vast number of ideas which have slowly developed along with it. This volume relates this history as it took place during the first three decades of the twentieth century in the United States. In particular it deals with those individuals who were for the most part responsible for it. It was these pioneers who recorded their observations of the actual workings of the myriad adaptations and new devices which had slowly eased their way into accounting theory and practice in the USA in the early twentieth century.