Financial Reporting Standards: A Decision-Making Perspective for Non-Accountants - Paperback

by David T. Doran (Author)

Accounting is the score keeping system in the "game" of business, and you won't do well in any "game" if you don't understand how the score is kept. If you're a practicing manager, MBA student, or a non-accounting business major, this book will do more than help you stay in the game. Inside, United States financial reporting standards are compared and contrasted with international financial reporting standards, and the authors detail how management's choice of accounting methods and their required estimates in reporting transactions and events impact financial statements, both immediately and in the future. Unlike typical accounting books, journal entries are not used to illustrate topical coverage. This unique book exclusively provides you with a decision-making perspective by using the accounting equation format to directly illustrate financial statement effects of transactions and events. Most of the topics addressed in this book are typically studied by accounting majors in the two course "intermediate" accounting sequence, but the text also includes discussion of consolidations-a topic generally covered in the "advanced" accounting course. Intermediate accounting textbooks alone typically exceed well over 1,500 pages. By exclusively applying a user's perspective, and limiting topical content to areas relevant for decision making, this book allows non-accountants to acquire the requisite underlying knowledge in a concise, easy to understand text.

Author Biography

David T. Doran developed and currently teaches "Financial Statements and Management Decisions" at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. This book was written specifically for this course, which is required for all finance majors. David has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level for 30+ years, primarily offering courses in financial accounting. Prior to entering academia, he worked with the CPA firm Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doran belongs to the American Accounting Association as well as the AICPA and has a current license to practice as a certified public accountant. He has authored 20 referred journal articles, and made numerous conference presentations.