Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging, by Mark Trombley, is a short (250-page) supplement for Advanced Accounting and other upper level accounting... courses. While many books used for these courses contain some coverage of Derivatives, professors must spend valuable time preparing their own materials in order to thoroughly cover this complex subject. Trombley's text provides the desired information and detail, allowing faculty to cover derivatives in class without a lot of prep work. Using simple but realistic examples, Trombley explains options, forwards, futures, swaps, and other types of derivatives, and helps students understand applications of derivative financial instruments.

This controversial book retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada's indigenous peoples, both in the past and... now. Its authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic rationalizations with bureaucratic mechanisms to deprive native peoples of their land and natural resources, and to control the minutiae of their daily economic and social lives.

Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities provides users with extensive, accurate, and up-to-date coverage of accounting and financial... reporting for government and not-for-profit organizations, in addition to information on governmental auditing and performance measurement. The textbook uses a unique dual-track approach to teaching governmental accounting and features two independent computerized government practice sets to enhance student learning.

The 15th edition of Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities is a comprehensive governmental and not-for-profit accounting text that balances... concepts and procedures written by accounting professors engaged with professional for students who will be auditing and working in public and not-for-profit sector entities. This market leading text brings instructors and students a comprehensive knowledge of the specialized accounting and financial reporting practices of governmental and not-for-profit organization, and how those organizations can better meet the information needs of a diverse set of financial statement users and decision makers. With the extensive experience of the current author team comes along a relevant and accurate new edition as well as instructor tools.

The importance of moving toward high-quality, global standards of accounting and auditing has never been clearer. In the midst of the global financial... and economic crisis, the leaders of the Group of 20 met and issued their Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System, placing significant emphasis on sound accounting and auditing standards as a critical piece of the international financial architecture. Transparent and reliable corporate financial reporting underpins much of the Latin America and Caribbean development agenda, from private-sector-led growth to enhanced financial stability, facilitating access to finance for small and medium enterprises, and furthering economic integration. For nearly 10 years, the World Bank has prepared diagnostic Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSCs) on Accounting and Auditing (A&A) at the country level. In Latin America and the Caribbean, ROSC A&A reports have been completed for 17 countries. This book takes a step back and seeks to distill lessons from a regional perspective. Accounting for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is the first book to examine financial reporting and auditing in the region in a systematic way, drawing on the World Bank s years of experience and analysis in this area. The book is designed to inform the policy dialogue on accounting and auditing issues among government officials, the accounting profession, the private sector, academia, and civil society in LAC countries. It also seeks to disseminate the lessons learned to key players at the international and regional level, including the donor community, in order to generate momentum for reform of accounting and auditing throughout the region.

This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It is a practical, user-friendly book... intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing science research and will also help with writing a Master's or Doctoral thesis in English. Science writing is much easier than it looks because the structure and language are conventional. The aim of this book is to help the reader discover a template or model for science research writing and then to provide the grammar and vocabulary tools needed to operate that model. There are five units: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and Abstract. The reader develops a model for each section of the research article through sample texts and exercises; this is followed by a Grammar and Writing Skills section designed to respond to frequently-asked questions as well as a Vocabulary list including examples of how the words and phrases are to be used.

Translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of letters was written by the... daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. She had been permitted the unusual privilege of attending a Dutch elementary school, but then returned home to seclusion during her adolescence, as was the Indonesian custom for women. The letters provide a fascinating picture of the life and spirit of the time during the period when Java was undergoing intimate contact with Western civilization. Through her writings she became a spokesman for the liberation and education of women, as well as an advocate for Indonesian nationalist aspirations. Co-published with the Asia Society.

ACCOUNTING FOR HOSPITALITY MANAGERS will help your students understand and apply hospitality departmental accounting at the supervisory and managerial... levels. This edition includes three chapters on cash management and planning, casino accounting, and assorted accounting topics. Hospitality managerial accounting case studies and Internet reference sites are included in each chapter, and content has been updated to reflect the tenth revised edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act gets comprehensive coverage, including the role of the SEC. The book also covers Fair Value Accounting, required for all publicly-held corporations. Exhibits throughout the book reflect computerization and today’s technology.

This is the 2012 Supplement to the Fourth Edition of Herwitz and Barrett's Accounting for Lawyers. The casebook is the most widely adopted text in the... field.

The Concise Edition is more than one third shorter than the full casebook. The Concise Edition, however, is not merely an abridgment of the full... version, but rather a self-contained casebook specifically designed for the shorter Accounting for Lawyers courses. The Concise Edition stands entirely on its own, making no reference to the full edition, and providing complete, though more limited, coverage of the field. Despite the overall substantial reduction in the text, the concise edition contains some special added material designed to ease the introduction of several of the core topics in the field.

This book has two main purposes. The first is to explain how lawyers construct legal arguments. It is meant to be a purely practical guide to the... process by which lawyers take the raw materials of litigation – cases, statutes, testimony, documents, common sense – and mold them into instruments of persuasive advocacy. The book's second purpose is to explain how to take a well-constructed legal argument and present it, in writing, in a way that legal decision makers will find persuasive. The centerpiece of Legal Argument: The Structure and Language of Effective Advocacy is a step-by-step method, based on the construction of syllogisms, designed to walk the advocate through the process by which such a winning argument may be crafted. The book is divided into five parts:• –Part I sets out a general methodology for constructing legal arguments. • –Part II focuses more closely on the construction of persuasive, well-grounded legal premises, and covers the effective integration of legal doctrine and evidence into the argument's structure. • –Part III shows how to put the method to work by giving two detailed examples of the construction of complete legal arguments from scratch.• –Part IV provides a detailed protocol for reducing well-constructed legal arguments to written form, along with a concrete illustration of that process. It also provides concrete advice on how to recognize and avoid a host of common mistakes in the written presentation of legal arguments. • –Part V moves from the basics into more advanced techniques of persuasive legal argument. These include rhetorical tactics of framing and emphasis, how to respond to arguments, maintaining professionalism in advocacy, and the ethical limits of argument.