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- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Authors’ acknowledgements
- Part 1 INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING ON A CASH FLOW AND ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING BASIS
- 1 Accounting and reporting on a cash flow basis
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Shareholders
- 1.3 What skills does an accountant require in respect of external reports?
- 1.4 Managers
- 1.5 What skills does an accountant require in respect of internal reports?
- 1.6 Procedural steps when reporting to internal users
- 1.7 Agency costs
- 1.8 Illustration of periodic financial statements prepared under the cash flow concept to disclose r
- 1.9 Illustration of preparation of statement of financial position
- 1.10 Treatment of non-current assets in the cash flow model
- 1.11 What are the characteristics of these data that make them reliable?
- 1.12 Reports to external users
- 1.13 Micro businesses
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 2 Accounting and reporting on an accrual accounting basis
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Historical cost convention
- 2.3 Accrual basis of accounting
- 2.4 Mechanics of accrual accounting – adjusting cash receipts and payments
- 2.5 Reformatting the statement of financial position
- 2.6 Accounting for the sacrifice of non-current assets
- 2.7 Published statement of cash flows
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- Part 2 PREPARATION OF INTERNAL AND PUBLISHED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
- 3 Preparation of financial statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, changes in e
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Preparing an internal statement of profit or loss from a trial balance
- 3.3 Reorganising the income and expenses into one of the formats required for publication
- 3.4 Format 1: classification of operating expenses and other income by function
- 3.5 Format 2: classification of operating expenses according to their nature
- 3.6 Other information to be presented in the profit or loss section
- 3.7 Other comprehensive income
- 3.8 Presentation of non-recurring items and their effect on operating income
- 3.9 How decision-useful is the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income?
- 3.10 Statement of changes in equity
- 3.11 The statement of financial position
- 3.12 The explanatory notes that are part of the financial statements
- 3.13 Has prescribing the formats meant that identical transactions are reported identically?
- 3.14 Fair presentation
- 3.15 What does an investor need in addition to the primary financial statements to make decisions?
- 3.16 IAS 1 ED General Presentation and Disclosures
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 4 Annual report: additional financial disclosures
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 IAS 10 Events after the Reporting Period
- 4.3 IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors
- 4.4 What do segment reports provide?
- 4.5 IFRS 8 Operating Segments
- 4.6 Benefits and continuing concerns following the issue of IFRS 8
- 4.7 Discontinued operations – IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
- 4.8 Held for sale – IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
- 4.9 IAS 24 Related Party Disclosures
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 5 Statements of cash flows
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Development of statements of cash flows
- 5.3 Applying IAS 7 (revised) Statement of Cash Flows
- 5.4 Step approach to preparation of a statement of cash flows – indirect method
- 5.5 Additional notes required by IAS 7
- 5.6 Analysing statements of cash flows
- 5.7 Approach to answering questions with time constraints
- 5.8 Preparing a statement of cash flows when no statement of income is available
- 5.9 Critique of cash flow accounting
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 6 Accounting for price-level changes
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Review of the problems of historical cost accounting (HCA)
- 6.3 Inflation accounting
- 6.4 The concepts in principle
- 6.5 The four models illustrated for a company with cash purchases and sales
- 6.6 Critique of each model
- 6.7 Operating capital maintenance – a comprehensive example
- 6.8 Critique of CCA statements
- 6.9 Measurement bases
- 6.10 The IASB position where there is hyperinflation
- 6.11 Future developments
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Part 3 REGULATORY FRAMEWORK – AN ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE UNIFORMITY
- 7 Financial reporting – evolution of global standards
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Why do we need financial reporting standards?
- 7.3 Why do we need standards to be mandatory?
- 7.4 Arguments in support of standards
- 7.5 Arguments against standards
- 7.6 The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) as a regulatory body
- 7.7 The International Accounting Standards Board
- 7.8 Standard setting and enforcement in the European Union (EU)
- 7.9 Standard setting and enforcement in the US
- 7.10 Advantages and disadvantages of global standards for publicly accountable entities
- 7.11 How do reporting requirements differ for non-publicly accountable entities?
- 7.12 IFRS for SMEs
- 7.13 Why have there been differences in financial reporting?
- 7.14 Move towards a conceptual framework
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 8 Concepts – evolution of an international conceptual framework
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Different countries meant different financial statements
- 8.3 Historical overview of the evolution of financial accounting theory
- 8.4 Developing the Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements
- 8.5 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting 2018
- 8.6 Current developments – concept of materiality
- Summary and evaluation of position to date
- Review questions
- Exercises
- 9 Revenue recognition
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The issues involved in developing the new standard
- 9.3 IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers
- 9.4 Five-step process to identify the amount and timing of revenue
- 9.5 Disclosures
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- Part 4 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION – EQUITY, LIABILITY AND ASSET MEASUREMENT AND DISCLOSURE
- 10 Share capital, distributable profits and reduction of capital
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Common themes
- 10.3 Total owners’ equity: an overview
- 10.4 Total shareholders’ funds: more detailed explanation
- 10.5 Accounting entries on issue of shares
- 10.6 Creditor protection: capital maintenance concept
- 10.7 Creditor protection: why capital maintenance rules are necessary
- 10.8 Creditor protection: how to quantify the amounts available to meet creditors’ claims
- 10.9 Issued share capital: minimum share capital
- 10.10 Distributable profits: general considerations
- 10.11 Distributable profits: how to arrive at the amount using relevant accounts
- 10.12 When may capital be reduced?
- 10.13 Writing off part of capital which has already been lost and is not represented by assets
- 10.14 Repayment of part of paid-in capital to shareholders or cancellation of unpaid share capital
- 10.15 Purchase of own shares
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 11 Liabilities
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Provisions – a decision tree approach to their impact on the statement of financial position
- 11.3 Treatment of provisions
- 11.4 The general principles that IAS 37 applies to the recognition of a provision
- 11.5 Management approach to measuring the amount of a provision
- 11.6 Application of criteria illustrated
- 11.7 Provisions for specific purposes
- 11.8 Contingent liabilities
- 11.9 Contingent assets
- 11.10 Criticisms of IAS 37
- 11.11 Future progress
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 12 Financial instruments
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Financial instruments – the IASB’s problem child
- 12.3 IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation
- 12.4 IFRS 9 Financial Instruments
- 12.5 IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosure
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 13 Employee benefits
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Greater employee interest in pensions
- 13.3 Financial reporting implications
- 13.4 Types of scheme
- 13.5 Accounting for defined contribution pension schemes
- 13.6 Accounting for defined benefit pension schemes
- 13.7 IAS 19 Employee Benefits
- 13.8 The asset or liability for pension and other post-retirement costs
- 13.9 Changes in the pension asset or liability position
- 13.10 Comprehensive illustration
- 13.11 Multi-employer plans
- 13.12 Disclosures
- 13.13 Other long-service benefits
- 13.14 Short-term benefits
- 13.15 Termination benefits
- 13.16 IFRS 2 Share-based Payment
- 13.17 Scope of IFRS 2
- 13.18 Recognition and measurement
- 13.19 Equity-settled share-based payments
- 13.20 Cash-settled share-based payments
- 13.21 Transactions which may be settled in cash or shares
- 13.22 IAS 26 Accounting and Reporting by Retirement Benefit Plans
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 14 Taxation in company accounts
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Corporation tax
- 14.3 Corporation tax systems – the theoretical background
- 14.4 Dividends pre- and post-2016
- 14.5 Corporation tax systems – avoidance and evasion
- 14.6 IAS 12 – accounting for current taxation
- 14.7 Deferred tax
- 14.8 A critique of deferred taxation
- 14.9 Value added tax (VAT)
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 15 Property, plant and equipment (PPE)
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 PPE – concepts and the relevant IASs and IFRSs
- 15.3 What is PPE?
- 15.4 How is the cost of PPE determined?
- 15.5 What is depreciation?
- 15.6 What are the constituents in the depreciation formula?
- 15.7 Calculation of depreciation
- 15.8 Measurement subsequent to initial recognition
- 15.9 IAS 36 Impairment of Assets
- 15.10 IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
- 15.11 Disclosure requirements
- 15.12 Government grants towards the cost of PPE
- 15.13 Investment properties
- 15.14 Effect of accounting policy for PPE on the interpretation of the financial statements
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 16 Leasing
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Need for an accounting standard on leasing
- 16.3 Terms and conditions of a lease
- 16.4 Leases in the financial statements of lessees under IFRS 16
- 16.5 Leases in the financial statements of lessors
- 16.6 Sale and leaseback transactions
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Note
- 17 Intangible assets
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Intangible assets defined
- 17.3 Accounting treatment for research and development
- 17.4 Why is research expenditure not capitalised?
- 17.5 Capitalising development costs
- 17.6 Disclosure of R&D
- 17.7 IFRS for SME’s treatment of intangible assets
- 17.8 Internally generated and purchased goodwill
- 17.9 The accounting treatment of goodwill
- 17.10 Critical comment on the various methods that have been used to account for goodwill
- 17.11 Negative goodwill/badwill
- 17.12 Brands
- 17.13 Accounting for acquired brands
- 17.14 Intellectual capital disclosures (ICDs) in the annual report
- 17.15 Review of implementation of IFRS 3
- 17.16 Review of the implementation of identified intangibles under IAS 38
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 18 Inventories
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Inventory defined
- 18.3 The impact of inventory valuation on profits
- 18.4 IAS 2 Inventories
- 18.5 Inventory valuation
- 18.6 Work in progress
- 18.7 Inventory control
- 18.8 Creative accounting
- 18.9 Audit of the year-end physical inventory count
- 18.10 Published accounts
- 18.11 Agricultural activity
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 19 Construction contracts
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Construction contracts
- 19.3 IFRS 15 treatment of construction contracts
- 19.4 Accounting for a contract – an example
- 19.5 Illustration – loss-making contract using the step approach
- 19.6 Public – private partnerships
- 19.7 Requirements of IFRIC 12 Service Concession Arrangements
- 19.8 Worked example of service concession accounting
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Note
- Part 5 CONSOLIDATED ACCOUNTS
- 20 Accounting for groups at the date of acquisition
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Preparing consolidated accounts for a wholly owned subsidiary
- 20.3 IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements
- 20.4 Fair values
- 20.5 Illustration where there is a wholly owned subsidiary
- 20.6 Preparing consolidated accounts when there is a partly owned subsidiary
- 20.7 The treatment of differences between a subsidiary’s fair value and book value
- 20.8 The parent issues shares to acquire shares in a subsidiary
- 20.9 IFRS 3 Business Combinations treatment of goodwill at the date of acquisition
- 20.10 When may a parent company not be required to prepare consolidated accounts?
- 20.11 When may a parent company exclude or not exclude a subsidiary from a consolidation?
- 20.12 IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement
- 20.13 What advantages are there for stakeholders from requiring groups to prepare consolidated accou
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 21 Preparation of consolidated statements of financial position after the date of acquisition
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 Uniform accounting policies and reporting dates
- 21.3 Pre- and post-acquisition profits/losses
- 21.4 The Bend Group – assuming there have been no inter-group transactions
- 21.5 Inter-company transactions
- 21.6 The Prose Group – assuming there have been inter-group transactions
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 22 Preparation of consolidated statements of profit or loss, changes in equity and cash flows
- 22.1 Introduction
- 22.2 Eliminate inter-company transactions
- 22.3 Preparation of a consolidated statement of profit or loss – the Ante Group
- 22.4 The statement of changes in equity (SOCE)
- 22.5 Other consolidation adjustments
- 22.6 A subsidiary acquired part-way through the year
- 22.7 Published format statement of profit or loss
- 22.8 Consolidated statements of cash flows
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 23 Accounting for associates and joint arrangements
- 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 Definitions of associates and of significant influence
- 23.3 The treatment of associated companies in the financial statements of the investor
- 23.4 The Brill Group – group accounts with a profit-making associate
- 23.5 The Brill Group – group accounts with a loss-making associate
- 23.6 The acquisition of an associate part-way through the year
- 23.7 Joint arrangements
- 23.8 Disclosure in the financial statements
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 24 Introduction to accounting for exchange differences
- 24.1 Introduction
- 24.2 How to record foreign currency transactions in a company’s own books
- 24.3 Boil plc – a more detailed illustration
- 24.4 IAS 21 Concept of Functional and Presentation Currencies
- 24.5 Translating the functional currency into the presentation currency
- 24.6 Preparation of consolidated accounts
- 24.7 How to reduce the risk of translation differences
- 24.8 Critique of the use of presentational currency
- 24.9 IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- Part 6 INTERPRETATION
- 25 Earnings per share
- 25.1 Introduction
- 25.2 Why is the earnings per share figure important?
- 25.3 How is the EPS figure calculated?
- 25.4 The use to shareholders of the EPS
- 25.5 Illustration of the basic EPS calculation
- 25.6 Adjusting the number of shares used in the basic EPS calculation
- 25.7 Rights issues
- 25.8 Adjusting the earnings and number of shares used in the diluted EPS calculation
- 25.9 Procedure where there are several potential dilutions
- 25.10 Exercise of conversion rights during the financial year
- 25.11 Disclosure requirements of IAS 33
- 25.12 Enhanced disclosures
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 26 Review of financial ratio analysis
- 26.1 Introduction
- 26.2 Overview of techniques for the analysis of financial data
- 26.3 Ratio analysis – a case study
- 26.4 Introductory review
- 26.5 Financial statement analysis, part 1 – financial performance
- 26.6 Financial statement analysis, part 2 – liquidity
- 26.7 Financial statement analysis, part 3 – financing
- 26.8 Peer comparison
- 26.9 Report based on the analysis
- 26.10 Caution when using ratios for prediction
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- 27 Analysis of published financial statements
- 27.1 Introduction
- 27.2 Alternative performance measures
- 27.3 EBITDA
- 27.4 EBITDAR
- 27.5 EBITDARM
- 27.6 Regulator’s reaction to use of an alternative management performance measure (APM)
- 27.7 Use of ratios as thresholds
- 27.8 Predicting corporate failure
- 27.9 Investor-specific ratios
- 27.10 Published financial statements – their limitations for interpretation purposes
- 27.11 Improvement of information for shareholders
- 27.12 Valuing shares of an unquoted company – quantitative process
- 27.13 Valuing shares of an unquoted company – qualitative process
- 27.14 Possible effects of a pandemic (Covid-19)
- 27.15 Possible effects of Brexit
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- Part 7 ACCOUNTABILITY
- 28 Corporate governance
- 28.1 Introduction
- 28.2 A systems perspective
- 28.3 Different jurisdictions have different governance priorities
- 28.4 The effect on capital markets of good corporate governance
- 28.5 Risk management
- 28.6 The role of internal control, internal audit and audit committees in corporate governance
- 28.7 External audits in corporate governance
- 28.8 Detection of fraud
- 28.9 The Regulator’s approach to promoting improved disclosures
- 28.10 International perspective (IFIAR)
- 28.11 The future of audit
- 28.12 Executive remuneration in the UK
- 28.13 Corporate governance – ways to make directors accountable
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 29 Ethical behaviour and implications for accountants
- 29.1 Introduction
- 29.2 The meaning of ethical behaviour
- 29.3 The accounting standard-setting process and ethics
- 29.4 The International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants 2018
- 29.5 Implications of ethical values for the principles – versus rules-based approaches to accounti
- 29.6 Ethics in the accountant’s work environment – a research report
- 29.7 Implications of unethical behaviour for stakeholders using the financial reports
- 29.8 The increasing role of whistle-blowing
- 29.9 Legal requirement to report – national and international regulation
- 29.10 Why should students learn ethics?
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- 30 Integrated reporting: sustainability, environmental and social
- 30.1 Introduction
- 30.2 Environmental and social disasters, the adverse consequences that can follow and the lessons to
- 30.3 Management accountability for environmental and social responsibility
- 30.4 Integrated reporting concepts
- 30.5 The historical context of the evolution of integrated reporting including the drivers of this m
- 30.6 The seriousness of current threats: sustainability – climate change and pollution
- 30.7 The efforts on which integrated reporting builds
- 30.8 The contribution of accountants
- 30.9 Integrated reporting – its impact on the future development of financial reporting and accoun
- 30.10 Reporting to stakeholders to account for stewardship
- 30.11 Reporting to stakeholders to assist decision making
- 30.12 Real-time reporting
- 30.13 Other means of communication with stakeholders
- 30.14 The way forward for improved sustainability disclosure
- Summary
- Review questions
- Exercises
- Notes
- Publisher’s acknowledgements
- Index
- Back Cover
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