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Now in its fifth edition, this respected and widely used book provides an essential introduction to financial accounting and reporting for business and management students around the world.

Written very much from the ´user´ rather than the ´preparer´ accounting perspective, the book provides clear and comprehensive guidance on all the complex concepts and issues in accounting and reporting, together with explanation of the more technical aspects of accounting transactions.
The book has a strong international perspective (being based on IFRS/IAS) and uses lots of real-life worldwide company financial statements and examples, to enable students to see how issues appear in practice.

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Part 1 Introduction to Financial Accounting
1.Accounting: The language of business
2.Introduction to Financial Statements
3.Financial Statements: Interrelations and construction
4.Accounting Principles and End-of-period Adjustments
Part 2 Major Accounting Topics
5.Regulation of Accounting and Financial Reporting
6.Revenue Recognition Issues
7.Tangible Assets
8.Intangible Assets
9.Inventories
10.Financial Instruments in the Statement of Financial Position and Fair Value Accounting
11.Shareholders´ Equity
12.Liabilities and Provisions
13.Business Combinations
14.Analysis of the Income Statement
Part 3 Financial Statement Analysis
15.Analysis of the Statement of Financial Position/Balance Sheet
16.Statement of Cash Flows Construction
17.Analysis of the Statement of Cash Flows and Earnings Quality
18.Ratio Analysis, Financial Analysis and Beyond

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Stolowy, Hervé
Hervé Stolowy is Professor of Accounting at HEC Paris (Jouy-en-Josas, France). He teaches financial accounting and financial statement analysis in the different undergraduate programs of HEC Paris (HEC-MBA Program and HEC Masters of Science in Management - Grande Ecole). Professor Stolowy has authored and co-authored 10 books, chapters in 15 collective works and published over 75 articles in academic and applied journals. His research and teaching interests span financial and international accounting, and focus more specifically on IFRS/IAS, intangibles, accounts manipulation and design and use of statement of cash flows.

Ding, Yuan
Yuan Ding is Cathay Capital Chair Professor in Accounting at CEIBS (China Europe International Business School). Prior to joining CEIBS, he was a tenured faculty member at HEC Paris, France. He has had research papers published in several academic journals and in leading French academic journals. Professor Ding lectures in financial accounting, financial statement analysis, international accounting and corporate governance in Master´s of Science in Management, MBA, EMBA and PhD programs in Europe and China.

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