Audit and Accounting Guide

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The 2017 edition of this industry standard

resource offers clear and practical guidance of
audit and accounting issues such as transfers and
servicing, troubled debt restructurings, financing
receivables and the allowance for loan losses,
and fair value accounting. It also provides
direction for institutions assessing their
operations and internal controls for regulatory
considerations as well as discussions on existing
regulatory reporting matters. Updates include:

• SAS No. 132, The Auditor's Consideration

of an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a
Going Concern
• SSAE No. 18, Attestation Standards:
Clarification and Recodification
• Note: FASB ASU No. 2016-13 will have a
significant impact on the guide; however,
incorporation of guidance will not occur
until the 2018 or 2019 edition of the
guide.

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 Valuation in a World of CVA, DVA, and FVA

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CVA, DVA, and FVA, which are the acronyms for

credit, debit, and funding valuation adjustments,
have become widely used by major banks since
the financial crisis. This book aims to bridge the
gap between the highly complex and
mathematical models used by these banks to
adjust the value of debt securities and interest
rate derivatives, and the end users of the
valuations, for example, accountants, auditors,
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tutorial, demonstrates the types of models that
are used using binomial trees that are featured
in the CFA® fixed income curriculum and allows
readers to replicate the examples using a
spreadsheet.

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 The Role of the Management Accountant

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There is considerable national variation in the

professionalization and status of the
management accountant.

This book bridges this research gap using two

complementary perspectives. The first part
explores management accountants in a range of
different national contexts, providing
information about country-specific historical
developments and educational standards as well
as specific roles and tasks. The second part
focusses on important global developments that
will increasingly impact management
accountants in the future, such as sustainability,
the financial crisis, technology and changing
roles. By combining local context with a global
overview, this insightful volume provides an
agenda for future research which will be of great
interest to scholars and advanced students in
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 Handbook of Competition in Banking and
Finance

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For academics, regulators and policymakers

alike, it is crucial to measure financial sector
competition by means of reliable, well-
established methods. However, this is easier said
than done.

This comprehensive Handbook provides a

collection of state-of-the-art chapters to address
this issue. Using the latest empirical results from
around the world, expert contributors offer a
thorough assessment of the quality and
reliability of the prevalent measures of
competition in banking and finance.
The Handbook consists of four parts, the first of
which discusses the characteristics of various
measures of financial sector competition. The
second part includes several empirical studies on
the level of, and trends in, competition across
countries. The third part deals with the spillovers
of market power to other sectors and the
economy as a whole. Finally, the fourth part
considers competition in banking submarkets
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 Controlling Capital

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Controlling Capital examines three pressing

issues in financial market regulation: the
contested status of public regulation, the
emergence of ‘culture’ as a proposed modality
of market governance, and the renewed
ascendancy of private regulation.

In the years following the outbreak of crisis in

financial markets, public regulation seemed
almost to be attaining a position of command –
the robustness and durability of which is
explored here in respect of market conduct,
European Union capital markets union, and US
and EU competition policies. There has been a
softening of command and a return to public-
private co-regulation, positioned within a
narrative on culture. The potential and limits of
culture as a regulatory resource are unpacked
here in respect of occupational and
organisational aspects, stakeholder connivance
and wider political embeddedness. Lastly the
book looks from both appreciative and critical
perspectives at private regulation.

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 CPA’s Guide to Effective Engagement
Letters (12th Edition)

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The integrity of your practice depends on the

contents of your engagement letters. Whether
it's a new engagement, repeat engagement, or,
especially, a changed engagement, you need to
know what to say and how to say it correctly.
Using the sample letters and advice in this user-
friendly guide, you'll improve client/CPA
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more effectively, and protect yourself from
litigation. A well-constructed engagement letter
also provides an opportunity to explore other
potential business with your client. A wide
variety of engagement types are covered, and
every letter can be easily customized and
printed. The Twelfth Edition of CPA's Guide to
Effective Engagement Letters has been updated
throughout

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 Advances in Accounting Behavioral
Research

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Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research

publishes high-quality research encompassing all
areas of accounting, including financial, auditing,
taxation, managerial, and information systems,
addressing a broad range of issues that affect
the users, preparers, and assurers of accounting
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Further, this research incorporates theory from,

and contributes knowledge and understanding
to, applied psychology, sociology, management
science, and behavioral economics.

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 Ultimate Guide: Take Your Accounting
Practice to the Next Level with Internet
Marketing

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This is a brief guide that provides an overview of

how to market your accounting services using
various online platforms. It describes various
online marketing techniques such as Online
Advertising, Search Engine Optimization,
Building SEO-Friendly Websites, Content
Marketing, E-Mail marketing, as well as Social
Media marketing.

It gets you started with LinkedIn marketing,

which is the best thing since the calculator for
accountants. It also talks about marketing on
Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

Moving forward, it also describes the impact of

online marketing on your accounting practice
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 Global Finance: Places, Spaces and People

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Global Finance is a timely look at the

contemporary international financial
environment, providing an introduction to this
dynamic field of research for students and more
advanced researchers. Drawing on economic
geography, economic sociology and critical
management, Hall offers a broad selection of
case studies that ground critical theory in our
current financial climate.

Hall examines and reviews a wide range of

critical approaches relating to the role of money
and finance in the global economy, dividing
these approaches into three key sections:
• Global finance and international
financial centres
• Global finance and the ‘real’ economy’
• Global financial subjects and actors

The book takes a uniquely interdisciplinary

approach which, combined with an international
spread of case studies, makes this book highly
valuable.

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 Accounting For Dummies, 6th Edition

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This new edition of Accounting For

Dummies helps you speak your accountant's
language with ease—minimizing confusion as
you maximize profits. Written in plain English, it
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• Read and understand financial statements
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• Report income and expenses for public or
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Accounting For Dummies is your no-nonsense

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 Attestation Engagements of Sustainability
Information (AICPA)

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This is a new authoritative guide for SSAE No. 18

and sustainability.

Organizations are increasingly seeking to add

credibility to sustainability information:
According to the CFA Institute, 73 percent of
portfolio managers and research analysts
surveyed take sustainability matters into
account when making investment decisions and
69 percent believe it is important that such
information be subject to independent
assurance.

This new guide will assist CPAs with interpreting

and applying the clarified attestation standards
(SSAE No. 18) when performing examination or
review engagements on sustainability
information.

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 Corporate Finance: The Basics

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Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise

introduction to the inner workings of finance at
the company level. It aims to take the fear out of
corporate finance and add the fun in, presenting
the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and
easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and
demystify – the essential ideas of corporate
finance, avoiding the heavy use of maths and
formulae. The calculations and figures in the
book are purely to illustrate fundamental
concepts, appealing to readers’ common sense,
rather than stretch their ability to do "number-
crunching". Topics covered include:

• Financial statements through the

corporate finance lens
• How to make investment decisions
• Cash versus profit
• Net working capital management
• How to determine the value of a
business

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 Financial Auditing Checklist

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Use a checklist for the preparation of your

business's financial statements so you can go
step by step.

Interior: 9 topics, 53 tasks

• Accounting Requirements
• Organizational Structure
• Budgets
• Banking and Custody
• Procedures
• Checks of Income Records
• Controls over purchases
• Staff and Salaries
• Bank accounts
• Bank account information
• Calendar 2017-2018
• Free Bonus Printable

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 Revenue Recognition Guide

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Completely rewritten for 2018, Revenue

Recognition Guide is a comprehensive reference
manual that addresses authoritative literature
on revenue recognition that must be adopted by
public companies by 2018. Revenue Recognition
Guide clarifies concepts and principles, and
provides insight into issues that have been
addressed as the accounting profession prepares
to adopt the new guidance.

Overall the Guide provides:

• Expert, independent analysis of the new

FASB and IASB principles-based
standards for revenue recognition
• Plain English discussion of all aspects of
the standards
• Explanations and illustrations of key
points and judgments
• Illustrations and Practice Pointers
highlighting key consequences of the
accounting guidance and identifying
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 Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs

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Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs (8th

Edition), by Robert Ricketts and Larry Tunnell,
discusses the complex issues involving
partnership taxation with utmost clarity. It uses
hundreds of illustrative examples, practice
observations, helpful charts and insightful
explanations to make even the most difficult
concepts understandable.

The book reflects the authors' penchant for

communicating the pertinent facts in very direct
language and creating a context for
understanding the multifaceted issues and
applying them to practice.

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 Accounting Management: Beginner’s
Guide

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This amazing Accounting management self-

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fluent and ready for any Accounting
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How do I reduce the effort in the Accounting
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Accounting management opportunity costs are
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There’s no better guide through these mind-

expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling
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 Encyclopedia of Accounting, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Accounting, Vol. 3:

Each great head of receipts has its special

features. State income obtained from property
or earnings is described as economic, quasi
private, or direct. It is closely analogous to the
income of the individual or company. Its amount
depends on the possessions and the efficient
management of the State, but it must be
remembered that what is held as public is
subtracted from private property. Where the
State is universal landlord there cannot be a
contribution from private landowners for the
support of the public services, and the same is
the case with industries appropriated by the
Government. Thus, the extension of the State
domain, though it seems to supply a direct
revenue, yet affects the growth of private
wealth, and thereby tends to reduce the receipts
from taxation.

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 Lower Your Taxes – Big Time!

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 Accounting & Analysis

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Continuing Capital City’s Investment Knowledge

Series, the Accounting & Analysis manual is an
essential companion for anyone moving into the
world of financial analysis and/or valuation.

Starting with the fundamentals of the

accounting world, linking the flow of information
through the primary statements, the manual
goes on to give the reader insight to how
accounting information can differ and the
impact it can have on analysis and valuation.
IFRS and US GAAP are compared where relevant.

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 GAAS Guide, 2018

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CCH's GAAS Guide describes the engagement

standards, practices, and procedures in use
today, including Statements on Auditing
Standards (SASs) and their Interpretations,
Statements on Standards for Attestation
Engagements (SSAEs) and their Interpretations,
and Statements on Standards on Accounting and
Review Services (SSARS) and their
Interpretations.

The 2018 Edition of the GAAS Guide reflects the

latest available professional standards. Most
importantly, changes in auditing standards and
the related Codification of Statements on
Auditing Standards resulting from the Auditing
Standards Board s (ASB) Clarity and Convergence
Project.

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