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The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt''s landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too-little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later.

Somehow, over a one-hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fr

Table of Contents

About the Cover ix

Preface xi

1 Double-Entry 1

2 Railroads 13

3 Taxes 23

4 Costs 41

5 Disclosure 55

6 Standards 71

7 Science 89

8 Inflation 103

9 Volatility 115

10 Intangibles 131

11 Debt 145

12 Options 159

13 Earnings 171

14 SOX 187

15 Epilogue 207

Notes 213

Bibliography 223

Index 235

About the Author 242

More Than a Numbers Game

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 29 September 2015
      ISBN-13 9781119086963
      978-1119086963
      ISBN-10 1119086965
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      Finance and accounting

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt''s landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too-little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later.

      Somehow, over a one-hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fr

      Table of Contents

      About the Cover ix

      Preface xi

      1 Double-Entry 1

      2 Railroads 13

      3 Taxes 23

      4 Costs 41

      5 Disclosure 55

      6 Standards 71

      7 Science 89

      8 Inflation 103

      9 Volatility 115

      10 Intangibles 131

      11 Debt 145

      12 Options 159

      13 Earnings 171

      14 SOX 187

      15 Epilogue 207

      Notes 213

      Bibliography 223

      Index 235

      About the Author 242

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