{"product_id":"more-than-a-numbers-game-9781119086963","title":"More Than a Numbers Game","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e of accounting instead of the \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. \u003ci\u003eMore Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cp\u003eSomehow, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Cover ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Double-Entry 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Railroads 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Taxes 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Costs 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Disclosure 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Standards 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Science 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Inflation 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Volatility 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Intangibles 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Debt 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Options 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Earnings 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 SOX 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Epilogue 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author 242\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528846516567,"sku":"9781119086963","price":22.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119086963.jpg?v=1731873253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/more-than-a-numbers-game-9781119086963","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}