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The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS

ISBN: 978-0-470-88563-5

June 2010

416 pages

Description
Get quick answers to all your IFRS questions

Presenting a question-and-answer format for the most common accounting problems arising from specific IFRS topics, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage of all International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

This reliable reference tool goes anywhere you go—to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting, with on-the-spot answers to questions such as:

  • What are the thresholds for segment reporting?
  • How do I restate financial results in a hyperinflationary economy?
  • How do I recognize intangible assets?
  • What is a provision, and when do I recognize it?
  • How do I account for a business combination?
  • How do I determine an entity's functional currency, and how do I report transactions in that currency?
  • And much more!

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for understanding the day-to-day IFRS issues every accountant, controller, or CFO is sure to face, The Vest Pocket Guide to IFRS is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now, in the quick-reference format you need.

About the Author
STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over thirty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.