More Than a Numbers Game – A Brief History of Accounting de King

More Than a Numbers Game – A Brief History of Accounting

King

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2015

Praise for MORE THAN A NUMBERS GAME

"More Than a Numbers Game is a revelatory history of how accounting conventions have shaped business reality, for good and ill."
--Justin Fox, Editor at Large, Fortune

> --Dennis R. Beresford, Ernst & Young Executive Professor of Accounting, The University of Georgia, and former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (1987-97)

"More Than a Numbers Game is a must-read for accounting students looking for a supplement to traditional textbooks. It offers a business perspective to accounting, providing readers with a holistic overview of taxes, cost accounting, regulation, as well as more traditional financial reporting topics."
--Philip A. Laskawy, retired chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young

> --Louis M. Thompson Jr., President and CEO, National Investor Relations Institute

> --Jeff Joerres, Chairman and CEO, Manpower Inc.

> --John C. Bogle, founder, The Vanguard Group, and author, The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

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In More Than a Numbers Game, practitioner and financial expert Tom King examines the key issues and events that have transformed accounting from a tool used by 19th century American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud during the 2002 telecom crash.