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Quality financial reporting

Author: Paul B W Miller; Paul R Bahnson
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Offers a look at the shortcomings in financial reporting standards with a program for change. Outlining the rules for QFR, this work provides readers with: strategies and techniques for adopting a  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul B W Miller; Paul R Bahnson
ISBN: 0071387420 9780071387422
OCLC Number: 49530145
Description: xxiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Four Axioms and Seven Deadly Sins --
Foundation for a Revolution --
The Quality Financial Reporting Revolution --
The Four Axioms --
A Different Slant --
Using the Axioms to Define Financial Reporting Strategies --
The Seven Deadly Sins of Financial Reporting --
A Brief Background --
Underestimating the Capital Markets --
Obfuscating --
Hyping and Spinning --
Smoothing --
Minimum Reporting --
Minimum Auditing --
Preparation Cost Myopia --
Summary of the Sins --
It Isn't the Ethics as Much as the Economics --
Gaap Aren't Good Enough --
Financial Reporting in the U.S. and Elsewhere --
A Brief History --
Where Does the Information Go, and How Is It Used? --
What Does This Model Mean for QFR? --
The U.S. System--As Good as It Gets? --
Why GAAP Aren't Good Enough --
The GAAP Due Process --
Understanding What GAAP Can and Cannot Do --
Proof in the Pudding --
What's the Point? --
PEAP, WYWAP, and POOP --
What Should Financial Reporting Accomplish? --
What Should Financial Statements Contain? --
How GAAP Aren't Good Enough --
Almost the Final Word --
An Ethical Insight --
Building Confidence in Quality Financial Reporting --
The QFR Strategy for Overcoming the Old Obstacles --
The Basic Situation --
Three Places to Start --
What About GAAP? --
A New Strategy --
Why QFR Makes More Sense than the Status Quo --
The Wrong Role for Regulators --
Some Thoughts on Regulation and Deregulation --
A Closing International Thought --
Financial Analysts Speak Their Minds --
The AIMR Monograph --
The Capital Markets Are Markets.
Responsibility: Paul B.W. Miller, Paul R. Bahnson.
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"If I pick up an annual report and I can't understand a footnote, I probably won't - no, I won't - invest in that company because I know that they don't want me to understand it." --Warren Buffet, Read more...

 
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