Advanced Accounting (7th Edition)

Author: Freud A. Beams
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Publish Date: 2002-10-06
Features: This book is designed to follow "Intermediate Financial Accounting" and systematically addresses some pressing issues in the forefront of financial accounting. These issues are characterized by a high starting point and significant difficulty, mostly representing practical challenges faced by the accounting community in China, and some are also hot topics being studied in the international accounting field. Since the early 1990s, this book has been highly praised by faculty and students of the Accounting College of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, a national key discipline, as a model work for advanced accounting textbooks. The book is rich in content, covers a broad scope, has a complete structure, and is highly informative. It is divided into three parts: Consolidated Financial Statements (including the consolidation of foreign currency financial statements), Non-profit Organization Accounting, and Other Accounting Topics, totaling 21 chapters with two appendices. It comprehensively introduces the achievements in various aspects of the peak field of accounting. The book has the following features:
1. The content progresses from simple to complex, systematically reflecting the authors' profound knowledge. It simplifies complex issues and complicates simple ones, achieving the effect of learning from one example to understand the whole.
2. Numerous theoretical topics are included, with broad perspectives and collective wisdom. The book provides a wealth of accounting methodologies in the field of financial accounting, greatly benefiting readers in elevating their theoretical level.
3. Each chapter is accompanied by abundant reference materials, which are very helpful for improving academic research skills. The detailed cases in the book aid in summarizing complex content; the post-class exercises are closely related to the textbook material, with a significant portion consisting of past U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam questions.
From the above, it is evident that this book possesses theoretical depth, practicality, and comprehensiveness, making it highly suitable as a university undergraduate textbook and as a teaching material for advanced management personnel in the accounting field. Additionally, the theoretical topics section can also be used for specialized lectures to graduate students. It is worth noting that the book is accompanied by a dedicated teaching manual for instructors.