International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook and Guide: Practical insights, Case studies, Multiple-choice questions, Illustrations

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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook and Guide is a one stop resource for understanding and applying current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and offers:

Easy-to-understand explanations of all IFRSs/IASs and IFRICs/SICs issued by the IASB/IASC up to March 2006
Illustrative examples
Practical insights
Worked case studies
Multiple-choice questions with solutions

Technically reviewed by Liesel Knorr, Secretary General of the German Accounting Standards Committee and former technical director of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).

Forewords by:

Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

Philippe Richard, Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

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Brilliant Book!!!.......2006-03-24

This is the first book that really explains IFRS very well. The examples are understandable, it's comprehensive and helps on nearly every issue that might arise when dealing with IFRS.

International Auditing: Practical Resource Guide

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O'Regan an inspiration to all Auditors
A MUST FOR THE AUDIT BOOK SHELF
A MUST FOR THE AUDIT BOOK SHELF
"O'Regan is my guru!"

International Auditing: Practical Resource Guide
David O'Regan
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471263826

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Stay abreast of the latest information on international auditing with this indispensable resource. Obtain practical guidance in such areas as risk assessment, logistics, and cultural/business environment in an international context. Examine the risks international companies face as a cost of doing business and learn proven methods of addressing these risks. This guide gives you advice on how to plan safe and efficient auditing assignments and provides information on regions and countries throughout the world to allow you to place your assignment in a wide context.

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O'Regan an inspiration to all Auditors.......2003-08-06

O'Regan's book is an inspiration to read, in the office or in your leisure. A 'must have' for auditors embarking on international assignments. A breath of fresh air for auditing books normally associated with endless jargon and complex terminology. This book has completely transformed my image of global auditing, so much so, that I aim to adventure into the world of international auditing very soon.

A MUST FOR THE AUDIT BOOK SHELF.......2003-08-06

A truely inspirational read. The chapters are juxtaposed with succintness and clear, precise, useful, practical information.
This is one of the first books I've seen in its genre - unique.
As an experience 'travelling' global auditor I found this book invaluable, it is definitely useful reference material for the spectrum of audit staff from Audit Directors to the juniors on their first field audit. I have passed this book down to all my colleagues as basic training material.

A MUST FOR THE AUDIT BOOK SHELF.......2003-08-06

"O'Regan is my guru!".......2003-03-31

At last - a book on auditing that combines verve, panache, and a mountain of useful information. I have been an avid follower of O'Regan's writing for several years - his classy articles and IIA books have been a constant companion in my professional life as an auditor. He seems sometimes to be leading a one-man crusade to lift auditing writing out of its generally stuffy doldrums and onto a higher plane.

"International Auditing" is O'Regan's best achievement to date, and the intellectual self-confidence that underpins it is almost breathtaking. Who else would dare to undertake, in one book, all of the following: a history of auditing in its various forms, guidance on international risks, advice on logistics and safety, and a detailed country guide that covers economics, politics, history, and demographics? In my opinion the country guides are worth the price of the book alone, and are a pleasure to read.

In summary, my message to O'Regan is "Well done!" More, please...

International Financial Reporting Standards: A Practical Guide
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Not up to my expectation

International Financial Reporting Standards: A Practical Guide
Hennie Van Greuning
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
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International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in a business situation can have a significant effect on the financial results and position of a division or an entire business enterprise. International Financial Reporting Standards: A Practical Guide gives private or public sector executives, managers, and financial analysts without a strong background in accounting the tools they need to participate in discussions and decisions on the appropriateness or application of IFRS. Each chapter summarizes an International Financial Reporting Standard, following a consistent structure: Problems addressed by the IFRS Scope of the Standard Key concepts and definitions Accounting treatment Presentation and disclosure Financial analysis and interpretation "Overall, this book gets very high marks for its comprehensive yet understandable and easy to read coverage of the field of international accounting and financial reporting. It should prove very useful to anyone seeking an understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards, their requirements, and their application." -Global Business and Economics Review, April 2005

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Not up to my expectation.......2007-01-05

I expected this book to include more technical information but i discovered that it is an introduction of IFRS for beginners and can be used for as a guide for people with no accounting background

International Accounting Standards: A Practical Guide

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International Accounting Standards: A Practical Guide
Mariu Koen , and Hennie Van Greuning
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ASIN: 0821348604

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Now in its second edition, this publication gives readers a broad and basic understanding of the key issues for each International Accounting Standard. It summarizes each standard, providing a quick reference for managers and executives in the private and public sectors who may not have a strong background in accounting.

Each chapter also contains a case study that illustrates the practical application of key concepts in a particular standard. This gives the non-technical reader the tools to participate in discussions on the appropriateness or application of a standard in a given situation. The reader can also evaluate the effect that applying a given standard will have on the financial results and position of a division or an entire enterprise.

All of the accounting standards, issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) are included in this book, as well as interpretations disseminated by the Standards Interpretations Committee (SIC) through 31 December 2000.

Identifying the Deviant at Work: A Companion for the Working Class Slave
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Right on the Money

laugh out loud

Striking Persepective on Work

Not so deviant, it's surprisingly sane. . .

Someone who knows about work

Identifying the Deviant at Work: A Companion for the Working Class Slave
Deg Lasdio
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Whether you love it, hate it or are indifferent, going to work will never be the same. This comfort book with an edge will tweak your reality, explain 'the Buffle' (Big Fat Liar), and make fun of incompetence at work.

Everyone wants to laugh about his job. No one has the time to delve into the cause and effect of work because... "it's just a job." So a good laugh sidesteps it all.

A satire on the culture of the common worker, IDW takes a stab at working relationships and situations and how they can impact the quality of one's working life. Is anyone ever properly prepared and/ or educated to deal with the daily challenges of being at work? Do you find you only have one response - a knee jerk reaction that acts like a boomerang? The every day grind parallels any dysfunctional relationship where one person sets all the rules and you only get to follow them.

Most business books are geared toward management and career climbing. Well, there is no management and no career climbing without the working class. There are more workers sitting back to watch the comings and goings than those who make the decisions. The working class has its own problems dealing with one another, much like the monkeys at the bottom of the tree looking up at the rest of the monkeys climbing to the top. The group at the bottom looking up that tree says it all.

IDW is a quick read that can be approached a number of ways - by individual chapter, haiku, bullet points, or your own activity. Its chameleon-like quality is its mystique and is whatever you want it to be - edgy, coping, insightful, ridiculous. So during a break, on a plane, in the bathroom, waiting in line, you can keep yourself company. IDW is your secret pal.

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Right on the Money.......2005-12-02

This book is right on the money. For each description of co-worker I could identify at least one person I have worked with who fit the bill spot-on. Sometimes it was so true it was sad, but mostly it was just hilarious. It makes you wonder; "what kind of co-worker am I???"

laugh out loud.......2005-12-01

Deg Lasdio has really hit a nerve, or should I say funny bone, with this hilarious sendup of all those people who drive us crazy at work, wherever that may happen to be. Everyone will recognize most of these types, and the short format of the descriptions make the book perfect for brief bursts of reading. It's hard to read surreptitiously, though, because howling with laughter occurs all too often. The acronyms, nicknames and the fun illustrations really added to my enjoyment of this charming and wickedly perceptive book.

Striking Persepective on Work .......2005-11-30

This book definitely captures the pain inherent in, and the uncertainty and outright absurdity of, work relationships. If you have ever felt like a fish out of water in any aspect of your life this book will resonate with you and make you consider your priorities. A must read for any unhappy worker!

Not so deviant, it's surprisingly sane. . ........2005-11-29

I wasn't sure how to approach it at first - but it's true, it's just like work, everything is coming at you - the haikus, footnotes, bullet points. If your're expecting to read a book line-by-line, from front to back - this is not for you. After I got used to it, I just went for the ride and enjoyed it.

Anything you might be feeling at work but could not put into words, I found here. Sometimes a little warped, but a truth nonetheless. With the humor on top of it, it was any easy read and I looked forward to the asides.

If you are disgruntled and need to remove yourself from your situation for a moment, just settle in on a few pages. I would especially recommend this book to anyone who is just starting to work. It would save a few years of grief.

Someone who knows about work.......2005-11-29

I had a lot of fun reading this book. The writer describes every kind of coworker with accurate detail. The writing is easy and the book can be read over and over. I especially got a kick out of the many haikus. This book will make a great gift and will cheer up any disgruntled worker. I found it refreshing that there is someone out there who knows how the work environment can be.

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The second volume of this yearbook provides articles, comments, and analyses of developments throughout the previous year. A special focus section highlights the importance of arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution in the financial field. Authors of major articles in this edition include Ernesto Aguirre of the International Monetary Fund, Dr. Paolo Clarotti of the European Commission, Dr. Michael Gruson of Shearman and Sterling, Konstantin Lubenchenko of the Bank of Russia, and Geoffrey P. Miller of NYU School of Law. Commentary is provided on subjects including asset securitisation in emerging markets, the Deposit-Guarantee Directive of the European Community, IOSCO and memoranda of understanding, the Vietnamese securities market, and the impact of the internet on U.S. regulation of securities markets. Recent developments, as with the previous edition, cover all major areas of the world. This year includes analysis of financial reform in China, consolidation within Mercosur, U.S. regulation of operating subsidiaries, the development of the Financial Supervisory Authority in the UK, banking law reform in central and eastern Europe, and the Korean and Thai financial crises. This volume should appeal to anyone with an interest in international financial and economic law throughout the world, a subject to which this volume as with its predecessor makes a significant contribution.

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A comprehensive resource on the past, present, and future of space technology

Researchers in optics, materials processing, and telecommunications require a reference that can provide a quick study of a number of basic topics in space science. The two-volume Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology represents an ambitious collection of the underlying physical principles of rockets, satellites, and space stations; what is known by astronomers about the sun, planets, galaxy, and universe; and the effect of the space environment on human and other biological systems. The Encyclopedia covers a variety of fundamental topics, including:
* A state-of-the-art summary of the engineering involved in launching a rocket or satellite
* The control systems involved on the ground, in orbit, or in deep space
* Manufacturing in space from planetary and other resources

Physicists, astronomers, engineers, and materials and computer scientists, as well as professionals in the aircraft, telecommunication, satellite, optical, and computer industries and the government agencies, will find the Encyclopedia to be an indispensable resource.

Encyclopedia of Space Science & Technology 2 Volume Set

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Encyclopedia of Space Science & Technology 2 Volume Set
Hans Mark
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUD5ZK

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A benchmark publication, an essential, core science history........2000-09-05

Geneticists James Crow (professor emeritus of genetics and zoology, University of Wisconsin - Madison) and William Dove (professor of oncology and medical genetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison) have collaborated to assemble a compendium of more than 100 essays whose contributors survey the history f modern genetics research and the rapidly evolving and expanding science in Perspectives On Genetics: Anecdotal, Historical, And Critical Commentaries, 1987-1998. Every aspect of this specialized science is covered from Dr. Crow's Seventy Years Ago in Genetics: H. S. Jennings and Inbreeding Theory; to Burke H. Judd's Genes and Chromomeres: A Puzzle in Three Dimensions. Perspectives On Genetics is a benchmark publication and an essential, core title for all academic or community library science history collections.

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A Patchwork History.(Review): An article from: American Scientist
J. R. S. Fincham
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The chapters in this volume deal with four fields with deep historical roots that remain active areas reasearch: partial differential equations, variational methods, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. The collection is intended to serve two purposes: First, to honor James Serrin, in whose work the four fields frequently interacted; and second, to bring together work in fields that are usually pursued independently but that remain remarkably interrelated. Serrin's contributions to mathematical analysis and its applications are fundamental and include such theorems and methods as the Gilbarg- Serrin theorem on isoated singularities, the Serrin symmetry theorem, the Alexandrov-Serrin moving-plane technique, The Peletier-Serrin uniqueness theorem, and the Serrin integal of the calculus of variations. Serrin has also been noted for the elegance of his mathematical work and for the effectiveness of his teaching and collaborations.

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Too much varied subjects for such a small book!.......2000-04-19

A group of Matemathical Researchers of several Universties of the World, disciples and friends of Professor James Serrin (one of the best developers of "Rational Mechanics" along with C. Truesdell, W. Noll, N.A. Toupin and R. S. Rivling just to mention a few), compiled some of their works in a book to honor Professor Serrin for his 65th birthday. Even when the book's content is interesting since deals with Nonlinear Analysis, it lacks the "Classic Approach" of the Continuum Mechanics that just Professor Serrin could impregnate to it. At the beggining of the book a list of J. Serrin's papers is shown as well as an unique paper of him at the end of the book which is not enough to me by considering the title of the book. Now I am aware that I misunderstood the second title of the book: "Papers for the 65th Birthday of James Serrin" which I thought it meant: "Collected Papers for the 65th Birthday of James Serrin".

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_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless" theft of office furniture lands him with his very own doomsday nuclear stockpile at home. Chain reactions of insanely comic escapades follow, with disaster piled on disaster, leading the increasingly desperate Tappen to the borders of science fiction as he seeks a way out of the mess.

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Hilarious Nuclear Insecurity.......2007-09-02

The Leaky Establishment is a story spun from Dave Langford's experiences working at a British nuclear research establishment in the 1970s. Protagonist Roy Tappen is like a Wooster with no Jeeves to save him as Langford turns the nuclear research center into a goldmine of laughs.

Roy Tappen borrows a filing cabinet from work to use at home and unknowingly also takes home a plutonium warhead. He spends the rest of the book trying to infiltrate the warhead back where it belongs without Security or his boss discovering it ever left the facility. Tappen soon explains why his warhead in its aluminum jacket is no more dangerous than a lot of household items. From then on Langford is free to treat the plutonium core like any of the other humorous icons whose appearance at the right moment in the story is good for a chuckle. Jokes are set up and triggered in the deft Langford style, at the pace of about a joke per paragraph.

The Leaky Establishment is invested with all the delightful characteristics of Langford's writing, the flair for lucid prose found in writers from Bob Shaw to C.S. Lewis, lots of sophisticated wordplay, and inspired leaps between high-brow and low-brow humor.

Langford's best book.......2007-08-27

This is David Langford's best book to date (and that's saying something!) With his usual wit and humour, he has accurately captured both the spirit of the Cold War and the bureaucracy of the Civil Service in the 1970s and 80s. The characters are recognisable to us all, and the situations they get into are both true to life and side-splittingly funny.

If you've already got this book, you should get it down from the shelf and re-read it. If you haven't - well, what are you waiting for?

BECAUSE I can't give it zero stars.......2004-09-12

A dull, boring book. Terry Pratchett wrote an introduction, saying in it "This was the book I wanted to write!". Perhaps he should reconsider.

A bet is made at a nuclear power plant. Swipe the filing cabinets. The man takes them home, and find that a misplaced war head is in the files.

He was going take it back,BUT the very next day, the rules for going in and out of the plant have been upgraded and made more stringent.

A really contrived plot.

There are some funny lines, but the characters are so dull and flat that there's no concern for any of them. I watched the ceiling a lot whie reading this title. It was more interesting.

Langford can write, but the whole book is not worth the effort to seek out his good lines.

Funny.... and scary.......2003-01-16

Roy Tappen works for a (thankfully, fictional) nuclear weapons facility in the UK. He fights bureaucracy while trying to use it for his purpose, which is to undo the potentially disasterous results of a practical joke gone wrong.

What's scary is it looks so real, so familiar, to those of us who have dealt with government facilities.

It has a surprise resolution that is rather poetical.

Parody of the UK nuclear weapons lab in the 1980s.......2001-12-16

Curses! Long after we'd abandoned hope of a reprint, and barely 12 weeks after I'd splashed out on a used - signed, no less - first edition, this imprint inexplicably appears!

Don't get me wrong: it's a pretty funny book. Set around the aptly-named "Robinson Heath" bomb lab (a blatant send-up of AWRE Aldermaston, where the author once worked), it recounts the exploits of scientist Roy Tappen who accidentally takes the fissile part of his work home one night and struggles to smuggle it back inside the fence. In the process, Langford shines the harsh light of satire on the secretive and cowering creatures of the Scientific Civil Service.

The plot is far-fetched (luckily), and the story mashes in a fair few in-jokes, such as place names, which mean that you can probably knock half a star off the rating if you haven't worked at Aldermaston and another half if you don't know the area. Shame to see the laser getting only one throwaway gag though, since it's such a multi-billion dollar save-the-earth project in the US and France now.

Langford's style a bit glib and teenaged (maybe he was still gloating at his escape?) but it rattles along quite nicely. But the best part has got to be the wonderfully succinct caricatures of inmates in UK Government labs: a must for anyone who's had to deal with them.

What's puzzling is the timing: Aldermaston was privatised in the early 1990s, so this tale isn't really a hard-hitting topical parody any more. In fact, the place is overdue for a sequel: trendy new management styles etc bred new stereotypes, and the funnier old ones, like the industrial-rate smokers, have gone. Also a pity that Langford didn't include some of the more timeless anecdotes from the "old days", such as the day the guards found that a hundred yards of the fence had been stolen, the guard who (while practising quick draws to while the night away) shot himself in the foot, the dreadful hostel "Boundary Hall" with its wing of 1950s originals still in residence (known in the 1980s as "Death Row") and which was double-glazed throughout - the month before it was demolished.

But overall, a good book. Nice to see it back in print!

THE LEAKY ESTABLISHMENT
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THE LEAKY ESTABLISHMENT
LANGFORD
Manufacturer: COSMOS
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ASIN: B000S57QAY

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