International Accounting Standards: A Practical Guide

This book summarizes each International Accounting Standard in order to provide a broad and basic understanding of the key issues for each standard. In addition to these short summaries, each chapter contains a case study that stresses the practical application of key concepts in a particular standard. This provides the non-technical reader with the tools to participate in discussions on the appropriateness and application of a standard to a given situation. 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. This publication has been published previously in Russian-English and French-English editions. The second edition is the only English only version of this publication.Hennie Van Greuning is the author of 'International Accounting Standards: A Practical Guide' with ISBN 9780821349991 and ISBN 0821349996.