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A look at over 100 years of corporate accounting history, this text 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...
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Wiley,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley finance series
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119196556 |
| Summary: |
A look at over 100 years of corporate accounting history, this text 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. |
| Item Description: | Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 16, 2007). |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages : illustrations). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119196556 1119196558 0470041773 9780470041772 1280551550 9781280551550 |
| Index Number: | HF5616 |
| CLC: | F23 |
| Contents: | Double-entry -- Railroads -- Taxes -- Costs -- Disclosure -- Standards -- Science -- Inflation -- Volatility -- Intangibles -- Debt -- Options -- Earnings -- SOX -- Epilogue. |