Accounting Resources: Books

This handbook collects the most up-to-date scholarship, knowledge, and new developments of big data and data analytics by bringing together many strands of contextual and disciplinary research.

To date, communication research in accounting has largely focused on the competencies that define what constitutes 'effective communication.” This book investigates dominant Global North-centric views about communication and interrogates what shapes these views in the accounting field from a Global South perspective, exploring the idea of 'good communication' in the globalized accounting field. Taking the occupational stereotype of shy employees who are good with numbers but bad with words as its starting point, this book examines language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and work in the Philippines for an exploration of multilingual, multimodal and transnational workplace communication.

This book covers every aspect of forensic accounting, anti-fraud control systems, and fraud investigations. The author uses his own case experience to guide the reader through each phase of a forensic accounting assignment and fraud investigation. The book opens with an explanation of what happened to a company that was ensnared in a huge commodity purchasing scheme. Using his knowledge and experience gained over 40 years, the author illustrates that unexpected fraud occurrences can happen to any company, in any industry.

Straightforward, practical guidance for working fraud examiners and forensic accountants. The author, acertified fraud examiner, former FBI support employee, private investigator, and certified public accountant, delivers a step-by-step guide to financial investigation that can be applied to almost any forensic accounting use-case.

Intended as a complete guide to internal auditing for the modern world, this eighth edition covers the fundamental information that you need to make your role as internal auditor effective, efficient, and accurate. Originally written by one of the founders of internal auditing, Vic Brink and now fully updated and revised by internal controls and IT specialist, Robert Moeller, this new edition reflects the latest industry changes and legal revisions. Through the information provided in this inclusive text, you explore how to maximize your impact on your company by creating higher standards of professional conduct and greater protection against inefficiency, misconduct, illegal activity, and fraud. There are informative discussions on how to plan and perform internal audits including the information technology (IT) security and control issues that impact all enterprises today. A key feature of this book is a detailed description of an internal audit Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK), key governance; risk and compliance topics that all internal auditors need to know and understand.

This accessible and innovative textbook adopts a practical, transactions-centered approach to contract law by using contract clauses to explain doctrinal concepts. While reading this book, students will gain a working knowledge of important contract provisions and learn how to use contracts to prevent problems, reduce risks, and add value to transactions. Assigned reading for some MPAc classes.

Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. This book shows how different groups and individuals around the globe have succeeded or failed in not paying their due taxes, whether in kind or in cash, on their properties or on their crops. The authors are experts in fiscal, economic, financial, legal, social and/or cultural history. The book is intended for students, researchers and scholars of economic and financial history, social and world history and political economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license. Click this link to see others in the Financial History book series.

The book takes a comprehensive approach and looks in more depth at the systemic roles that crises play in contemporary tax systems. The book shows how crises place strain on the basic functions of tax, including revenue-raising, institution-building, regulation, redistribution, and the structuring of society. These strains bear more heavily on some sections of business and society than others. This makes the tax consequences of crisis unpredictable. It also means that the best choice of legal response is not merely a technical matter.

This book traces the evolution of the global public accounting profession through a series of scandals leading to voluntary or mandated reforms, describing 16 of the most audacious accounting frauds of the last 80 years, and identifying the accounting standards and legislation adopted as a direct consequence of each scandal.

This book is divided into two thematic sections: the first covers developments in accounting thought on financial reporting and the accountancy profession; and the second section covers developments related to accounting measurements and theory.