World Economic Primacy or Financial Reporting and Analysis

World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990

Author: Charles P Kindleberber

Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography, the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve, at some period in their history, economic superiority over other countries, and what it is that makes them decline. Kindleberger begins with the Italian city-states in the fourteenth century, and traces the changing evolution of world economic primacy as it moves to Portugal and Spain, to the Low countries, to Great Britain, and to the United States, addressing the question of alleged U.S. decline. Additional chapters treat France as a perennial challenger, Germany which has twice aggressively sought superiority, and Japan, which may or may not become a candidate for the role of "number one." Kindleberger suggests that the economic vitality of a given country goes through a trajectory that can usefully (though not precisely) be compared to a human life cycle. Like human beings, the growth of a state can be cut off by accident or catastrophe short of old age; unlike human beings, however, economies can have a second birth. In World Economic Primacy, Kindleberger takes into account the influence of complex historical, social, and cultural factors that determine economic leadership. A brilliant overview of the position of nations in the world economy, World Economic Primacy conveys profound insights into the causes of the rise and decline of the world's economic powers, past and present.

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Financial Reporting and Analysis

Author: Lawrence Revsin

The CPA exam is changing. You need to change as well...to a book that better prepares you for the CPA exam and for business. This is the only book of its kind that demonstrates how to prepare financial reports and then how to analyze what those numbers really mean. Every manager has incentives to present his or her firm in the most favorable light to lenders, equity investors and others.And, every manager wants to use the flexibility allowed by GAAP to manage the firm's earnings to achieve certain goals.Revsine, Collins, and Johnson explain these incentives and help readers spot cases of earnings management, which disguises a firm's true performance. For anyone preparing to take the CPA exam, and for anyone who wants or needs a working knowledge of accounting, financial reporting, and financial statement analysis.

Table of Contents:

1. The Economic and Institutional Setting for Financial Reporting.

2. Accrual Accounting and Income Determination.

3. Additional Topics in Income Determination.

4. Structure of Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows.

5. Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis.

6. Role of Financial Information in Valuation.

7. Contracting.

8. Receivables.

9. Inventories.

10. Long-Lived Assets and Depreciation.

11. Liabilities.

12. Leases.

13. Income Tax Reporting.

14. Pensions and Postretirement Benefits.

15. Owners' Equity.

16. Inter-corporate Equity Investments.

17. Cash Flow Statement.

18. Overview of International Financial Reporting Differences and Inflation.