Advanced Accounting or From International to World Society

Advanced Accounting

Author: Joe Ben Hoyl

The approach used by Hoyle, Schaefer, and Doupnik in the new edition allows students to think critically about accounting, just as they will do while preparing for the CPA exam. With this text, students gain a well-balanced appreciation of the Accounting profession. The 9th edition introduces the students to the field's many aspects, while focusing on past and present resolutions. The text continues to show the development of financial reporting as a product of intense and considered debate that continues today and into the future.

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The latest edition of a standard text (2nd edition was 1987) adds new chapters on international accounting and on trusts and estates, as well as expanded coverage of consolidation accounting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The equity method of accounting for investments	1
Ch. 2	Consolidation of financial information	35
Ch. 3	Consolidations - subsequent to the date of acquisition	93
Ch. 4	Consolidated financial statements and outside ownership	155
Ch. 5	Consolidated financial statements - intercompany asset transactions	211
Ch. 6	Variable interest entities, intercompany debt, consolidated cash flows, and other issues	258
Ch. 7	Consolidated financial statements - ownership patterns and income taxes	314
Ch. 8	Segment and interim reporting	364
Ch. 9	Foreign currency transactions and hedging foreign exchange risk	409
Ch. 10	Translation of foreign currency financial statements	469
Ch. 11	Worldwide accounting diversity and international standards	524
Ch. 12	Financial reporting and the securities and exchange commission	566
Ch. 13	Accounting for legal reorganizations and liquidations	590
Ch. 14	Partnerships : formation and operation	632
Ch. 15	Partnerships : termination and liquidation	670
Ch. 16	Accounting for state and local governments (part 1)	706
Ch. 17	Accounting for state and local governments (part 2)	756
Ch. 18	Accounting and reporting for private not-for-profit organizations	814
Ch. 19	Accounting for estates and trusts	853

Interesting book: Changing Appearances or Introduction to Engineering Statistics and Six SIGMA

From International to World Society?: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation

Author: Barry Buzan

How is the concept of society understood on a global scale, since members are not individuals, but states, firms, NGOs and nations? Barry Buzan offers an original contribution to the "English School" theory. His study establishes a new theoretical framework emphasizing social structure that can be used to address globalization as complex political interplay among state and non-state actors.

Foreign Affairs

Buzan, a leading scholar at the London School of Economics, has been instrumental in reinvigorating the English school of international relations, which focuses on the rules, norms, and institutions of the Western state system and sees world politics as driven by the interaction between Hobbesian power politics and Grotian shared norms and interests. In this illuminating study of modern global society, Buzan attacks the question of how the array of new cosmopolitan forces-the global linkages of peoples and societies-is affecting the old state system. Much of the book is an exploration of two alternate assessments of the essence of world society: a "pluralist" vision, in which states remain dominant and state sovereignty retains political and legal primacy, and a "solidarist" vision, which sees cosmopolitan values and universal norms weaving together a new global order. Buzan argues that these two logics coexist: the system of states, sovereignty, territory, nationalism, and great-power politics will increasingly mix with a much less coherent system of transnationalism, global markets, and universalistic society. This conclusion about the character of the global system is not new or surprising, but Buzan does nicely show the need to keep state-centered ways of thinking open to the murky forces of global society.