Financial Statements -- Present and Future Scope

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Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

ISBN: 1-56720-392-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-392-9

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200 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 5/30/2001

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: The commonly used financial statements--balance sheet, income statement, and statement of changes in cash flows-- focus on a firm's financial structure and performance over a defined period of time. Although they may conform to generally accepted accounting standards they still fail to provide other information that is equally important to achieving true full disclosure. Riahi-Belkaoui proposes remedies for this neglect by taking a close look at other types of statements: the inflation, value added, employee, social performance, and human asset reports. His book is a concise, easily accessed summary of all types of reports, for practitioners, and especially useful as a text or review for students in graduate level courses in financial management and accounting.

The author begins by examining the traditional statements. He shows how they fail to disclose vital information on the measurement and impact of inflation; the measurement of total wealth generated by the total production team, not merely its return to stockholders; necessary information on employees, and about them, that can be useful in management decision making; the measurement of social costs and the benefits attributable to the effects of organizational behavior on the environment, and the measurement of the value of human assets. He takes up these failures and neglects one by one and provides concise discussions of the other, less widely used statements that could remedy them, statements that could provide a fully useful display of an organization's financial well being, if they were better understood and commonly available.

Table of Contents:

List of Exhibits
Preface
The Balance Sheet
The Income Statement
The Statement of Cash Flows
The Inflation Report
The Value Added Report
The Employee Report
The Social Performance Report
The Human Asset Report
Index

About the Author: AHMED RIAHI-BELKAOUI is CBA Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of numerous Quorum Books, published or forthcoming, and coauthor of several more, he is also a prolific contributor to the scholarly and professional journals of his field, and has served on various editorial boards that oversee them.

LCC Class: 657


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