Accounting

For a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read guide to fixing those all-too-common shortcomings in your accounting department, look no further than this excellent book. Steve Bragg provides hundreds of fixes, many of them requiring surprisingly little time or cost while providing a handy guide to common implementation pitfalls.

This volume of Advances in Management Accounting explores a variety of current issues through rigorous academic research. Topics include the link between CEO compensation and the 2008 financial crisis, the association between performance-based pay and employee honesty, and more.

The second edition of Count Down is revised to include and discuss developments affecting the Big Four and their business model since the December 2015 release of the first edition. Examples of updates include: The Big Four's growth to collective global 2016 revenue of $128 billion, and continued disparities in growth between their Audit and Advisory practices. The imposition of mandatory auditor rotation by legislation and regulation in the European Union, and in the US, the PCAOB's requirement to name lead partners on public company audits. Examples of corporate financial malfeasance and potentially disruptive auditor litigation, involving clients of each of the Big Four.

Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting is devoted to publishing high-quality research and cases that focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face.