International Accounting: A User Perspective [Paperback]

Shahrokh M. Saudagaran (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0324186207 | ISBN-13: 978-0324186208 | Publication Date: April 4, 2003 | Edition: 2

As business and capital markets have continued to grow more global over recent years, the need for cross-border financial information has correspondingly increased. This has brought international accounting to the forefront. International Accounting: A User Perspective is designed to provide an understanding of international accounting issues to current and future business managers. The book takes a user perspective to international financial reporting because most business executives are more likely to be users of financial information that crosses national borders than users of it. With the recent problems exposed in the quality of financial reporting in many countries, a solid understanding of international accounting issues is an important part of the portfolio of skills that managers in medium and large enterprises must possess.

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About the Author

Shahrokh Saudagaran, Ph.D., CPA, is Head of the School of Accounting and Arthur Andersen Alumni Centennial Professor at Oklahoma State University. In 1997-1998, he served as President of the American Accounting Associations's International Accounting Section. He currently serves as Secretary General of the Asian Academic Accounting Association. Professor Saudagaran has earned national recognition for both his teaching and research. In addition to receiving numerous teaching awards, he also received several awards for his scholarship. He was selected the KPMG Peat Marwick Research Fellow (1989-91) and the KPMG Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow (1991-94). His work has been published in the top accounting, finance, and international business journals. He consults and teaches executive seminars in international accounting and finance for corporations in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Dr. Saudagaran has served on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals including the Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and the Journal of International Accounting Research. Dr. Saudagaran obtained his Ph.D. (1986) from the University of Washington in Seattle, his MBA from the Iran Center for Management Studes in Tehran, and his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay in India. He is also licensed as a CPA in Washington state. He is a member of the Academy of International Business, the American Accounting Association, the European Accounting Association, the Asian Academic Accounting Association, and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research. Before entering academia, he worked as a management consultant with Ernst & Young and as Financial Controller with Van Leeuwen Buizenhandel BV, a Dutch multinational.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 2 edition (April 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324186207
• ISBN-13: 978-0324186208
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,441,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hope 3rd Ed. is better., December 10, 2009

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John E. Foster (Beijing China) - See all my reviews
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I own and have used both the first and second editions. Used the second edition for teaching. It is rather thin on useful, current material and at best out of date. I haven't seen the third edition but I suggest as for a survey class intended to build vocabulary, it is OK.

Radebaugh is a better introductory test but Doupnik is the best text I have found to cover International Accounting. The Choi text is difficult to read with many passages hitting 17 and 18 on the Gunning Fog Index.

4.0 out of 5 stars Need to be updated., June 8, 2010

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A decent textbook for business student. But figures need to be updated, as even in this version ,some of them are still not up to date, for instance, about the countries which have adopted IFRS, the charts in the book are definitely out of date. This is not a big deal to any serious business student who will check that online.Other than this, this is a well written international accounting book. Recommend!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oustanding material!, June 14, 2001

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"yaiyelokun" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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International Accounting by S. Saudagaran is an outstanding material on the vital aspects of International Accouting. While easy to read, it is also thought-provoking and idea-inspiring. While comprehensible, it is also comprehensive. These combinations are hard to find in Accounting texts and endear this book to its many users.

The world is fast becoming a global village and in this wake of globalization, it is pertinent to understand the inherent diversities in financial reporting and its implications on business. This was well handled in the text. The chapters on the diverse roles of Accounting in different countries, diversity in financial reporting, globabal harmonisation and its various dimensions, a thorough discussion on related accounting standards and the environemtal implications are extremely helpful

I will highly recommend this book to students of Accounting and any other individual who wants a thorough synopis of accounting in the global village.