Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Nutshell
Publisher: West Academic; West Publishing Company, College & School Division
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
ISBN-13: 9781634608510
Subjects: Commerce; Corporations, finance; Lawyers, handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: "This product provides a...summary of the relevant accounting areas from basic financial statements to complex earnings-per-share ratios and corporate finance and valuation. Learn how to recognize revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities. It reviews accounting principles for many different areas, including acquisitions, investments, long-term debt, leases, stocks, and partnerships. It also discusses recent developments such as adoption of new requirements to place most operating leases on the lessee’s balance sheet, a new principles based approach to accounting for revenue, refinements in the accounting for stock options, and revised rules for applying the lower of cost or market rule to inventory."--