Sharpen your accounting and finance skills with this comprehensive reference tool, Law in a Nutshell: Accounting & Finance for Lawyers. A well-rounded 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. Reviews accounting principles for many different areas, including investments, long-term debt, leases, stocks, and partnerships.
Features and Benefits include:
--Timesaving accounting outline and reference tool;
--Enhances understanding of accounting and finance principles;
--Addresses special reporting issues;
--Provides necessary tools to excel on exams.
Table of Contents includes:
 The Basic Financial Statements;
The Accounting Process;
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles;
Recognition of Revenue and Expenses;
Cuurent Assets and Liabilities;
Accounting for Inventories;
Property, Plant and Equipment and Depreciation;
Intangible Assets;
Accounting for Investments;
Accounting for Long Term Debt;
Accounting for Leases;
Accounting for Other Long Term Liabilities;
Accounting for Stock and Stockholders' Equity;
Partnership Accounting;
Accounting for Business Combinations;
Earnings per share and Financial Ratios;
Special Reporting Issues;
Corporate Finance--Valuation;
International Accounting Issues.
Don't let their small size fool you: West's Law in a Nutshell series represents the depth and breadth of the law in over a hundred different areas. Nutshells have a loyal following who swear by their succinct and easy to understand treatment of the law, and this particular title is a great illustration that learning the law doesn't have to be dry and confusing. |
