Accounting for Prosperity: How Modern Accounting Informs Economic Decisions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780262060622)

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Accounting for Prosperity: How Modern Accounting Informs Economic Decisions

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Accounting for Prosperity: How Modern Accounting Informs Economic Decisions

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Format: Hardcover
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How accounting can help society achieve greater prosperity by enabling investors to make better investment decisions.

Accounting for Prosperity reveals how modern financial accounting can help economic decision makers, such as business executives and policymakers, lead their organizations and society to greater prosperity by enabling investors to make more informed--and thus more efficient--investment decisions.

Challenging the conventional perception of accounting as "counting beans," modern accounting transforms the economic activities of firms into decision-useful information. Mary Barth and Wayne Landsman trace the origins of modern financial accounting from the 1929 Stock Market Crash through the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and into the modern era. They present findings from cutting-edge accounting research from the past 50 years in a way that is engaging and accessible.

The book can help:
  • investors interpret information in financial reports and use that knowledge to inform investment decisions;
  • business executives improve communication with investors through financial reporting, thereby improving effectiveness at raising capital for their firms;
  • standard setters and securities market regulators choose accounting alternatives that provide investors with more decision-useful information; and
  • other policymakers understand how investor and business executive responses to public policies are likely to affect the economy.

Insights from the book also can enable finance and accounting professionals to offer better advice and assurance.

Author: Mary E. Barth,Wayne R. Landsman
ISBN-10: 0262060620
ISBN-13: 9780262060622
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2027
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
By Mary E. Barth
By Mary E. Barth
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Mary E. Barth is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emerita, at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. Barth is a prolific researcher whose award-winning research focuses on financial accounting and reporting. She has served as Vice Chair of the Financial Accounting Foundation Board of Trustees and as a member of the International Accounting Standards Board. Barth was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2018.

Wayne R. Landsman is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published over seventy articles in academic and professional accounting journals, several of which have received prestigious awards. Landsman has served as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council and as a consultant to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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