by Steven M. Bragg (Author)

Quick answers to your GAAP questions

The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives today's busy financial executives the GAAP advice they need in a quick-reference format.

Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because it easily goes anywhere-to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting.

• Provides succinct answers to common GAAP questions
• Easy-to-use Q & A format offers hundreds of explanations supported by a multitude of examples, tables, charts, and ratios
• Other titles by Bragg: Running an Effective Investor Relations Department: A Comprehensive Guide, Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition, and Just-in-Time Accounting, Third Edition

Convenient and comprehensive, The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP is the handy reference you'll turn to again and again for quick answers to your GAAP questions.

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Includes:

• Shows when to use fair value
• Public company accounting requirements
• Covers foreign exchange accounting
• Industry-specific GAAP guidance
• Covers all major standards
• Hundreds of supporting examples

Get quick answers to all your GAAP questions

Presenting a question and answer format for the most common accounting problems arising from specific generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) topics, The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

This reliable reference goes anywhere you go--to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting, with helpful tools, including:

• Calculations
• Journal entries
• Flowcharts outlining various options
• Footnote disclosures
• Brief examples
• And much more!

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for understanding the day-to-day GAAP issues every accountant, controller, or CFO is sure to face, The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP is the handy pocket problem solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now, in the quick-reference format you need.

Author Biography

STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over forty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.

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