Accounting Trends and Techniques

This edition provides hundreds of illustrative examples from the actual financial statements of the country's most prominent publicly traded companies!

Accounting Trends & Techniques (Trends) surveys the annual reports of 500 carefully selected industrial, merchandising, technology, and service entities for fiscal periods ending between January and December 2009. Fully updated with all new presentation and disclosure examples, as well as narratives describing financial reporting requirements, Trends provides you with the tools you need to apply the complex reporting guidance within U.S. GAAP, including statistical data revealing the latest trends in presentation and disclosures.

With companies from virtually every sector - Google, Bristol-Meyers, Ford, and Target, to name just a few - you'll get a rich diversity of examples that will save you hours of time. Apply this practical guidance to develop tailored solutions for difficult reporting issues. To provide you with the most useful and comprehensive look at current financial reporting techniques and methods, Trends is organized by financial statement disclosure and offers:

· Illustrative presentation and disclosure examples selected by subject matter experts
· Guidance about reporting requirements
· Reporting trends revealing statistical data about current reporting practices
· Detailed, user-friendly indexes

You will find illustrations of disclosures and financial statement examples specific to the requirements found in:
· FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement
· FASB ASC 860, Transfers and Servicing
· FASB ASC 805, Business Combinations
· FASB ASC 810, Consolidation, Derivatives and Hedging