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Financial Reporting
A Practical Guide
Third Edition
Alan Melville
FCA, BSc, Cert. Ed.
Financial Times
Prentice Hall
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of international standards
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CONTENTS
Derecognition
Disclosure requirements
Goodwill
IFRS3 Business Combinations
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Impairment of assets
Indications of impairment
Recoverable amount
Recognition and measurement of an
impairment loss
Cash-generating units
Reversal of impairment losses
Disclosure requirements
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VI
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Disclosure requirements
12 Provisions and events after the
reporting period
Recognition of a provision
Measurement of a provision
Application of the recognition and
measurement rules
Contingent liabilities and contingent
assets
Disclosure requirements
Events after the reporting period
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13 Revenue .
Definition of revenue
Measurement of revenue
Recognition of revenue: Sale of goods
Recognition of revenue: Rendering
of services
Recognition of revenue: Interest,
royalties and dividends
Disclosure requirements
Proposed new standard
Guidance to the implementation
of IAS 18
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14 Employee benefits
Short-term employee benefits
Post-employment benefits
Accounting for defined contribution
plans
Accounting for defined benefit plans
Other long-term employee benefits
Termination benefits
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16 Statement of cashflows
Cash and cash equivalents
Classification of cash flows by activity
Interest, dividends and taxes
Reporting cash flows from
operating activities
Disclosures
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22 Ratio analysis
Accounting ratios
Profitability ratios
Liquidity ratios
Efficiency ratios
Investment ratios
Limitations of ratio analysis
Multivariate ratio analysis
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24 Segmental analysis
Operating segments
Reportable segments
Disclosures reauired bv IFRS8
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VII
CONTENTS
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Part 6 ANSWERS
Answers to exercises
Index
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