(Ebook) More than a numbers game : a brief history of accounting by Thomas A King ISBN 9780470008737, 0470008733

(Ebook) More than a numbers game : a brief history of accounting by Thomas A King ISBN 9780470008737, 0470008733

"More Than a Numbers Game takes a detailed look at more than one hundred years of corporate accounting history in the United States - from the initial use of double-entry bookkeeping to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) - and shows how accounting has solved numerous financial problems as well as created substantial controversy along the way."--Jacket. Content: About the cover -- Preface -- 1. Double-entry -- 2. Railroads -- 3. Taxes -- 4. Costs -- 5. Disclosure -- 6. Standards -- 7. Science -- 8. Inflation -- 9. Volatility -- 10. Intangibles -- 11. Debt -- 12. Options -- 13. Earnings -- 14. SOX -- 15. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. Abstract: In More Than a Numbers Game, practitioner and financial expert Tom King examines the key issues and events that have transformed accounting from a tool used by 19th century American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud during the 2002 telecom crash.