TY - BOOK AU - Jones, Stewart. TI - Financial accounting theory SN - 9780170182010 U1 - 657.044 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Australia PB - Cengage learning KW - International Accounting Standards Board KW - Accounting KW - Textbooks KW - Canada N1 - Contents; 1. The history and development of accounting 2. The nature and uses of accounting 3. Traditional approaches to the formulation of an accounting theory 4. The regulatory approach to the formulation of an accounting theory 5. A conceptual framework for financial accounting and reporting 6. The structure of accounting theory 7. Fairness, disclosure and future trends in accounting 8. Research perspectives in accounting 9. Accounting: a multiple paradigm science 10. The events and behavioral approach 11. The predictive and positive approaches 12. Current-value accounting 13. Alternative asset-valuation and income-determination models 14. International accounting and shift to IFRS 15. Social Accounting and sustainable reporting 16. Ethics ant the professional accountant; Includes bibliographical references and index ER -