Dictionary of Accounting

  • 9h 14m
  • Roger Hussey (ed)
  • Oxford University Press (UK)
  • 1999

This authoritative dictionary will be invaluable to a range of students and professionals in the world of accounting and finance. Now substantially updated and expanded for this new edition, it is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of accounting available.

  • Over 3,500 entries
  • Comprehensive coverage of financial accounting, financial reporting, management accounting, direct and indirect taxation, corporate finance, and auditing
  • Straightforward definitions of the latest financial jargon, including hyperlink, expectation gap, acting inconcert, and push-down accounting

In this Book

  • A Dictionary of Accounting
  • A: AAA - avoidable costs
  • B: BAA - by-product
  • C: CAATs - cycle billing
  • D: daisy chain - duration
  • E: early repayment tax clause - extra-statutory concession
  • F: face value - FX
  • G: GAAP - guaranteed minimum pension
  • H: hacker - hypothecation
  • I: IAPC - ITF
  • J: JDS - just-in-time techniques (JIT techniques)
  • K: Keogh plan - know-how
  • L: labour costs (wages costs) - low-level language
  • M: machine hour - mutually exclusive projects
  • N: NAA - NYSE
  • O: objective function - own shares purchase
  • P: package - PYB
  • Q: qualified acceptance - quoted company
  • R: RAFT - running yield
  • S: SAEF - systems development controls
  • T: Table A - two-tier board
  • U: UITF - USM
  • V: value-added statement (added-value statement) - VRN
  • W: WACC - wrongful trading
  • YZ: Yankee bond - Z-score
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