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John Flower with Gabi Ebbers, editors, Global Financial Reporting.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of International Accounting Research
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04
Format: Online - approximately 881 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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JOHN FLOWER WITH GABI EBBERS, editors, Global Financial Reporting, 1st edition (New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002, xxvii, 677pp).

This book has five parts. The first part, "Background," has three chapters that introduce the reader to the diversity of reporting and reasons for it and briefly in...

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...cover regulations.

The second part has six chapters that cover accounting Britain, the U.S., France, Germany, Japan (the five countries referred to as the countries of the "Pentad") and accounting in the European Union (ELI). The structure of coverage for the Pentad countries is similar. The authors have chosen to emphasize European countries rather than the EU because of the limiting influence of the EU on the financial reporting of the member states.

The third part of this book has five chapters, four of them...

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