1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454013203321

Autore

Garner Don E.

Titolo

Accounting and the global economy after Sarbanes-Oxley / / Don E. Garner, David L. McKee, and Yosra AbuAmara McKee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70676-8

1-317-47783-9

1-282-11933-8

9786612119330

0-7656-2460-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McKeeDavid L

McKeeYosra AbuAmara <1948->

Disciplina

657.02/1873

Soggetti

Corporations - Accounting - Standards

Corporations - Auditing - Standards

International economic relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Accounting and the Global Economy After Sarbanes-Oxley; Contents; Introduction; Part I The General Frame of Reference; 1 Accounting and Auditing Standards as Operating Parameters in the Global Economy; 2 Overview of Accounting Standards in the Global Economy; 3 The Role of Auditing Standards; 4 Changing Realities in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era; Part II Some Specific Issues Facing Accounting and Auditing Practice; 5 The Harmonization of Auditing Standards; 6 Independence as a Growing Problem for Accounting Firms; 7 The Firms and Locational Adjustments in the Global Financial System

8 The Impact of the Internet and Improving Communications SystemsPart III The Firms in the New Global Environment; 9 Firm Effectiveness in the Face of Emerging Accounting and Auditing Standards; 10 The Firms and the Practical Issues of Adjustment in the Global Economy; References; Index; About the Authors



Sommario/riassunto

This book is essential for students and practitioners in accounting, international business, finance, and economics. In a straightforward and readable style, it focuses on the changing accounting and auditing standards in national and global economies in the post-Enron/Arthur Andersen era.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779051003321

Autore

Varma Rashmi

Titolo

The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-80402-1

1-283-44292-2

9786613442925

0-203-82781-3

1-136-80403-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 34

Disciplina

809/.93321732

Soggetti

Cities and towns in literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities.

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages



three key theoretical frameworks-the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the cons