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Offers an examination of the various factors that affect the judgement/decision process in an accounting setting. This is particularly important, according to the author, in an era of multinational corporations and global markets. Factors examined include national and organizational culture.

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Presents algorithms and reporting techniques for leasing and buy-or-lease decisions.

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Morality in Accounting will be of special value to the producers and users of accounting, and to graduate and undergraduate students of the accounting discipline.

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Written for both corporate accountants and advanced students of accounting, this volume offers comprehensive coverage of multinational financial accounting issues.

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As multinational firms struggle to compete in a global economy, their operating and accounting decisions are being made in an environment that's characterized by fluctuating exchange rates, innovative and flexible organizational structures, and a dynamic and diverse control strategy.

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What is the true nature of multinationality and what are its impacts on firm performance This text considers these questions through an examination of the nature of multinationality where firm performance is expressed by firm value, financial performance and corporate financing.

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The thesis here is that since multinationality impacts the conduct of corporate operations, it affects and explains the relationships between earnings, efficiency, disclosure quality, and market variation. Riahi-Belkaoui (accounting, U. of Illinois, Chicago) argues that understanding of multinationa

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Riahi-Belkaoui's research shows that U.S. firms, and possibly firms elsewhere, resort to the underutilization of their resources, a phenomenon known as organizational and budgetary slack.

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Value added reporting provides a better measure of the wealth produced by a firm than other methods, says Riahi-Belkaoui in this research-based analysis. Empirical studies of its uses in Europe support the author's contention and provide a compelling argument for its use in the United States.

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Riahi-Belkaoui examines the performance results of a multinational strategy and concludes that multinationality can be quantified and does play a significant role in keeping a firm healthy and growing.

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Quality is an important competitive issue as customers demanding quality make it imperative to businesses to take it into serious consideration. This book, with an accounting perspective, examines how to define quality concepts as they relate to the specific activities of particular companies.

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Dr. Riahi-Belkaoui calls for new, higher standards of research into accounting and its problems. To understand this he compares the perspectives or visions used by researchers in other fields to what is desirable in the accounting field, outlining six areas of critical concern to accounting professionals and scholars.

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Riahi-Belkaoui outlines an approach that helps U.S. multinationals operating worldwide reduce their tax burden.

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In this book, Belkaoui turns his attention to significant problems he sees facing the accounting profession as a whole and examines their effects on the way accounting is practiced, on accountants' clients, and on business in general.

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Accounting may be viewed and analyzed as its own special sort of language says Riahi-Belkaoui, and accounting is the language of business.

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Riahi-Belkaoui argues that the multidivisional organizational structure is far superior to the standard, functional form of corporate organization.

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Riahi-Belkaoui's contingency approach to disclosure adequacy identifies determinants based on cultural, linguistic, political, civil, economic and demographic relativisms, on legal and tax relativisms and even on religious relativism.

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This text examines the characteristics of environments that give rise to political risk, explores the relationship between low economic growth and high political risk, and differentiates between definitions and forecasting models of political risk.

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Belkaoui examines several innovative forms of financial reporting and disclosure emerging in various countries and how they can hamper attempts to harmonize accounting standards internationally.

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Designed to provide a conceptual framework for management accounting. The student as well as the practitioner in management accounting should be aware not only of the new multidisciplinary scope of the field but also of the conceptual foundations which justify this extended scope.

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In Chapter Six he turns to the relationship between the level of corporate reputation and managers' ccounting choices, and in Chapter Seven examines the value relevance of earnings, cash flows, multinationality, and corporate reputation.

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It is clear that value added methods provide relevant, useful information for financial analysis, market valuation, and financial decision making in corporate settings.

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Riahi-Belkaoui shows that the value added statement can be easily derived from the income statement and is therefore easily adaptable to the needs of U.S. companies.

To illustrate the usefulness of the value added statement, Riahi-Belkaoui devotes Chapter 1 to a thorough discussion of its many benefits.