Accounting for Growth: Stripping the Camouflage from Company Accounts

by Terry Smith

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-28

From the Back Cover:
Accounting for Growth is a deliberate play on words: Was most of the growth seen in company profits during the 1980s due to the improved efficiency of British industry or was it generated from the manipulation of profits by creative accounting?

Terry Smith strips away the camouflage of creative accounting to allow readers to examine company accounts afresh and decide whether profits are genuine and how strong a company’s finances really are.

Each of the creative accounting techniques examined is accompanied by examples from actual public company reports and accounts to enable readers to follow the techniques used and to perform their own analysis.

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Century Business Ltd. (1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0712657649
• ISBN-13: 978-0712657648