Mastering group financial statements: A guide to International Financial Reporting Standards for groups

Mastering Group Financial Statements provides accounting students and practitioners with an invaluable practical guide to the often-complex world of group accounting. By using extensive and detailed explanations, along with numerous practical worked examples, the book gives readers a comprehensive overview of all the IFRS principles and concepts that are the basis of group accounting. It also includes a roadmap for preparing group financial statements in a number of different scenarios. Aside from giving readers a thorough technical knowledge, a key focus of Mastering Group Financial Statements is to teach accounting students practical exam techniques when answering group statement questions to maximise marks earned and minimise time spent answering such group financial statement questions. The focus on exam techniques is expanded with the selection of self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter. In addition, students will have free access ONLINE? to group financial statement questions, ranging from basic to advanced, together with a comprehensive set of solutions and value-added comments designed specifically to hone exam technique and time management skills. Lecturer support material is available to prescribing institutions, in the form of: Solutions to questions; A question bank and accompanying solutions with valuable comments, which can be used for tutorial purposes and to set test and exam questions; A teaching plan showing how to divide the topics into manageable chunks for students; and PowerPoint slides. Mastering Group Financial Statements can be summed up as making the difference - be it the difference between a good pass and a great pass, or simply in how students' approach their studies. All in all, it's the key to ensuring success.