Acknowledgements

It is my pleasure to acknowledge and thank the countless individuals and organizations that contributed to the development of this book. I cannot list them all, but special mention should be made of the International Accounting Standards Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US, and the Accounting Standards Board in the UK (the IASB, FASB and ASB – you will meet these and other acronyms in Chapter 2 and beyond) and their counterparts in many other countries.

I must also thank Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com) and the Cyber-dynamics Group (www.cyber-dynamics.com) for their assistance with the spreadsheet issues and for developing various financial tools which are available for download from this book’s ...

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