International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises

This text presents international accounting within the context of managing multinational enterprises, focusing on business strategies and how accounting applies to these strategies. This unique approach gives students the opportunity to learn about international accounting from a perspective similar to what they will experience in the business world. The book explains the key factors that influence accounting standards and practices in different countires, and how those factors impact the convergence of standards worldwide. Particular emphasis is given to culture and its unique contribution to accounting standards and practices worldwide. The book focuses on the needs of users of financial and accounting information across borders with the aim of enhancing their understanding of how to use information and make more informed decisions in an increasingly complex and dynamic international business environment.
About the Author: Lee Radebaugh, Ph.D., is the Director of the School of Accountancy and Information Systems and KPMG Professor of Accounting at Brigham Young University. In addition, he is the Executive Director of the BYU Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Professor Radebaugh is co-author of International Business Environments and Operations and International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises, and is the co-author of seven books on Canada-U.S. trade and investment relations. In 1998 he was named the "Outstanding International Educator" of the International Section of the American Accounting Association, and "International Person of the Year" by the World Trade Association of Utah.

Sidney J. Gray, Ph.D., is Professor of International Business and Head of the School of International Business in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales. He is also foundation Co-Director of the Australian Centre for International Business(a collaborative venture with the University of Melbourne). Professor gray has published in many leading journals around the world, and is the author/co-author of a number of books, including International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises and Financial Accounting: A Global Approach. In 1994 he as named "Outstanding International Accounting Educator" by the American Accounting Association.