Accounting for M&A, Credit, & Equity Analysts

This book offers everything investment professionals need to know about accounting - in a practical desk reference format. In today's world of constantly changing accounting rules, models, and practices, investment professionals need an authoritative, all-in-one, fast-access reference for the latest knowledge and information. "Accounting for M&A, Equity, and Credit Analysts" provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand answers to the everyday accounting questions that come up time and again in the investing arena. Noted M&A accounting authority James E. Morris has spent years dispensing accounting advice on Wall Street, and he knows which questions consistently baffle even the most experienced investment pros.He answers those questions and hundreds more as he provides clear and concise explanations of areas including: subtle, less understood aspects of common accounting areas and procedures; purchase accounting for business combinations - essential not only for M&A analysts but for credit and equity analysts as well; and, accounting for employee stock options, and its effect on both earnings and cash flow. Today's investment accounting landscape is undergoing tumultuous and unprecedented change. Professionals who fail to keep up with that change risk being left behind. "Accounting for M&A, Equity, and Credit Analysts" updates you on virtually every important facet of investment accounting, and provides the handy reference you need to instantly know what the numbers are really saying to you--and, just as important, what they are not.'This is not, by any means, another financial accounting textbook. Instead, I intend it as a sort of spotlight, illuminating what I have found in my investment experience to be the 'black holes' of accounting. It is merely the collected answers to the questions that analysts (associates, vice presidents, managing directors and clients as well) have asked me during the time I spent giving accounting advice on Wall Street' - From the Prefa