GAAP Guide Combo (2011)

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles:

• Accounting Changes
• Accounting Policies and Standards
• Advertising
• Balance Sheet Classification and Related Display Issues
• Bankruptcy and Reorganization
• Business Combinations
• Capitalization and Expense Recognition Concepts
• Cash Flow Statement
• Computer Software
• Consolidated Financial Statements
• Contingencies, Risks, and Uncertainties
• Convertible Debt and Debt with Warrants
• Deferred Compensation Contracts
• Depreciable Assets and Depreciation
• Development Stage Enterprises
• Earnings per Share
• Equity Method
• Extinguishment of Debt
• Fair Value
• Financial Instruments
• Foreign Operations and Exchange
• Government Contracts
• Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
• Income Taxes
• Installment Sales
• Intangible Assets
• Interest Costs Capitalized
• Interest on Receivables and Payables
• Interim Financial Reporting
• Inventory
• Investments in Debt and Equity Securities
• Leases
• Long-Term Construction Contracts
• Long-Term Obligations
• Nonmonetary Transactions
• Pension Plans
• Personal Financial Statements
• Postemployment and Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions
• Product Financing Arrangements
• Property Taxes
• Real Estate Transactions
• Related Party Disclosures
• Research and Development
• Results of Operations
• Revenue Recognition
• Segment Reporting
• Stock-Based Payments
• Stockholders’ Equity
• Transfer and Servicing of Financial Assets
• Troubled Debt Restructuring

Specialized Industry Accounting Principles:

• Banking and Thrift Institutions
• Entertainment
• Insurance
• Mortgage Banking
• Not-for-Profit Organizations
• Oil and Gas
• Pension Plans

• Joseph V. Carcello, Ph.D., CPA, CMA, CIA, is a William B. Stokely Distinguished Scholar and a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Carcello has published more than 40 articles in academic and professional journals. He is the co-author of a funded research study by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission titled Fraudulent Financial Reporting: 1987-1997, An Analysis of U.S. Public Companies. Dr. Carcello also is the co-author of a research monograph published by the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board titled Fraud-Related SEC Enforcement Actions Against Auditors: 1987-1997.

  Dr. Carcello has taught continuing professional education courses for two of the Big 4 accounting firms, the AICPA, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the Tennessee and Florida Societies of CPAs. He was a member of the Independence Standards Board’s Task Force on Accepting Employment with an Audit Client. Dr. Carcello currently serves on the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Board of Research Advisors.

• Terry L. Neal, Ph.D., CPA, is the Dennis Hendrix Professor in Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee. He also is a Research Fellow at the University of Tennessee’s Corporate Governance Center. Dr. Neal currently teaches a graduate course in advanced financial accounting topics, an undergraduate intermediate accounting course, and has taught undergraduate auditing. He has also taught continuing professional education courses for one of the Big 4 accounting firms for several years. Dr. Neal also serves as the director of the Ph.D. program in Accounting and teaches a doctoral seminar in empirical/archival research, with an emphasis on auditing and corporate governance issues.

• Judith Weiss, CPA, has an M.S. in Accounting from Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, and an M.S. in Education from Queens College, Flushing, New York. After several years in public accounting and private industry, she worked as a technical manager in the AICPA’s Accounting Standards Division, where she helped industry committees to develop Audit and Accounting Guides and Statements of Position. As a senior manager in the national offices of Deloitte & Touche LLP and Grant Thornton LLP, she was involved in projects related to standard-setting by the FASB and the AICPA. Ms. Weiss has followed the work of the EITF since its inception and has attended its meetings regularly since 1991. She has contributed to several books on accounting and auditing and has co-authored articles on accounting standards for several publications, including the Journal of Accountancy, The CPA Journal, The Journal of Real Estate Accounting and Taxation, and the Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance.