Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Possible sources of help for Prof. Shon's accounting students

Prof. John Shon's accounting students have an assignment to apply IAS 16 to a fact situation. They have a short handout that the professors prepared about online access to IAS 16, but in case they come to the desk without it:

Online access is only available through CCH Accounting Research Manager. There is a limit of two users at a time.

If they want explanatory information, I would suggest either searching CUNY+ for books on international accounting standards, such as Miller Accounting Standards Guide, or going to Books 24x7, which has made books on international accounting standards. Once they do a keyword search for those, they could limit their searches to IAS 16.

They are also asked to prepare their answer in a memo format. I am suggesting that they check out the information about memos in The Little, Brown Handbook, or again Books 24x7, which has many books on business corrrespondence. Limiting those results to memos worked better than "memorandum."

They are also to include journal entries. I don't know what the journal entries should be. The Miller International Accounting Standards Guide and the other sources might have some examples.

Although I have received a number of requests for individual meetings, this is all I know to tell the students.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Rita

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