Corporate Controller’s Handbook of Financial Management (2015-2016)

CCH's Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions. The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence. CONTENTS: The 2015-2016 edition of the Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management contains 60 chapters covering the following topic areas: -- Responsibilities of the Controller -- SEC Reporting -- Controller's Reports -- Information Technology Applications, including chapters on database management systems and the client/server environment, and using computers in financial decision making, and XBRL, cloud computing, and wireless technology -- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including financial statement reporting, accounting and disclosures, interim and segmental reporting, and more -- Management Accounting, including product costing systems and classifications, joint products and by-products, analysis of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis and leverage, cost allocation, contribution margin analysis for nonroutine decisions