Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance

The aim of Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance is to give non-accounting students a basic ability and confidence to read and use financial accounting reports and statements within their business or financial specialties. Many employees in business today are expected to be conversant with reported accounting information as part of their regular job responsibilities. However, they often have little formal training in using such information.

This book is intended as a core textbook for non-accounting students who need some understanding of accounting. The students can be majoring in business either as undergraduates or graduates, or in non-business areas such as engineering, law and media. The theme of the book is financial reporting as an essential and significant part of corporate governance. The book can be used as a self-contained text to support a specific course or module. However, it is designed so that it can be built on in more advanced courses on the subject. For this reason, it may be used by specialist accounting students in introductory courses.

Author Biography

Thomas A Lee is Professor Emeritus of Accountancy at the University of Alabama and currently holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Dundee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and St Andrews.  Previous full-time professorships were held at the Universities of Liverpool and Edinburgh.  He has an MSc and DLitt from the University of Strathclyde and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, the Institute of Taxation, the American Accounting Association, and the British Accounting Association.  Professor Lee has published numerous teaching and research books, and research and professional papers and other contributions.  He is a member of several editorial boards of leading research journals, and has an international reputation in financial reporting, auditing, accounting history, and accounting professionalization.  He has won numerous awards for his published work and is frequently cited as one of the most published accounting researchers world-wide.  He received the British Accounting Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and is listed in publications such as Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.