The Debate on Inflation Accounting (Paperback)

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Debate: 2. Inflation accounting before the Second World War; 3. Developments in inflation accounting from the Second World War to 1974; 4. The contemporary British debate I: the watershed of the CPP experiment, 1973; 5. The contemporary British debate II: the Sandilands Committee and its report (1974?75); 6. The contemporary British debate III: ED18 to SSAP16 (1976?83); 7. Inflation accounting in the USA (1975?80); 8. Inflation accounting in Australiasia; 9. Inflation accounting in other countries; 10. The present state of inflation accounting throughout the world; Part II. Causes and Consequences: 11. Competing systems of accounting for price changes; 12. Particular issues: valuation, capital maintenance and the gain on borrowing; 13. The course of the debate: causes and influences; 14. Accounting standards and the future of the inflation accounting debate; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.