The Knowledge Centre team writes reviews on a few key titles added to our collection each month. Please contact the Knowledge Centre on 1800 809 828 or via email on knowledge@charteredaccountants.com.au if you would like to borrow an item.  
 
Estate and business succession planning handbook: a practical and strategic guide for accountants, financial planners and lawyers by Bernie O’Sullivan. Published by the Taxation Institute of Australia, Sydney, NSW in 2008.  
A practical and strategic guide for accountants, financial planners and lawyers. The text covers wills, trusts, asset protection, superannuation, pensions, deceased estates, business succession planning, international and much more. 
 
Financial accounting by Walter Harrison and Charles Horngren. Published by Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ in 2008.  
The seventh edition of Financial Accounting focuses on the fundamentals of financial accounting and the accounting cycle. This publication covers financial statements, transaction analysis, accrual accounting and income, internal control and cash, short and long-term investments, liabilities, stockholders’ equity and financial statement analysis. 
 
Forensic accounting by William Hopwood, Jay Leiner and George Young. Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Boston in 2008. 
The text provides a comprehensive view of fraud investigation. Where other books focus almost entirely on auditing and financial reporting, Hopwood includes a vast range of civil and criminal accounting fraud and related activities, from false business valuations and employer fraud to information security and counter-terrorism.  
 
The speed of trust: the one thing that changes everything by Stephen Covey and Rebecca Merrill. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York in 2006. This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver - a learnable and measurable skill that makes organisations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in so doing to create unparalleled success and sustainable prosperity in every dimension of life. He shows business, government, and education leaders how to quickly and permanently gain the trust of their clients, coworkers, partners, and constituents. Trust begins within each of us personally, continues into our relationships, expands into our organisations, extends into our marketplace relationships and ultimately encompasses our global society. 
 
Fraud and corruption control by Standards Australia. Published by Standards Australia, Sydney in 2008. This standard has been produced to provide an outline for a suggested approach to controlling fraud and corruption in organisations. Areas covered include: developing a fraud and corruption control plan; implementing practical measures to prevent fraud and corruption; detecting fraudulent activity; and responding to this activity once detected. 
 
Last updated: 15 October 2008