TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,David AU - Nobes,Christopher TI - Financial accounting: an international introduction SN - 9781292295831 AV - HF5686.I56 A427 2020 U1 - 657 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Hoboken PB - Pearson KW - David Alexander KW - Accounting KW - Financial statements N1 - Revised edition of the authors' Financial accounting, [2016]; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Accounting began as a practical activity in response to perceived needs. It has progressed in the same way, adapting to meet changes in the demands made on it. Where the needs differed in different countries, accounting developed in different ways, essentially on the Darwinian principle: useful accounting survived"-- ER -