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I NSTRUCTOR’S S OLUTIONS M ANUALforFinancial AccountingTheorySeventh EditionWilliam R. ScottUniversity of WaterlooTorontoCopyright © 2015 Pearson Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario. All rights reserved. This work is protected by Canadian copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning. Dissemination or sale of any part of this work (including on the Internet) will destroy the integrity of the work and is not permitted. The copyright holder grants permission to instructors who have adopted Financial Accounting Theory, Seventh Edition, by William R. Scott to post this material online only if the use of the website is restricted by access codes to students in the instructor’s class that is using the textbook and provided the reproduced material bears this copyrightnotice.ContentsChapter 1 Introduction (1)Chapter 2 Accounting Under Ideal Conditions (7)Chapter 3 The Decision Usefulness Approach to Financial Reporting (68)Chapter 4 Efficient Securities Markets (129)Chapter 5 The Value Relevance of Accounting Information (153)Chapter 6 The Measurement Approach to Decision Usefulness (194)Chapter 7 Measurement Applications (237)Chapter 8 The Efficient Contracting Approach to Decision Usefulness (285)Chapter 9 An Analysis of Conflict (321)Chapter 10 Executive Compensation (371)Chapter 11 Earnings Management (425)Chapter 12 Standard Setting: Economic Issues (487)Chapter 13 Standard Setting: Political Issues (527)Copyright © 2015 Pearson Canada Inc.。
财会与Financial accounting的联系与区别当今社会经济全球化日益发展，国家之间的贸易往来日益频繁，为适应这种全球化的趋势，各国的会计准则都在一次次的改革中不断向国际会计准则靠拢，国家之间的会计准则差异日益缩小。
本学期我们分别学习了中国的财务会计和英国的财务会计，对两国会计准则上的联系与区别有一些个人的理解，也深刻感受到了蕴藏在会计准则之后的两国文化和思维方式的差异。
首先谈谈二者的联系。
随着商品经济的发展，企业组织形式、组织结构和经济活动越来越复杂，企业经营管理水平越来越高，企业的经营权和所有权逐渐分离，在企业外部形成了直接和间接的利益相关者。
他们不参与企业的经营管理，但都是企业会计信息的外部使用者，他们主要通过企业定期递送或发布的财务会计报告中了解气的的财务状况和经营成果。
财务会计就主要服务于这些利益相关者，为他们提供有用的信息。
这是两国的财务会计共通的地方。
并且在大部分的业务处理上两国都是相似的，只有细微的区别。
其次说说二者的区别。
在我看来，中英两国财务会计的主要区别在于文化差异，英国人比较保守，而且思维不如中国人复杂。
例如，英国资产负债表会将固定资产列在前面而中国资产负债表是将流动资产列在前面的。
英国的会计科目比中国的少，分类没有中国的细。
例如，中国的期间费用会分为管理费用、财务费用、销售费用，而英国的费用一般都是直接以那项费用命名，如rent,electricity等等，直接计入当期损益，没有那么多分类。
在会计处理上也比中国的简单、直接很多，例如产品的销售成本都是倒轧出来的，不考虑库存商品或材料的自然损耗，不像中国的处理那么细致。
以上就是我对中国和英国财务会计关系的一些粗浅的理解，它们之间更深刻的关系留待从以后的学习中获取。
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