Financial Accounting or Behind East Asian Growth

Financial Accounting

Author: Jan Williams

While many texts characterize themselves as having either a “user” approach or a “preparer” approach, Williams’ Financial Accounting is written for faculty who want to strike a balance between these approaches. Business majors will find relevance in the “Ethics, Fraud & Corporate Governance,” “Your Turn” and “Case in Point” boxes throughout the chapters while accounting majors will receive a firm grounding in accounting basics that will prepare them for their intermediate course. A unique feature is the multimedia companion, My Mentor. This text-specific technology resource (available free on the book’s website) uses video clips, animated graphics, PowerPoints and Excel templates to demonstrate accounting concepts visually. This allows students to link concepts and numbers together in an interactive rather than print environment.

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Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity

Author: Henry S Rowan

East Asian countries have adopted remarkably good policies to ensure sustained economic growth, but how did they come to adopt such policies in the first place? This book produces a more thorough explanation than has previously been advnced drawing on several disciplines including contributions from anthropologists, economists, political scientists, technologists, demographers, historians and psychologists. Several contributors have also held high positions in Asian governments. Four broad themes are identified: effective governance; achieving and learning societies; growth with equity; and external influences. This is the most comprehensive account of the foundations of East Asia's rise. Its distinctiveness lies in the range of comparisons across countries and in the wide array of contributing disciplines.

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Brings together experts in fields including anthropology, economics, political science, and psychology, as well as government officials, to uncover the reasons for East Asia's rise in economic power. Material is organized in sections according to four key factors identified: effective governance, achieving and learning societies, growth with equality, and external influences. Specific topics include education, poverty reduction, national security, and political foundations of the economic miracle. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Editor's foreword
1	The political and social foundations of the rise of East Asia: an overview	1
2	Constructing the political foundations of an economic miracle	39
3	Distinctive institutions in the rise of industrial Asia	60
4	Business, politics and policy in East and Southeast Asia	78
5	Singapore's model of development: is it transferable?	105
6	Economic reform in Indonesia: the transition from resource dependence to industrial competitiveness	126
7	Human capital: how the East excels	147
8	Education in Korea and Malaysia	165
9	Science and technology policy and its influence on economic development in Taiwan	185
10	Poverty reduction in Indonesia	209
11	Demographic transition, education and economic growth in East Asian countries	234
12	How many models of Japanese growth do we want or need?	265
13	Japan's influence on the East Asian economies	297
14	National security and the rise of the developmental state in South Korea and Taiwan	319
15	What are the lessons from East Asia?	341
	Index	348