Corporate controller's handbook of financial management

Joel G. Siegel, Jae K. Shim, Nicky A. Dauber, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632, [phone], 1991, 1,000+ pages plus appendices reflecting present and future value tables--A likely candidate for the corporate library, this reference book is described by the authors as "...comprehensive, authoritative, and practical... directed toward financial officers and managers, controllers, treasurers, chief accountants, management accountants, and others." It is everything they promise.

The 47 chapters are divided into 10 "parts." Part One (chapters 1-4) introduces the reader to the function of the controller in the corporate environment. Part Two describes generally accepted accounting principles (chapters 5-10). Thus, the first 10 chapters define...