The Accounting Jungle Author:Bill Jamieson A new and updated edition including many examples from recently published accounts. The Accounting Jungle tackles one of the most important problems besetting the modern commercial world - the fact that in all countries accounts have become so complex that they are unintelligible not only to the public at large, but also to many of the experts ... more »supposedly skilled in financial matters. Bill Jamieson's proposed solution to this crisis in accounting practice is to recast the format of the main accounting statements into a more understandable form. He illustrates his ideas with extracts from actual UK public company accounts, and shows how to approach such questions as: What is a company's real total indebtedness How the company's Cash Flow covers its working capital requirement What lies beneath "restructuring provisions" The valuation of goodwill« less