The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in accounting.

A Rashad Abdel-khalik is Graduate Research Professor of Accounting at the University of Florida. From 1990 to 1994 he was the editor of the Accounting Review, the journal of the American Accounting Association. He was also the Director of Research for the American Accounting Association from 1980 to 1982.