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COBIT 5 - DEVELOPMENT UPDATE 07 July 2010 ISACA has received nearly 3,000 comments from more than 600 business and IT professionals during the first public exposure period for the draft design paper of COBIT 5, which will be a major evolution of the COBIT framework as the next generation of ISACA’s guidance on the enterprise governance of IT, incorporating the latest governance and management guidance. More details in our full news item. [AL]

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Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

SPECIAL OFFER! - Emerald is pleased to offer all users of AccountingEducation.com FREE access to selected articles from AAAJ.

The journal, now in its 23rd volume, will publish eight issues in 2010. At least one article from each issue will be freely accessible!

Latest addition - "Accounting for the city by Irvine Lapsley, Peter Miller and Fabrizio Panozzo (AAAJ - Vol. 23 Iss. 3)

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Course of the Week

MBA in Corporate Governance and Responsibility at the University of Birmingham (UK) - now recruiting for September 2010 start (Limited places remaining) Click here for full details of this and other related MBAs on offer

	Book of the Week
	Financial Accounting: IFRS Edition by Jerry Weygandt, Paul Kimmel, Donald Kieso

	Latest Job
	Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Accounting 23 March 2010 LeTourneau University, School of Business, Longview, Texas, USA

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	Review of Accounting Studies - European-American Conference on Accounting Research 22 September 2006 - 23 September 2006 ( 2 days ) Call for Papers Review of Accounting Studies European-American Conference on Accounting Research September 22-23, 2006 INSEAD Business School Fontainebleau, France The editors of the Review of Accounting Studies are pleased to announce a European-American Conference on Accounting Research to be held at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France September 22-23, 2006.... Event added 09/02/06

	Latest Library Item
	Double Entries 16.13 07 July 2010 Author(s): Andrew Priest and Andy Lymer Type: Double Entries Archive Double Entries Newswire Issue 16.13 June 24 2010

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	GAAPWeb Accountancy Jobs 24 June 2010 GAAPweb is a specialist job site for high calibre accountancy and financial professionals including roles in banking, accountancy, and CIMA, ACCA, ACA.

	Latest Journal Article
	Sorting and comparing: Standard-setting and ‘ethical’ categories. By Joni J Young and Paul F. Williams Journal: Critical Perspectives on Accounting (Academic Press) Issue Details: Volume:21, Issue:6, Month:08, Year:2010 The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) describes its public interest function as “…developing standards that result in accounting for similar transactions and circumstances in a like manner and different transactions and circumstances…in a different manner (Facts about FASB).” This statement implies that rule-makers possess an expertise that makes analogizing transactions or circumstances to other transactions or circumstances unproblematic....