Pension Schemes – An Industry Accounting and Auditing Guide, fourth edition

Pension Schemes — An Industry Accounting and Auditing Guide fourth edition

by Peter Rowley Mark Mainwaring and the Pensions Team at Grant Thornton Published by CCH price £75 c600 pages

This is an impressive book that effectively splits into two parts. The first section of 31 chapters takes the reader through a comprehensive review of virtually everything to do with pension arrangements past and present with special emphasis on the relevance of the contents to the accounting and auditing professions.

The second part is a very useful set of the reference materials involved in the book's preparation. This is particularly helpful as endless searching of websites and other written material to trace sources is more or less unnecessary.

Peter Mark and the team have made the commentary as punchy as possible in the context of pensions and the contents pages...