This book is quite comprehensive; it is reserved for a public with strong accounting knowledge and is not suitable for beginners. As a regular user of accounting standards, IFRS, at the professional level, I found it rewarding and synthetic, especially regarding the most abstruse enough IFRS. However many complaints: 1) the timing was not appropriate; an edition in 2014 would have been more appropriate given the issuance of new standards meantime, however note that IFRS 15, IFRS 9 and the revised version of IAS 37 have been anticipated, 2) there are numerous shells that make doubt the careful reading: syntax, spelling, unbalanced entries, false figures, etc., given the price, one would have to demand that this be corrected, 3) sometimes, the book will just not enough in the concrete practice of IFRS and does not respond to specific questions but important that a user might ask, 4) some aspects could have been extensive; Chapters on consolidation and are a bit light, 5) times the author lingers too much on the changes from the previous standards, although it may be useful to some extent as known to followers of IAS 8. .. The comparison with the United States and US GAAP is interesting but does not offer that much, especially given the increasing convergence between this and IFRS, since most of IFRS now published by the the IASB are in conjunction with the US FASB. It's a good manual to summarize, but especially for a view "high level", so perfect for university exams or even the qualifications but which is quite lower than the accounting manuals published by the Big Four if we really want to go in detail and one is an accounting practitioner him to work regularly, let alone daily on statements under IFRS.
