Now here’s a holiday gift for the accountant on your list. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has published its Accounting Standards Codification into a four-volume bound edition.

So for $195, the entire library of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles can be adorning the desktop of your favorite accountant, just in time to verify questions that are sure to arise during the year-end reporting cycle.

Well, there’s no guarantee on the timing, actually. FASB says the bound edition is expected to be available this week, and they’re taking credit card numbers to reserve copies.

FASB developed the Accounting Standards Codification over the course of several years to reorganize the entire library of historical pronouncements that made up GAAP into topical categories. The Codification is now the only authoritative source for GAAP.

The content of the Codification and some cross referencing functionality is available for free through the FASB Website, but the more advanced research features of the online tool are available only through subscription.

The bound volumes reflect GAAP as it existed through Oct. 31, 2009. It contains FASB Standards No. 166, Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets, and No. 167, Amendments to FASB Interpretation No. 46(R), although they were not codified as of Oct. 31. It does not contain FASB Standard No. 164, Not-for-Profit Entities: Mergers and Acquisitions, which has been approved and adopted by FASB but has not yet been codified.

The first volume contains the Notice to Constituents, which explains the Codification, and topics covering general principles of GAAP, presentation, assets, liabilities, and equity. The second volume covers revenue and expenses as well as the early topics on broad transactions. The third volume continues broad transactions and covers about half of the industry-specific topics. The final volume contains the rest of the industry topics and the master glossary.