Accounting and Finance: An Introduction has all the information you need to start your business career. This best-selling text teaches you the basics of understanding and using financial information with practical techniques and real-world examples. The same great book as Accounting: An Introduction, but now with a new title to truly reflect its broad coverage. This comprehensive guide covers financial accounting, management accounting and financial management in a single text, and provides the background and tools to make informed, successful business decisions.
Contents:
Table of Contents
Preface
How to use this book
Guided tour of the book
Guided tour of MyAccounting lab
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction to accounting
Part One Financial Accounting
Chapter 2 Measuring and reporting financial position
Chapter 3 Measuring and reporting financial performance
Chapter 4 Accounting for limited companies (1)
Chapter 5 Accounting for limited companies (2)
Chapter 6 Measuring and reporting cash flows
Chapter 7 Analysing and interpreting financial statements
Part Two Management Accounting
Chapter 8 Relevant costs for decision making
Chapter 9 Cost–volume–profit analysis
Chapter 10 Full costing
Chapter 11 Costing and performance evaluation in a competitive environment
Chapter 12 Budgeting
Chapter 13 Accounting for control
Part Three Financial Management
Chapter 14 Making capital investment decisions
Chapter 15 Financing a business
Chapter 16 Managing working capital
Part Four Supplementary Information
Appendix A Recording financial transactions
Appendix B Glossary of key terms
Appendix C Solutions to self-assessment questions
Appendix D Solutions to review questions
Appendix E Solutions to selected exercises
Appendix F Present value table
Index
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