Introduction to Accounting & Finance

By Geoff Black
Financial Times / Pearson Education Limited
August 2005
ISBN: 0273688707
408 Pages, Illustrated
$92.50 paper original

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Introduction to Accounting and Finance is ideal for business and accounting students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This book offers an accessible introduction to accounting, ensuring that the student's initial study of the subject is interesting and enjoyable. The book takes an applied and interactive approach with many case studies, self-study questions, self-check questions, exam papers and activities to help reinforce student learning by practice.

Many students regard accounting as a difficult area, but this text is, from start to finish, designed to help break down the jargon. Written in a very student friendly manner, it shows that accounting is a relevant and vital component of the business world.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The background to accounting
2. Recording financial transactions
3. Applying controls and concepts to financial information
4. The profit and loss account and balance sheet
5. A further look at assets and liabilities
6. Revision chapter (1)
7. Accounting and financing of multi-owner organizations
8. Incomplete records and club accounts
9. Cash flow: past and future
10. Making sense of financial statements
11. Revision chapter (2)
12. An introduction to management accounting
13. Absorption costing and marginal costing
14. Product costing
15. Break-even and cost-volume-profit analysis
16. Budgeting
17. Investment appraisal
17. Revision chapter (3)
Appendix 1: Answers to self-check questions
Appendix 2: Answers to self-study questions
Appendix 3: Answers to case study questions
Appendix 4: Answers to practice examination papers 1, 2 & 3
Index

Features
" Clear and concise writing style.
" Student friendly approach to accounting
" Comprehensive coverage of all introductory accounting topics
" Numerous activities to engage students throughout the text, all with answers
" Many real-life company examples used as illustration
" Extensive internet references
" Revision chapters and practice exam papers to consolidate learning
" A 'running' case study weaves through the book, developing student comprehension
" Full pedagogy, including: Case Studies, Chapter Objectives, Pause for Thought, Did You Know, Self Check Questions, Self Study Questions, Glossaries etc
" Dedicated companion Website with PowerPoint files and unique 'Questioner Generator' spreadsheet files available to lecturers as well as the glossaries, multiple choice questions etc. available to students.


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