| Title : | Introduction to accounting for non-specialists | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Len Hand, Author ; Carolyn Isaaks, Author ; Peter Sanderson, Author | | Publisher: | London : Thomson Learning | | Publication Date: | 2005 | | Pagination: | xv, 301 p. | | Layout: | ill (b & w) | | Size: | 25 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-84480-022-3 | | General note: | Providing a first-level look at accounting and basic finance for non-specialist students, this text explains technical aspects and underlying concepts. It enables students to be able to critically analyse and discuss financial reporting and understand the factors that define it. | | Class number: | 657 | | Abstract: | Introductory Accounting for Non-Specialists is aimed at a single-semester module in accounting and finance. The text provides a first-level look at financial and managerial accounting and basic finance for non-specialist students. The approach is to achieve a balance between the technical aspects and underlying concepts. The book is aimed at users of accounting information. Students (as future users of accounting information) need to understand the basic ideas and assumptions that lie behind the numbers. The book is pedagogically well developed and includes learning objectives, tasks, examples, case studies, diagrams, summaries, review questions and exam questions. Answers are provided to the majority of the review and exam questions at the back of the book. | | Contents note: | List of exhibits; Preface; Acknowledgements; Walk through tour; Companion website; Chapter 1 Introducing the world of accounting; Chapter 2 Accounting in context: focus on the product; Chapter 3 Using accounting for managers' decisions; Chapter 4 A framework for accounting reports; Chapter 5 A deeper understanding of the balance sheet and profit and loss account; Chapter 6 The financial reporting framework: the rules of the game; Chapter 7 Cash-flow statements and a broader persepctive of published reports; Chapter 8 The interpretation of accounting statements; Chapter 9 Accounting for the future: planning and control through budgets; Chapter 10 Accounting for long-term decisions; Chapter 11 Corporate governance: the UK experience; Answer Notes; Glossary; Appendix: Present Value Table; Index. |
Introduction to accounting for non-specialists [printed text] / Len Hand, Author ; Carolyn Isaaks, Author ; Peter Sanderson, Author . - London : Thomson Learning, 2005 . - xv, 301 p. : ill (b & w) ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-1-84480-022-3 Providing a first-level look at accounting and basic finance for non-specialist students, this text explains technical aspects and underlying concepts. It enables students to be able to critically analyse and discuss financial reporting and understand the factors that define it. | Class number: | 657 | | Abstract: | Introductory Accounting for Non-Specialists is aimed at a single-semester module in accounting and finance. The text provides a first-level look at financial and managerial accounting and basic finance for non-specialist students. The approach is to achieve a balance between the technical aspects and underlying concepts. The book is aimed at users of accounting information. Students (as future users of accounting information) need to understand the basic ideas and assumptions that lie behind the numbers. The book is pedagogically well developed and includes learning objectives, tasks, examples, case studies, diagrams, summaries, review questions and exam questions. Answers are provided to the majority of the review and exam questions at the back of the book. | | Contents note: | List of exhibits; Preface; Acknowledgements; Walk through tour; Companion website; Chapter 1 Introducing the world of accounting; Chapter 2 Accounting in context: focus on the product; Chapter 3 Using accounting for managers' decisions; Chapter 4 A framework for accounting reports; Chapter 5 A deeper understanding of the balance sheet and profit and loss account; Chapter 6 The financial reporting framework: the rules of the game; Chapter 7 Cash-flow statements and a broader persepctive of published reports; Chapter 8 The interpretation of accounting statements; Chapter 9 Accounting for the future: planning and control through budgets; Chapter 10 Accounting for long-term decisions; Chapter 11 Corporate governance: the UK experience; Answer Notes; Glossary; Appendix: Present Value Table; Index. |
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