Business Accounting and Finance, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, straightforward introduction to key management and financial accounting topics.
In this new edition, a wealth of examples and real-life cases from well-known organizations, such as Lloyds, Tesco, Experian and Burberry, bring theory to life and prepare students for a successful career in the workplace.
Section I. Financial accounting and reporting
1. The role of accounting in business
2. The statement of financial position
3. The statement of profit or loss
4. Applying accounting conventions
5. Depreciation and amortization
6. The statement of cash flows
7. Financial reporting by limited companies
8. Understanding financial reports: trend analysis
9. Understanding financial reports: using accounting ratios
Section II. Management accounting
10. Management and cost accounting information
11. Costing: overview and basic techniques
12. Costing: accounting for overheads
13. Pricing
14. Marginal costing and decision making
15. Capital investment decisions
16. Budgets
17. Accounting for control
18. Performance measurement
Section III. Financial management
19. The management of working capital
20. Financing the business
Answers to self-test questions
Answers to exercises
Glossary
Index
