Introduction to Accounting & Finance, 2nd edition


By Geoff Black
June 2009
Pearson Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781408216293
275 Pages, Illustrated
$115.00 paper original


Introduction to Accounting and Finance has been written to offer as clear an explanation as possible of a subject that many students find demanding. Avoiding any unnecessary technical detail, it nonetheless covers all key areas in a student-friendly manner, reinforced by a wealth of practical illustrations and questions.

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 organisations
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
18. 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



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