
Mastering Accounting Skills
Margaret Nicholson(Author)
Red Globe Press
3rd Edition
Published on 14. July 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-1-4039-9270-3 (ISBN)
Description
Mastering Accounting Skills is a clear explanatory text designed for beginners with no prior knowledge or experience of the discipline. Step-by-step illustrations enable students to gain a real understanding of the principles and procedures of Book-keeping and Accounting.
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Series
Edition
3rd ed. 2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
687 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-9270-3 (9781403992703)
DOI
10.1057/9780230208117
Schweitzer Classification
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Margaret Nicholson
Mastering Accounting Skills
Book
06/2000
2nd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€21.07
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Person
MARGARET NICHOLSON is OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA) Chief Examiner, an OCR and NEC Accounting Consultant and a NVQ External Verifier. She is a well-established author with many years' teaching and lecturing experience.
Content
Introduction.- Assets, Liabilities and Capital.- Double Entry Accounts.- Purchases and Purchase Returns.- Sales and Sales Returns.- Double Entry System for Expenses.- Balancing Accounts.- Trial Balance.- Analysed Petty Cash Book and the Imprest System.- Banking Payments and Receipts.- Two-column Cash Book.- Three-column Cash Book and Cash Discounts.- Bank Reconciliation Statements.- Analysed Purchases and Purchase Returns Day Books.- Analysed Sales and Sales Returns Day Books.- Trading, Profit and Loss Accounts and Balance Sheets.- Further Trading, Profit and Loss Accounts and Balance Sheets.- Control Accounts.- Adjustments for Final Accounts: Prepayments and Accruals.- Adjustments for Trading, Profit and Loss Accounts and Balance Sheets.- The Journal.- Errors not Effecting Trial Balance Agreement.- Suspense Accounts.- Capital and Revenue Expenditure and Receipts.- Receipts and Payment Accounts, Income and Expenditure Accounts and Balance Sheets.- Accounting Ratios.- Index.