Accounting
Understanding and Practice
3rd Edition
Published on 16. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
584 pages
978-0-07-712478-6 (ISBN)
Description
Accounting: Understanding and Practice by Robert Perks and Danny Leiwy provides a gentle introduction to the complexities of accounting. An evolution of the successful textbook Financial Accounting: Understanding and Practice, this new edition has been enhanced to provide more emphasis on Management Accounting topics, with new material that has been structured in line with current teaching in introductory accounting modules. Fully revised throughout, the whole text has been thoroughly updated in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards. Ample practice illustrations and examples help present the subject in relation to a business world to which readers can easily relate.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
ill
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1022 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-712478-6 (9780077124786)
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Persons
Robert Perks formerly taught accounting and finance at the International Business School in the Isle of Man. Robert also held chairs at the following universities: Queen's Belfast, Middlesex, Aberdeen, Birkbeck, and Westminster. Danny Leiwy is Course Director of Westminster Business School's Diploma in Financial Management and teaches Financial Accounting at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as Taxation at undergraduate level. He also teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science and on University of London's External degree programme. Danny is currently in practise as a chartered accountant.
Content
1- The Balance Sheet and What It tells us2- The Income Statement3- The Development of Financial Reporting4- Ratios and Interpretations: A Straightforward Introduction5- How the Stock Market Assesses Company Performance6- Cash Flow Statements: understanding and preparation7- Advanced Interpretation of Company and Group Accounts8- Current Issues in Financial Reporting9- Financing a Business10- Management of Working Capital11- Introduction to Management Accounting12- Investment Appraisal13- Budgetary Planning and Control14- Absorption Costing15- Marginal Costing and Decision Making16- Standard Costing and Variance Analysis17- Book-keeping to Trial Balance18- Trial Balance to Final Accounts19- Incomplete RecordsAppendix 1: Developments in Management Accounting Answers to Self Test QuestionsAnswers to Activities