Product Description
Covering all the key areas of financial and management accounting, this text focuses on how managers will actually use information, rather than how accountants prepare it. The text is fully updated and revised to take account of the recent ASB developments, and includes new material on ratio analysis and activity based costing.
From the Back Cover
An essential purchase for those who want to excel in their
introductory accounting and finance course. This highly popular text is one
of the most complete resources available for both undergraduate and MBA
students, successfully conveying the role of accounting in a wider
managerial setting without the accounting jargon.
Aidan Berry and Robin Jarvis have used their experience to keep the
traditional key elements that have made this such a successful text and
have added these new features for the 4th edition:
- More questions and examples with answers throughout the text will help
you to practise and gain confidence for succeeding in your course
- Coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) where
relevant and adoption of new IFRS terminology- an essential element for
today's courses
- Engaging case studies throughout the text put the theory into real-world
practice, using actual accounts from organisations such as Manchester
United, Body Shop and Thorntons
- A new chapter on management of working capital
- Expanded coverage of activity based costing and new techniques such as
target costing
- Expanded coverage of finance to include sources of finance, short-term
financing and financial risk management
The companion website that accompanies the book takes you beyond the text
and allows you to carry out extra revision to help you flourish in your
course. Taking on board the opinions of many of your lecturers it has been
newly revised for this edition and contains the following resources:
- Excel worksheet examples
- Multiple choice test bank
- Web links
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.