Accounting and Finance for Managers

Designed for Business and Management students at all levels who need to understand how to apply the key concepts of accounting and finance in order to make better informed business decisions.

The ideal textbook for business and management students needing to develop and understand accounting and finance skills. Taking a unique and practical approach that focuses on the financial aspects of business decisions, Accounting and Finance for Managers covers the core topics of accounting and finance. Now in its fourth edition, it includes new advice on budgetary control, outlining new techniques and emerging methods to help students understand how to make better business decisions. Featuring 'traditional' accounting practices in detail, Accounting and Finance for Managers covers topics with a strategic and accessible focus. With new content covering essential tools such as contribution and breakeven analysis and the growing presence of automation and machine learning, this is an essential textbook for business and management students on accounting and finance modules. Supporting online resources include additional exercise questions, curated further reading and lecture slides for each chapter.

Online resources: additional chapters containing guidance and teaching tips; test questions and lecture slides for each chapter

Auteur
Simon Parry is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Newcastle University. Over the last 22 years he has taught professional accounting courses for ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, and CIPD, together with academic courses for Business, Accounting and MBA students. He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, FCA) with 34 years' professional experience in industry, practice and the public sector.

Contenu

• • Chapter - 01: Introduction to accounting;
  • Chapter - 02: Accounting concepts and systems;
  • Chapter - 03: Financial analysis: Part I;
  • Chapter - 04: Financial analysis: Part II;
  • Chapter - 05: Business planning;
  • Chapter - 06: Performance management;
  • Chapter - 07: Cash and working capital management;
  • Chapter - 08: Pricing decisions;
  • Chapter - 09: Investment decisions;
  • Chapter - 10: Financing decisions;
  • Chapter - 11: Operational decisions
  • Chapter - Appendix A: An introduction to double-entry bookkeeping;
  • Chapter - Appendix B: International Accounting/Financial Reporting Standards;
  • Chapter - Appendix C: Discount tables;
  • Chapter - Appendix D: Annuity factors;