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Accounting and Finance for Business provides a comprehensive coverage for those who are coming to the subject of accounting and finance for the first time, at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. With many case studies using real-life companies across a range of industries and countries, the text brings the subject to life by applying theory to practice wherever possible. The authors have adopted a very clear writing style ? avoiding jargon wherever possible ? and the many illustrations serve to make the text clear and accessible. Current topics such as Environmental Accounting have been included to ensure the text?s relevance to contemporary university accounting and finance courses.

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• Includes nearly 500 questions and three complete practice exam papers
• A running case study to link theory to practice
• Many fully worked exercises showing step-by-step how to solve problems
• QR codes used throughout to give you fast access to relevant web materials
• Focuses on 'real world' international case studies, examples include Tesco, Facebook, Puma, Groupon and Walmart
• Includes chapters on Decision Making, Environmental Accounting and Contemporary Issues in Finance
• Fully up-dated in line with current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

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• Contents


• Preface


• Guided tour


• Acknowledgements


• 1 The background to accounting


• 1.1 Introduction


• 1.2 What is accounting?


• 1.3 Who uses accounting?


• 1.4 Financial accounting and management accounting


• 1.5 Accounting assumptions and characteristics


• 1.5.1 Underlying Assumption 1: The accrual basis


• 1.5.2 Underlying Assumption 2: Going concern


• 1.5.3 Fundamental QC 1: Relevance


• 1.5.4 Fundamental QC 2: Faithful representation


• 1.5.5 Enhancing QC 1: Comparability


• 1.5.6 Enhancing QC 2: Verifiability


• 1.5.7 Enhancing QC 3: Timeliness


• 1.5.8 Enhancing QC 4: Understandability


• 1.6 Assets, liabilities and equity


• 1.6.1 Assets


• 1.6.2 Liabilities


• 1.6.3 Equity


• 1.7 The accounting equation


• 1.7.1 How does the value of equity change?


• 1.8 Alternative terminology


• 1.9 Summary


• 1.10 Chapter glossary


• 2 Processing financial data


• 2.1 Introduction


• 2.2 The dual aspect of transactions


• 2.3 How the system works


• 2.4 Checking the maths


• 2.5 Optimising the system


• 2.5.1 The cash book


• 2.5.2 The petty cash book


• 2.5.3 Analysed cash books and petty cash books


• 2.5.4 Day books


• 2.5.5 The journal


• 2.6 Computerised accounting systems


• 2.7 Summary


• 2.8 Chapter glossary


• 3 Adjusting and summarising data


• 3.1 Introduction


• 3.2 Financial periods


• 3.3 Accounting adjustments


• 3.3.1 Inventory adjustments


• 3.3.2 Accruals


• 3.3.3 Prepayments


• 3.3.4 Depreciation


• 3.4 Basics of the financial summaries