Accounting: An Introduction

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Preface
Guided tour of the book
Guided tour of MyAccountingLab
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction to accounting and finance
PART ONE: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
2. Measuring and reporting financial position
3. Measuring and reporting financial performance
4. Accounting for limited companies (1)
5. Accounting for limited companies (2)
6. Measuring and reporting cash flows
7. Analysing and interpreting financial statements

PART TWO: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
8. Relevant costs for decision making
9. Cost-volume-profit analysis
10. Full costing
11. Costing and performance evaluation in a competitive environment
12. Budgeting
13. Accounting for control

PART THREE: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
14. Making capital investment decisions
15. Financing a business
16. Managing a working capital

PART FOUR: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Appendix A Recording financial transactions
Appendix B Glossary of key terms
Appendix C Solutions to self-assessment questions
Appendix D Solutions to review questions
Appendix E Solutions to selected exercises
Appendix F Present value table

Index

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25 Oct 2012

By Wenting Wei

Print good for my study. Hope there will be a better edition