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Financial Accounting & Reporting is the most up-to-date text on the market. Now fully updated in its 13th edition, it includes extensive coverage of International Accounting Standards (IASs) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs).
This market-leading text offers students a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment of the subject. Supported by illustrations and exercises, the book provides a strong balance of theoretical and conceptual coverage. Students using this book will gain the knowledge and skills to help them apply current standards, and critically appraise the underlying concepts and financial reporting methods.
The text adopts a questioning attitude to the subject, asking why accounting practices exist and how they work, without lingering on the technicalities. For those who favour the 'why' over 'how to' approach, Financial Accounting is the ideal introductory core text for first-year financial accounting students.
The text is deliberately and positively accessible for first-time students, with frequent exercises in all chapters, and answers to these supplied straight after the questions. These do not so much test understanding of the subject as develop understanding through self-testing and repetition.
The book provides a unique practical introduction to the international standards, outlining how these standards are used on a daily basis by companies in the preparation of their financial statements.
The author examines the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure requirements of each IFRS and IAS and every attempt has been made to explain the standards as clearly and concisely as possible.
Management Accounting for Decision Makers is praised for its clear, accessible and uncluttered style. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the main principles of management accounting, with a strong practical emphasis and avoiding excessive technical detail.
The world's bestselling textbooks on bookkeeping and accounting. They provide students with a clear and straight forward introduction to the core techniques and skills required to fully understand the foundations of financial accounting.
This comprehensive book addresses practical financial reporting problems while reflecting recent business developments and changes in accounting standards.It focuses on accounting concepts rather than bookkeeping techniques in learning the consolidation materials.
This book is fully in-line with the most recent developments in the public sector environment. It draws together accounting theory and practice for each of the main areas of accounting, providing contemporary examples from a range of public sector experience which are woven into the text to illustrate the issues involved.
The book is internationalised as much as possible to give it as wide an appeal as possible, and each chapter is fully supported by examples and progress assignments.
Introduction to Accounting and Finance has been written to offer as clear an explanation as possible of a subject that many students find demanding. Avoiding any unnecessary technical detail, it nonetheless covers all key areas in a student-friendly manner, reinforced by a wealth of practical illustrations and questions.
Managerial Accounting, 2e is concise and straightforward without sacrificing the explanations that clarify concepts! The key to capturing students' attention isn't just about being concise' which is why this text presents concepts in a way that gets students to the point without omitting vital information for the sake of brevity.
Managerial Accounting presents core concepts first, followed by an immediate explanation of the business implications the concept will have. MyAccountingLab, the text's online homework system, then provides students with a learning environment that tests and strengthens their skills and understanding through unlimited practice. Together, Managerial Accounting and MyAccountingLab will help students have more of those 'I Get It!' moments.
Managerial Accounting for Business Decisions helps students who are new to the subject to understand how the techniques of management accounting are used to solve business problems.
Focusing squarely on the needs of today?s business, management and non-specialist accounting students, the aim of this book is to set management accounting into a contemporary real world context, helping students to apply the theories they learn to management situations and to use clear thinking to obtain the best financial outcome.
Provides students and managers with an understanding of and appreciation of the strengths and limitations of an organisation's accounting system. A key goal of the book is to allow them to be intelligent and critical users of the system.
An analytical framework for organisational change is used throughout the book to underscore how organisations must adapt to create customer and organisational value.
Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach presents an integrated concepts approach that shows students the auditing process from start to finish. This text prepares students for real-world audit decision making by using illustrative examples of key audit decisions, with an emphasis on audit planning, risk assessment processes and collecting and evaluating evidence in response to risks.
Financial Accounting & Reporting is the most up-to-date text on the market. Now fully updated in its 13th edition, it includes extensive coverage of International Accounting Standards (IASs) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs).
The text adopts a questioning attitude to the subject, asking why accounting practices exist and how they work, without lingering on the technicalities. For those who favour the 'why' over 'how to' approach, Financial Accounting is the ideal introductory core text for first-year financial accounting students.
This comprehensive book addresses practical financial reporting problems while reflecting recent business developments and changes in accounting standards.It focuses on accounting concepts rather than bookkeeping techniques in learning the consolidation materials. 
Managerial Accounting presents core concepts first, followed by an immediate explanation of the business implications the concept will have. MyAccountingLab, the text's online homework system, then provides students with a learning environment that tests and strengthens their skills and understanding through unlimited practice. Together, Managerial Accounting and MyAccountingLab will help students have more of those 'I Get It!' moments.
