Financial Accounting For Non-Specialists

Description: "Financial Accounting for Non-Specialists" is today's book for tomorrow's manager. It offers a fresh approach to financial accounting, enabling students to understand how financial accounting applies to financial management. This book presents financial accounting in an intelligent manner, that allows non-accounting students to grasp the basic principles before tackling more advanced topics.


Contents: 1. The Balance Sheet, and what it tells us 2. The Profit and Loss Account 3. The Context of Financial Accounting 4. Conventional Interpretation of Financial Statements 5. Profits: definitions, role and measurement 6. How the stock market assesses company performance 7. Cash Flow and Profit 8. Creative Accounting 9. Advanced Interpretation of Financial Statements 10. Assets and Liabilities 11. Revenues and Expenses 12. Sources of Finance 13. Management of Working Capital 14. Investment Appraisal 15. Conclusion: Financial Accounting and Assessing Company Performance Appendix: Basic Accounting Procedures and Statements Answers to Self-testing Questions Index


Author Biography: Robert Perks is Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster.