Accounts Demystified: How to understand financial accounting and analysis - Softcover

Rice, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273663348 ISBN 13: 9780273663348

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

"An excellent primer on accounting, this book explains in simple language how to understand balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and cash flow statements. It also has useful chapters covering important subjects like return on capital employed, gearing and book values as well as providing insight into the tricks of the accounting trade."

Jim Slater, investment guru and best selling author of The Zulu Principle

This is the new edition of the bestselling guide to understanding and using business accounts and accounting principles, written in a way that even the financially nervous novice can easily absorb. Accounting is generally viewed as a highly technical and complex subject. However, accounts are actually based on simple principles. It's not company accounts that are complex, it's all too often the way that they are explained. In this simple, easy read book, the author guides you through all the major accounting concepts. Discover how to master company accounts, understand balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and cash flow systems. Learn to analyse and monitor your company's financial performance. Accounts Demystified is the definitive, user-friendly guide to the fundamental principles of accounting that no manager will want to be without.

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From the Back Cover

Accounting is generally viewed as a highly technical and complex subject. However, accounts are actually based on simple principles. It's not company accounts that are complex, it's the way that all too often they are explained.

In this simple, easily absorbed, clearly explained book, the author guides you through all the major accounting concepts. Discover how to master company accounts. Understand balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and cash flow systems. Learn to analyse and monitor your company's financial performance.

Accounts Demystified is the definitive, user-friendly guide to the fundamental principles of accounting that no manager will want to be without.

Whether you are the manager of a small company, a trainee accountant, an entrepreneur, a business studies student, an investor on the stock market or a manager in a big corporation - this book is for you. In fact it is for anybody who want to be able to look at a balance sheet or profit and loss account and understand, digest and talk about the numbers, quickly and easily. In this 4th edition of the classic Accounts Demystified, Anthony Rice makes accounting astonishingly simple and pain-free.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273663348
• ISBN 13: 9780273663348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 320