Accounting in A Business Context - Softcover

Robin Jarvis; Aidan Berry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844802515 ISBN 13: 9781844802517

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2005

Synopsis

The fourth edition of Accounting in a Business Context provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to accounting and finance for students on business and business-related courses. Fully revised and up-dated, it offers the ideal balance of coverage of financial accounting, management accounting and finance topics. Presented in a readable and accessible way using numerous real world examples, this highly popular text is the most complete text on the market for students from non-accounting disciplines. By focusing on how managers use information in the business world, rather than how accountants prepare it, the authors successfully covey the role of accounting in its wider managerial setting without burdening the student with unnecessary technical detail or accounting jargon. The book is pedagogically well developed and includes learning objectives, exercises, examples, case studies, diagrams, summaries, review questions, and a companion website to supplement the text. This ever-popular text enjoys a wide readership amongst students taking an introductory course in accounting and finance at both undergraduate and taught postgraduate level.

About this title

From the Back Cover

An essential purchase for those who want to excel in their
introductory accounting and finance course. This highly popular text is one
of the most complete resources available for both undergraduate and MBA
students, successfully conveying the role of accounting in a wider
managerial setting without the accounting jargon.

Aidan Berry and Robin Jarvis have used their experience to keep the
traditional key elements that have made this such a successful text and
have added these new features for the 4th edition:
- More questions and examples with answers throughout the text will help
you to practise and gain confidence for succeeding in your course
- Coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) where
relevant and adoption of new IFRS terminology- an essential element for
today's courses
- Engaging case studies throughout the text put the theory into real-world
practice, using actual accounts from organisations such as Manchester
United, Body Shop and Thorntons
- A new chapter on management of working capital
- Expanded coverage of activity based costing and new techniques such as
target costing
- Expanded coverage of finance to include sources of finance, short-term
financing and financial risk management

The companion website that accompanies the book takes you beyond the text
and allows you to carry out extra revision to help you flourish in your
course. Taking on board the opinions of many of your lecturers it has been
newly revised for this edition and contains the following resources:
- Excel worksheet examples
- Multiple choice test bank
- Web links

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844802515
• ISBN 13: 9781844802517
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 512