Business Accounting and Finance,
5th Edition

Catherine Gowthorpe

ISBN-13: 9781473773738
Copyright 2021 | Published
528 pages | List Price: USD $68.50

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Section I. Financial accounting and reporting
1. The role of accounting in business
2. The statement of financial position
3. The statement of profit or loss
4. Applying accounting conventions
5. Depreciation and amortization
6. The statement of cash flows
7. Financial reporting by limited companies
8. Understanding financial reports: trend analysis
9. Understanding financial reports: using accounting ratios

Section II. Management accounting
10. Management and cost accounting information
11. Costing: overview and basic techniques
12. Costing: accounting for overheads
13. Pricing
14. Marginal costing and decision making
15. Capital investment decisions
16. Budgets
17. Accounting for control
18. Performance measurement

Section III. Financial management
19. The management of working capital
20. Financing the business

Answers to self-test questions
Answers to exercises
Glossary
Index

  • Catherine Gowthorpe

    Catherine Gowthorpe BA FCA is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant with over thirty years' experience as a lecturer and researcher in higher education in the UK and Spain. For many years, she was an examiner for two of the UK’s leading professional accounting bodies. She has published many articles on accounting and related areas such as auditing and professional ethics.

  • Updated real-life examples give students valuable insight into the reality of the workplace.

  • New coverage on ethics introduces students to this key topic and helps them grasp how a business can enrich a community.

  • New sections on corporate governance unravel the rules around business management for students to enhance their future employability.

  • Downloadable Excel files accompany selected exercises and encourage students to explore and use spreadsheets in preparing their answers.

  • Relevant examples throughout illustrate how the theory works in practice.

  • Real-life scenarios from internationally known companies bring the technical information to life and engage students.

  • Self-test questions are woven into the text so that students can check their understanding as they progress through each chapter.

  • A broad range of exercises at the end of each chapter enables students to fully test their knowledge and prepare for their exams.

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