Financial Accounting For Dummies - UK

AvSteven Collings,Maire Loughran

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Your plain–English guide to financial accounting for students and trainees. Financial Accounting For Dummies provides students who are studying finance, accounting and business with the basic concepts, terminology, and methods to interpret, analyse, prepare and evaluate financial statements. Covers concepts accountants and other business professionals use to prepare reports; mergers and acquisitions purchase and pooling; free cash flow; and financial statement analysis.Whether you′re a student on your way to earning a degree, working towards your ACCA qualification, or a trainee just starting out in your accounts career, Financial Accounting For Dummies gives you a wealth of information to grasp the subject. This UK version is adapted to take in UK accounting practice and international reporting standardsProvides a firm grounding in interpreting, analysing, preparing and evaluating corporate financial statementsIncludes easy–to–understand explanations and real-life examples to consolidate learning

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-04-12
Mått:186 x 232 x 21 mm
Vikt:676 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781118554371

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Steve Collings is the audit and technical director for Leavitt Walmsley Associates Ltd, a Chartered Certified Accountants based in Sale, south Manchester. He specialises in financial reporting and auditing, and has an interest in small business taxation issues. Steve has written extensively for AccountingWEB.co.uk and is author of The Interpretation and Application of International Standards on Auditing and IFRS For Dummies, also published by Wiley.Maire Loughran, CPA, is a member of the American Association of Certified Public Accountants. An adjunct professor of auditing, accounting and taxation courses, she is also the author of Auditing For Dummies.

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Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Financial Accounting 7Chapter 1: Seeing the Big Picture of Financial Accounting and International Accounting 9Chapter 2: Making a Career in Financial Accounting 25Chapter 3: Introducing the Primary Financial Statements 37Chapter 4: Acronym Alert! Setting the Standards for Financial Accounting 53Part II: Looking at Some Accounting Basics 65Chapter 5: Doing the Books: The Process behind Financial Accounting 67Chapter 6: Taking a Butcher’s at Accounting Methods Under UK GAAP and IFRS 87Part III: Bonding with the Balance Sheet 97Chapter 7: Looking at Assets 99Chapter 8: Grappling with Liabilities 115Chapter 9: Examining the Equity Section 131Part IV: Investigating Income and Cash Flow 143Chapter 10: Understanding Profit or Loss 145Chapter 11: Figuring Out the Statement of Cash Flows under UK GAAP and IFRS 165Chapter 12: Discovering and Understanding Depreciation 181Chapter 13: Dealing with and Accounting for Inventory 195Part V: Analysing the Financial Statements 207Chapter 14: Using Ratios and Other Tools 209Chapter 15: Delving into the Disclosures 225Chapter 16: Reporting to Shareholders 241Part VI: Tackling More Advanced Financial Accounting Topics 255Chapter 17: Accounting for Business Combinations 257Chapter 18: Accounting for Income Taxes 275Chapter 19: Accounting for Leases 287Chapter 20: Reporting Changes in Policies and Estimates and Correcting Errors 299Part VII: The Part of Tens 311Chapter 21: Ten Financial Accounting Shenanigans 313Chapter 22: Ten Industries with Special Accounting Standards 321Index 329