An Introduction To Business Accounting for Manager

• Main Author: HARTLEY, W. C. F. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Pergamon Press 1987
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Subjects: Accounting
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• Physical Description: xvi, 221 pages illustrations 21 cm
• ISBN: 0080347894; 9780080347899

Now in its fourth edition, this book dispels much of the mystique surrounding accounting and finance for the non-financial manager. It will enable the reader to communicate more effectively with financial advisers and help to enhance the quality of the financial decisions that managers have to make. It includes such topics as accounting for inflation, the significance of cash management and control and the development of accounting standards, many of which have not been treated in any single. recent, competitive work. This fully revised and updated version incorporates changes in current legislation and in attitudes. towards financial analysis, the interpretation of annual accounts and the use of financial ratios, as well as a new chapter on capital investment appraisal. Contents * The Use and Abuse of Accounting * Development and Principles of Book-keeping * Ascertainment of Profit or Loss and Financial Position * Accounting Concepts and Accounting Standards The * Limited Company * Annual Accounts of a Limited Company * Value Added * Profit vs. Cash Flow * Impact of Inflation on Accounting Information * Published Financial Information * Interpretation of Annual Accounts * Structured Use of Financial Ratios * Principles of Cost Accounting * Principles of Marginal Costing * Accounting as an Aid to Management Planning and Control * Capital Investment Appraisal * Data Processing * Principles of Corporate Taxation