Unlocking Financial Accounting

Summary:
Unlocking Business is a new kind of textbook for business students in their first and second year of a degree. Unlocking Financial Accounting provides the following benefits:

- Strict coverage of key knowledge, concepts and ideas, keeping the title lean and focused and allowing students to find what they want without having to plough through thousands of pages.

- Carefully written for the learner - case studies, exercises and seminar ideas are woven into the text to help students learn as quickly as possible and to retain that knowledge in the most time-efficient way.

- Encourages good practice such as complete referencing and suggested wider reading, to help those who wish to obtain the best possible degree classification.

- Useful web resources include further questions, revision summaries and interactive multiple-choice quizzes at http://www.hodderplus.co.uk/unlockingbusiness

- A cost-effective way to prepare students for their studies.

• Learning material rather than reference material to hep students make the transition to undergraduate level
• Focus on key knowledge to ensure excellent value for money

Table of Contents:
1 Introduction: the role of accounting, IASB, ASB, Statement of Principles, accounting standards, accounting conventions,types of entity
2 Recording transactions
3 The balance sheet
4 The income statement
5 Cash flow statements
6 Adjustment to accounts I: accruals, prepayments and provisions
7 Adjustment to accounts II: non-current assets and depreciation
8 Assets & liabilities in more detail: current assets - valuation of stock, bad debts and bank reconciliations
9 Interpretation

About the Author(s):
Parminder Johal is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby

Beverly Vickerstaff is a Principal Lecturer at De Montfort University

Vira Krakhmal is a lecturer at the Open University

Lewis Gordon is Programme Manager at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University

Readership:
Business & Administrative Studies students