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Introduction to financial accounting / Christopher Waterston and Anne Britton.

By: Waterston, Christopher, 1955-.
Contributor(s): Britton, Anne.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Longman modular texts in business and economics.Publisher: London : Longman, 1996Description: xi,231p ; 25cm + pbk.ISBN: 0582262577 (m); 9780582262577.Subject(s): Accounting | Financial accounting | Financial accountingDDC classification: 657.48 BRI Summary: This text contains approximately 80per cent text, 15per cent test and assessment material and 5per cent further reading sources. The text's interactive approach is designed to encourage students' interest whilst at the same time providing a flexible resource for lecturers.
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 657.48 BRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 38888000064729
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text contains approximately 80% text, 15% test and assessment material and 5% further reading sources. The text's interactive approach is designed to encourage students' interest whilst at the same time providing a flexible resource for lecturers. It also has an explicit consideration of the European context and alternative approaches to financial reporting.

Includes bibliographies and index.

This text contains approximately 80per cent text, 15per cent test and assessment material and 5per cent further reading sources. The text's interactive approach is designed to encourage students' interest whilst at the same time providing a flexible resource for lecturers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 What is accounting? Nature, purposes and users
  • 2 Balance sheet
  • 3 P&L
  • 4 Concepts and conventions, including characteristics
  • 5 Double entry
  • 6 Adjustments, including entries in ledger accounts
  • 7 Preparation of P&L and balance sheet from TB and adjustments
  • 8 Limited companies
  • 9 Regulatory framework in UK, compared with European examples
  • 10 Interpretation, including ratio analysis, and consideration of additional information required
  • 11 Cash flow statement
  • 12 Accounting under price level changes
  • 13 Control
  • 14 IT
  • 15 Conclusion, based around interpretation of the same company presented in accordnace with UK GAAP and a (probably French) GAAP