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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816330203321

Autore

Owen Aneirin Sion

Titolo

Accounting for business studies / / Aneirin Sion Owen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Mass., : Elsevier Butterwort-Heinemann, 2003

ISBN

1-136-43140-3

1-281-00617-3

9786611006174

0-08-048995-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Disciplina

657

Soggetti

Accounting

Business logistics

Business mathematics

Business - Mathematical models

Marketing

Product life cycle

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Accounting for Business Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Introducing accounting; 2. The language of accounting; 3. The accounting framework; 4. Year end adjustments; 5. Trading and profit and loss account and balance sheet; 6. Cash flow forecasting; 7. Bad debt, discounts and adjustments; 8. Budgeting; 9. Budget interpretation; 10. Accounting ratios; 11. Limited liability and the stock market; 12. Financial management; 13. Breakeven and margin of safety; 14. Costing; 15. Activity-based costing; 16. International business; 17. e-Business; 18. Investment appraisal

19. Accounting in the business environmentIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Businesses are complex, and, as a result, teachers face a difficult task developing students' understanding of how they work, especially in the global context. Accounting for Business Studies helps teachers focus on modern commercial issues and integrates accounting into business and management studies. This book includes: * A business perspective



rather than an accounting perspective* e-business, including case studies* Globalisation, including case studies* Business skills, like interpretation, an