Accounting For Managers
by Abraham, Anne; Glynn, John; Murphy, Michael; Wilkinson, BillEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-10
Publisher(s): CENGAGE Lrng Business Press
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Summary
Accounting for Managers is an established introductory survey text. The approach taken emphasises the conceptual underpinnings of the subject, and views it from the point of view of managers' need for information. Not least the book emphasises the increasing importance of general managers understanding the role played by their accounting and financial management colleagues. The book gives an appreciation of the three traditional subject divisions of financial accounting, management accounting and finance. The book is broad in scope and encompasses accounting for public sector as well as private sector organisations.The book gives students on executive or general MBA courses an overview of the role of accounting and finance in business, and is also suitable for undergraduates of business and management studies.
Author Biography
Anne Abraham is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Table of Contents
| Accounting and the Organisation | |
| The nature and purpose of accounting | p. 3 |
| Corporate governance and ethics | p. 25 |
| Basic of accounting records | p. 41 |
| Cost and Management Accounting | |
| Cost concepts and measurements | p. 83 |
| Cost analysis for management decisions | p. 109 |
| Working capital management | p. 137 |
| Budgetary planning and control | p. 169 |
| Internal performance and evaluation | p. 215 |
| Financial Management | |
| Capital budgeting | p. 239 |
| Financing business operations | p. 267 |
| Capital structure and dividend decisions | p. 289 |
| Business reorganisation | p. 309 |
| Financial Reporting | |
| External financial reporting | p. 339 |
| Regulation, audit and taxation | p. 369 |
| Financial statement analysis | p. 389 |
| Issues in Accounting | |
| Social responsibility and the environmental accounting | p. 429 |
| Supply chain management | p. 441 |
| Strategic business accounting | p. 453 |
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