product title: Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists, 12th edition

Familiarise your students with the essential accounting and finance principles for business decision-making.

Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists< 12^th Edition is a complete guide in financial accounting, management accounting, and financial management that will help your students develop their skills from theory to practice.

This useful guide will support your students' learning in principal financial statements, accounting, and finance techniques and will help them develop decision-making skills with real-world examples.

With a range of activities and exercises, this must-have edition will grow your students' understanding of the field for their future career in business.

Format types

MyLab with eText = Access to the blended learning platform, merging digital content with complementary homework, tutorials, and assessments. Includes the accompanying eText.

eTextbook = A standalone digital replacement of a print textbook. You have 3 access durations to choose from to best suit your course. (180 day/12 month/5 years). Does not include access to the MyLab platform.

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MyLab is an innovative online learning platform to support you in your educational journey. It offers a range of interactive and personalized resources tailored to various subjects, helping you to better understand and retain course material. 

Key benefits of MyLab include immediate feedback on assignments and quizzes, allowing you to learn from your mistakes in real-time. Additionally, the platform provides a wealth of practice exercises, tutorials, and multimedia resources that cater to different learning styles.

New to This Edition

• Up-to-date content coverage, including introductory material on ethics and accounting, as well as revisions, to accommodate changes to rules on corporate governance.
• Helps your students make sense of real accounting issues, in a world affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Articles and examples study the impact of the pandemic on prominent businesses such as BP, EasyJet, Rolls Royce, and Airbus and their response to pressure on their industries.
• Arresting new data and scenarios as applied in updated, real-world examples, help students understand the business environment from theory to practice. The 'Real World' boxes further connect accounting concepts with real decision-making.
• Enables group work and individual learning and revision with helpful, updated pedagogical features.
• More diagrams and charts have been added, along with updated examples and activities sections to improve conceptual discussions and stimulate student thinking.
• Revised, end-of-chapter exercises and integrated activities throughout the book provide excellent opportunities to test students' knowledge in core ideas, supporting the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The book offers a complete set of solutions, partly within the text and some in the Instructor's Manual.

Table of contents

• Introduction to accounting and finance
• PART ONE: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
• Measuring and reporting financial position 
• Measuring and reporting financial performance
• Accounting for limited companies
• Measuring and reporting cash flows
• Analysing and interpreting financial statements
• PART TWO: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
• The relevance and behaviour of costs 
• Full costing
• Budgeting
• PART THREE: FINANCE
• Making capital investment decisions
• Financing a business
• Managing working capital
• Appendix A: Glossary of key terms
• Appendix B: Solutions to self-assessment questions
• Appendix C: Solutions to critical review questions
• Appendix D: Solutions to selected exercises
• Appendix E: Present value table
• Index