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This text, is the leading accountancy text for the non-specialist student. The fourth edition maintains the clear and accessible style of previous editions and continues to provide an excellent introduction to financial accounting, cost and management accounting. A new selection of vignettes and discussion questions have been included in this new edition. Case studies have been appended to the relevant chapters and long and difficult chapters have been simplified and split into two easier chapters. Overall, the book has been modernised and streamlined to ensure it reflects contemporary developments.
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Accounting for Non-Accounting Students has firmly established itself over five editions as the market leading text in its field. This highly regarded text offers a clear and non-technical introduction to the basic principles of both financial and management accounting. Building on the success of previous editions, this sixth edition places even more emphasis on helping students understand the concepts of accounting and applying what they learn to the real world. This new edition includes a wide selection of news articles and real-world accounts allowing students to relate their learning to practice. It encourages a confident but critical approach to the range of accounting statements non-specialists are likely to encounter in their professional careers via a range of questions and thought-provoking activities.
Key features
- Accessible, well-written and comprehensive introduction to accounting.
- Each chapter includes a topical article from a newspaper plus related questions.
- Real-world case studies featuring a broad range of companies.
- Excellent pedagogy including: 'Check your learning', a large variety of student activities, numerous tutorial questions.
- New
- activities test student understanding as they progress through the chapter.
- New section on why this chapter is important to non-accountants.
- New
- feature details 'Questions non-accountants should ask'.
- New
- published accounts from a range of companies.
- New
- section on recent accounting scandals.
- Expanded coverage of contemporary issues, including environmental and social accounting.
- Expanded coverage of international accounting issues.
- New discussion questions link the news article with the chapter.
The sixth edition is accompanied by an excellent Website at www.booksites.net/dyson which includes challenging questions, additional case studies and a Lecturer¿s Guide.
John Dyson was formerly Director of Studies of the Heriot-Watt University Management Programme, Edinburgh.
John R. Dyson was formerly Director of Studies of the Heriot-Watt University Management Programme, Edinburgh.
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- PublisherFinancial Times Management
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0273625756
- ISBN 13 9780273625759
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages656
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