Collings / Loughran Financial Accounting For Dummies - UK, UK Edition

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-55435-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Your plain-English guide to financial accounting forstudents and trainees.
Financial Accounting For Dummies provides students whoare studying finance, accounting and business with the basicconcepts, terminology, and methods to interpret, analyse, prepareand evaluate financial statements. Covers concepts accountants andother business professionals use to prepare reports; mergers andacquisitions purchase and pooling; free cash flow; and financialstatement analysis.
Whether you're a student on your way to earning a degree,working towards your ACCA qualification, or a trainee just startingout in your accounts career, Financial Accounting ForDummies gives you a wealth of information to grasp thesubject.
* This UK version is adapted to take in UK accounting practiceand international reporting standards
* Provides a firm grounding in interpreting, analysing, preparingand evaluating corporate financial statements
* Includes easy-to-understand explanations andreal-life examples to consolidate learning

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collings, Steven

Loughran, Maire

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Financial Accounting 7
Chapter 1: Seeing the Big Picture of Financial Accounting andInternational Accounting 9
Chapter 2: Making a Career in Financial Accounting 25
Chapter 3: Introducing the Primary Financial Statements 37
Chapter 4: Acronym Alert! Setting the Standards for FinancialAccounting 53
Part II: Looking at Some Accounting Basics 65
Chapter 5: Doing the Books: The Process behind FinancialAccounting 67
Chapter 6: Taking a Butcher's at Accounting Methods UnderUK GAAP and IFRS 87
Part III: Bonding with the Balance Sheet 97
Chapter 7: Looking at Assets 99
Chapter 8: Grappling with Liabilities 115
Chapter 9: Examining the Equity Section 131
Part IV: Investigating Income and Cash Flow 143
Chapter 10: Understanding Profi t or Loss 145
Chapter 11: Figuring Out the Statement of Cash Flows under UKGAAP and IFRS 165
Chapter 12: Discovering and Understanding Depreciation 181
Chapter 13: Dealing with and Accounting for Inventory 195
Part V: Analysing the Financial Statements 207
Chapter 14: Using Ratios and Other Tools 209
Chapter 15: Delving into the Disclosures 225
Chapter 16: Reporting to Shareholders 241
Part VI: Tackling More Advanced
Financial Accounting Topics 255
Chapter 17: Accounting for Business Combinations 257
Chapter 18: Accounting for Income Taxes 275
Chapter 19: Accounting for Leases 287
Chapter 20: Reporting Changes in Policies and Estimates andCorrecting Errors 299
Part VII: The Part of Tens 311
Chapter 21: Ten Financial Accounting Shenanigans 313
Chapter 22: Ten Industries with Special Accounting Standards321
Index 329

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Collings is the audit and technical director for Leavitt Walmsley Associates Ltd, a Chartered Certified Accountants based in Sale, south Manchester. He specialises in financial reporting and auditing, and has an interest in small business taxation issues. Steve has written extensively for AccountingWEB.co.uk and is author of The Interpretation and Application of International Standards on Auditing and IFRS For Dummies, also published by Wiley. Maire Loughran, CPA, is a member of the American Association of Certified Public Accountants. An adjunct professor of auditing, accounting and taxation courses, she is also the author of Auditing For Dummies.