The Finance and Accounting Desktop Guide
Overview
What is this book about?
The Finance and Accounting Desktop Guide is the ideal introduction to accounting for the non-financial professional – comprehensive, practical and accessible. Each chapter is in two parts: section one explains the basic statements, definitions and models, section two develops the subject in more depth.
This way you can uncover basics first without being overwhelmed by unnecessary details or complication – and study section two as and when you need to.
You can use this book as a desk companion to refer to as and when you need to, or you can use it as a text and work your way through each of the topics.
Key features
- A CD containing 26 spreadsheets to aid your own planning, budgeting and forecasting
- Plenty of examples of different statements throughout the text
- Review questions and feedback
- Checklists, definitions and icons to highlight the text
- Large ring-binder format so you can add your own notes
- An expert consultant and author with the power to ensure you grasp each concept first time around
Contents overview
1 Balance Sheets
2 Profit and Loss Accounts
3 Cash Flow Statements
4 Accounting Records and Systems
5 Accounting Concepts, Policies and Standards
6 Interpretation
7 Cash Budgeting
8 Costing for Planning
9 Costing
10 Budgeting
Book Details
- Format:
- Download (PDF)
- ISBN:
- 978 185418486 3
- Pages:
- 328
- Publication Date:
- 2007
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Content
CHAPTER ONE
Section 1:
- Balance sheets
- What is a balance sheet?
- What do balance sheets reveal?
- Interpreting balance sheet profiles
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Balance sheets
- Balance sheets: structure and contents – UK
- Interpreting the balance sheet
- Balance sheets: structure and contents – US
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER TWO
Section 1:
- Profit and loss accounts
- What is a profit and loss account?
- What do profit and loss accounts reveal about a business?
- CHECKLIST
- Profit and loss accounts
- Profit and loss accounts in published or statutory accounts
- US revenue or income statement
- (P & L account) structure and contents
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER THREE
Section 1:
- Cash flow statements
- If there are profits there must be cash
- Cash flow statements
- What can cash flow statements tell us?
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Cash flow statements
- Published cash flow statements
- Definitions
- Compiling and interpreting a cash flow statement
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER FOUR
Section 1:
- Accounting records and systems
- Why have accounting records?
- Distinction between accounting systems and accounting records
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Accounting records and systems
- Accounting systems and procedures
- Classic ledger structure
- Sales system
- Purchase system
- Wages system
- Audit function
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER FIVE
Section 1:
- Accounting concepts, policies and standards
- Why do we need concepts and rules?
- Fundamental accounting concepts
- Fundamental concepts in operation
- Accounting policies
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Accounting concepts, policies and standards
- Accounting standards
- Detailed accounting policies
- Developing accounting policies
- A contractor
- A travel agency
- Creative accounting
- Creative accounting illustration
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER SIX
Section 1:
- Interpretation
- Ratio analysis
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Interpretation
- Detailed ratio analysis
- Profitability ratios
- Asset turnover analysis
- Stock market measures
- Detailed performance measurement – bench marking
- What is bench marking?
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER SEVEN
Section 1:
- Cash budgeting
- Cash flow forecasts
- Outline of a simple cash flow forecast
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Cash budgeting
- What is capital expenditure?
- Cash flow forecasts
- Non-discounted measures
- Discounted cash flow techniques and measures
- Sensitivity analysis
- CHECKLIST
CHAPTER EIGHT
Section 1:
- Costing for planning
- What is costing?
- Costing for planning
- CHECKLIST
Section 2:
- Costing for planning
- Detailed planning and break-even analysis
- CHECKLIST