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Business Accounting & Finance, 6th Edition

Catherine Gowthorpe

  • Copyright 2024
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Business Accounting & Finance 6th Edition by Catherine Gowthorpe
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Overview

Business Accounting and Finance, sixth edition, offers an accessible, concise introduction to management and financial accounting for first-year year business students and those taking non-business degrees.

With a wide variety of real-life examples of well-known brands such as Amazon, Samsung and Bosch, the author introduces relevant issues for accounting such as ethics and corporate governance . Packed with practical guidance including business scenarios and exercises, this resource will help students develop the skills they need in today's workplace.

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Meet the Authors

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Catherine Gowthorpe

Catherine Gowthorpe BA FCA is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant with over thirty years' experience as a lecturer and researcher in higher education in the UK and Spain. For many years, she was an examiner for two of the UK’s leading professional accounting bodies. She has published many articles on accounting and related areas such as auditing and professional ethics.

What's New

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  • The new Accounting in Practice feature at the beginning of each chapter places each topic in context so students can immediately understand its significance.
  • New content on liability measurement, make-or-buy decisions, the balanced scorecard and defining ESG provides students with up-to-date knowledge.
  • A new online chapter on corporate governance demonstrates the consequences of non-compliance for those who would like to go beyond the fundamentals.
  • Recognizable real-life examples illustrate the reality of accounting and finance and keep the text relevant and practical for students.
  • Comprehensive new exercises test and develop students’ knowledge and prepare them for exam success.
  • More resources including downloadable Excel files for selected exercises on the accompanying website hone students’ employability skills.

Features

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  • Step-by-step examples illustrate how accounting and finance theory is used in practice.
  • Real-life cases from well-known businesses engage students and bring the technical information to life.
  • Self-test questions are woven into the text so that students can check their understanding as they progress through each chapter.
  • A broad range of exercises at the end of each chapter enables students to test their knowledge and prepare for their exams.

Table of Contents

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Contents
1. The role of accounting in business

SECTION I: Financial accounting and reporting
2. The statement of financial position
3. The statement of profit or loss
4. Applying accounting conventions
5. Depreciation and amortization
6. The statement of cash flows
7. Financial reporting by limited companies
8. Understanding financial reports: trend analysis
9. Understanding financial reports: using accounting ratios

SECTION II: Management accounting
10. Management and cost accounting information
11. Costing: overview and basic techniques
12. Costing: accounting for overheads
13. Pricing
14. Marginal costing and decision making
15. Capital investment decisions
16. Budgets
17. Accounting for control
18. Performance measurement

SECTION III: Financial management
19. The management of working capital
20. Financing the business
Answers to self-test questions
Answers to exercises
Glossary
Index

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ISBN: 9781473792685
The new sixth edition of Gowthorpe’s Business Accounting and Finance is supported by a comprehensive MindTap. This fully flexible online learning platform is customizable to suit instructors’ specific course needs, providing students with all the tools they need to succeed. These include an interactive eReader, engaging multimedia, practice questions, assessment materials, revision aids, and analytics to help you track students’ progress. A fully updated companion website for instructors also includes the following resources: • Answers to all end-of-chapter questions. • A downloadable Instructor’s Manual including teaching notes with links to selected video resources. • PowerPoint presentations to accompany each chapter. • An extensive test bank. • Case Studies with solutions, now also including shorter case studies. • Additional questions and answers for exam revision. • A supplementary chapter on corporate governance. • A supplementary chapter on accounting in Germany.