(BQ) Part 1 book "Financial and management accounting an introduction" has contents: Financial statements from the accounting equation; ensuring the quality of financial statements; accounting information for service businesses; accounting information for trading businesses;.and other contents. | 18/4/06 10:53 Page 1 New to the fourth edition: ■ Fully in line with IFRS, but provides comparative analysis with UK GAAP where relevant. ■ New case study material including extracts from annual reports for companies such as The Body Shop, Sainsbury's, British Airports Authority, Matalan, Argos, Homebase, Burberry, Ottakers, Carphone Warehouse and BP. ■ Experience-driven conversations between two managers appear at intervals throughout the text, providing a valuable insight into the type of interpretative comment which the reader may find more taxing. These discussions allow a more candid examination of issues and problems within the subject. ■ Fully redesigned text to aid navigation and understanding for students, including a unique colourcoding system to make technical material more accessible. ■ Activity-based costing, strategic management accounting, the balanced scorecard and benchmarking are included in the main management accounting chapters. ■ The approach to teaching and learning focuses on subject-specific knowledge outcomes and generic skills outcomes, with end-of-chapter self-evaluation. ■ Questions are graded to test student understanding of chapter content, as well as skills in straightforward application of knowledge, and skills of problem solving and evaluation. Financial and Management Accounting: An Introduction is aimed at first-level undergraduates on business studies degrees taking introductory financial accounting and management accounting classes; first-level specialist accounting undergraduate students; introductory core accounting for MBA and postgraduate specialist Masters students (. finance, actuarial studies), focusing on analysis through the accounting equation and a questioning approach to problem solving; and professional courses where accounting is introduced for the first time. The book is accompanied by a comprehensive support package for lecturers, arranged on a chapter-by-chapter basis and comprising the .
