Introduction to Accounting and Finance

Geoff Black is a chartered accountant and a principal lecturer at Harper Adams University College. He has also been Chief Examiner for a major UK examining board for many years. Formerly head of professional accountancy courses at Anglia Business School, Cambridge, he is the author of several textbooks, including Students’ Guide to Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards.

Preface
Acknowledgements 

1. The background to accounting
2. Recording financial transactions
3. Applying controls and concepts to financial information
4. The profit and loss account and balance sheet
5. A further look at assets and liabilities
6. Revision chapter (1)
7. Accounting and financing of multi-owner organisations
8. Incomplete records and club accounts
9. Cash flow: past and future
10. Making sense of financial statements       
11. Revision chapter (2)
12. An introduction to management accounting
13. Absorption costing and marginal costing
14.  Product costing
15.  Break-even and cost-volume-profit analysis
16. Budgeting
17.  Investment appraisal
18.  Revision chapter (3)

Appendix 1: Answers to self-check questions
Appendix 2: Answers to self-study questions
Appendix 3: Answers to case study questions
Appendix 4: Answers to practice examination papers 1, 2 & 3
Index