Description
Your plain–English guide to financial accounting for students and trainees.
Financial Accounting For Dummies provides students who are studying finance, accounting and business with the basic concepts, terminology, and methods to interpret, analyse, prepare and evaluate financial statements. Covers concepts accountants and other business professionals use to prepare reports; mergers and acquisitions purchase and pooling; free cash flow; and financial statement analysis.
Whether you′re a student on your way to earning a degree, working towards your ACCA qualification, or a trainee just starting out in your accounts career, Financial Accounting For Dummies gives you a wealth of information to grasp the subject.
- This UK version is adapted to take in UK accounting practice and international reporting standards
- Provides a firm grounding in interpreting, analysing, preparing and evaluating corporate financial statements
- Includes easy–to–understand explanations and real-life examples to consolidate learning
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Financial Accounting 7
Chapter 1: Seeing the Big Picture of Financial Accounting and International 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 Financial Accounting 53
Part II: Looking at Some Accounting Basics 65
Chapter 5: Doing the Books: The Process behind Financial Accounting 67
Chapter 6: Taking a Butcher’s at Accounting Methods Under UK 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 UK GAAP 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 and Correcting Errors 299
Part VII: The Part of Tens 311
Chapter 21: Ten Financial Accounting Shenanigans 313
Chapter 22: Ten Industries with Special Accounting Standards 321
Index 329
