About the book

Finance and Accounting for Business gives a user or non-specialist perspective on accounting. It introduces financial and management accounting and finance clearly and comprehensively to business and management students and those from other disciplines who need a broad understanding of this topic for use in their future career.
Accounting and finance are 'need to know' subjects for managers and students of business. Until now both students and lecturers have been frustrated by the lack of a book which does justice to the importance of these subjects and which connects with both the theory and the practice of management. Based upon thirty years' teaching experience Bob Ryan has produced an original and dynamic text designed to meet the needs of the student and lecturer.
The book gives students on executive or general MBA courses an overview of the role of accounting and finance in business, and is also suitable for undergraduates of business and management studies.

New to this edition

• Chapters 1 - 5 (financial accounting) are updated to bring it into line with the' International Financial Reporting Standards' terminology and layouts (particularly with respect to the Income Statement and Cash flow Statement)
• The 'balance sheet equation' term is removed and replaced by 'extended trial balance' and elements of the current appendix on bookkeeping are brought into chapters 2 and 3.
• Chapter 2 will be split into two shorter chapters in order to better pace the study of the subject at this early stage.
• Chapter 5 on the analysis and interpretation of accounts is extended and split into two chapters. The material on the investor ratios currently in chapter 12 will be brought into this chapter to give a more coherent treatment of accounting analysis.