Preface -- How to use this book -- Guided tours -- Guided tours of myaccountinglab -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to accounting -- Financial accounting -- Measuring and reporting financial position -- Measuring and reporting financial performance -- Accounting for limited companies -- Accounting for limited companies -- Measuring and reporting cash flows -- Analysing and interpreting financial statements -- Management accounting -- Relevant costs for decision making -- Cost-volume-profit analysis -- Full costing -- Costing and performance evaluation in a competitive environment -- Budgeting -- Accounting for control -- Financial management -- Making capital investment decisions -- Financing a business -- Managing working capital -- Supplementary information -- Appendix A: recording financial transactions -- Appendix B: glossary of key terms -- Appendix C: solutions to self-assessment questions -- Appendix D: solutions to review questions -- Appendix E: solutions to selected exercises -- Appendix F: present value table -- Index.

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