Accounting Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition

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Accounting Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition by John A. Tracy and Jane Kelly guides readers through the fundamentals of accounting with practical exercises tailored for the UK context. It offers a hands-on approach to understanding financial reports, bookkeeping processes, and essential accounting principles, making complex concepts more accessible and less intimidating. Ideal for students, small business owners, or anyone looking to enhance their accounting skills.
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Accounting Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition

Want to become an accountant? Own a small business but need help balancing your books? And worried about managing your finances under the cloud of the recession? This workbook gets you up to speed with the basics of business accounting, including reading financial reports, establishing budgets, and making financial decisions.

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Want to become an accountant? Own a small business but need help balancing your books? Worried about managing your finances under the cloud of the recession?

This hands-on workbook gets you up to speed with the basics of business accounting, including reading financial reports, establishing budgets, controlling cash flow, and making wise financial decisions. The question and answer sections encourage you to find your own solutions to challenging accounting problems - and there's plenty of space to scribble your workings out!

Accounting Workbook For Dummies is the only book that makes truly light work of the financial fundamentals that many businesspeople try to bluff their way through every day. Accounting Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition covers:

Part I: Business Accounting Basics

  • Chapter 1: Elements of Business Accounting
  • Chapter 2: Financial Effects of Transactions
  • Chapter 3: Getting Started in the Bookkeeping Cycle
  • Chapter 4: The Bookkeeping Cycle: Adjusting and Closing Entries

Part II: Preparing Financial Statements

  • Chapter 5: The Effects and Reporting of Profit
  • Chapter 6: Reporting Financial Condition in the Balance Sheet
  • Chapter 7: Coupling the Profit & Loss Statement and Balance Sheet
  • Chapter 8: Reporting Cash Flows and Changes in Owners' Equity
  • Chapter 9: Choosing Accounting Methods

Part III: Managerial, Manufacturing, and Capital Accounting

  • Chapter 10: Analysing Profit Behavior
  • Chapter 11: Manufacturing Cost Accounting
  • Chapter 12: Figuring Out Interest and Return on Investment

Part IV: The Part of Tens

  • Chapter 13: Ten Things You Should Know About Business Financial Statements
  • Chapter 14: A Ten-Point Checklist for Management Accountants

Main changes in the UK edition include:

  • UK Accounting practice
  • Currency
  • UK institutions - Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise etc
  • National Insurance, PAYE
  • UK taxation and VAT
  • Partnerships and Limited company information
  • UK legal practice
  • UK specific forms
  • UK specific case studies

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470747162

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 November 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 737g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Jane Kelly is a chartered management accountant, bookkeeping teacher and business author.

John A. Tracy is Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado.

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