Finance and Accounting for Business

by Bob Ryan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.31

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $5.40

  This book is a major new introductory survey of financial accounting, management accounting and financial management for non-specialist students, mainly business courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. This book covers all the major topic areas the market would expect at this level. It does not patronise but instead allows the reader to develop their knowledge of the subject from the basis of their own experience. The text is replete with examples drawn from real cases, both from the UK and internationally, designed to engage the reader's interest in a vital and dynamic way. Accounting and finance are core subjects in the business curriculum. They are also the most challenging to master and to teach at the entry level. This book is designed to overcome these problems, first by teaching the subject in the simplest way possible and second, by engaging the reader in an active learning dialogue between the concepts needed to understand the subject and the practical examples that highlight issues. The material is designed to appeal to the 'first time reader'. It recognises that the reader is either studying or engaged in business and is likely to have less interest in the academic debates that surround the subject than an approach which contextualises the subject within the problems of running a business. A wide range of examples is chosen with relevance to the experience of the target audience. For the teacher this book offers concrete benefits: first, it adopts the structure favoured in most syllabus designs, second, it offers a wealth of activities and assessment materials and third, it is supported by a web-site with materials designed to aid the tutor.