Understanding Financial Accounting: A Guide for non-specialists

Focusing on the content that will benefit business and management students, and featuring a wealth of global examples from real businesses, the authors enable students to unpick and analyze financial statements with confidence.
Do your students struggle to engage with financial accounting topics? Look no further than Understanding Financial Accounting to help them actively engage with the content, understand the key concepts, and advance their analysis skills.
Writing specifically for those with no background in accounting, the authors focus on how to extract the information that will contribute to business decision making. Their conversational and captivating style makes even technical and complex principles unambiguous and immediately accessible.
A recurring case study, contextual examples, and real-world financial statements from multinational companies are interwoven throughout, demonstrating the principles in practice. Winfield, Graham, and Miller illuminate the relevan c e of IFRS and financial statement literacy to non-accountants, as well as guiding students towards carrying out analysis autonomously.
Students are also encouraged to develop their independent research and critical thinking skills by attempting a series of end-of-chapter questions. In addition, the book is complemented by the following online resources to support students and lecturers.
Features
Written in a highly engaging style, the authors provide refreshing and lively support to students
Focused on IFRS content and how to unlock the information valued by decision makers, the content is ideal for newcomers to accounting and supports readers as they progress to perform more advanced analysis
The authors address broader topics of vital interest to accounting and analysis, such as business valuations, financial scandals, and emerging trends in corporate reporting
Enriched by examples and real-world financial statements from a myriad of multinational companies, students can contextualize the subject matter and practise their interpretation skills
Each chapter closes with a series of questions that encourage independent learning andn criticaln thinking
these are accompanied by answer guidance from the authors
Further online resources such as additional case studies with questions, answer guidance, and multiple-choice-questions with instant feedback provide additional support t o students and teachers