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Familiarise yourself with essential accounting and finance principles for business decision-making, and connect your learning with relevant examples from real world businesses 
Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 12th Edition by Peter Atrill and Eddie McLaney is a highly accessible introduction to the subject. It equips you with a solid foundation in the principles and practice of accounting and finance, thereby laying the groundwork necessary to make successful business decisions in your future career. 
Covering financial accounting, management accounting and financial management in a single text, you will discover what the major financial statements contain and why they are useful. You will also gain an appreciation of the key roles that accounting and finance play in business decision-making. This easy-to-follow textbook examines widely-used accounting techniques, considers important international financial standards and contains a range of relevant, real-world examples, many of which are new to this edition. Activities and exercises frequently appear throughout the book and provide opportunities to engage with the issues raised.    Instructors, pair this text with MyLab Accounting  MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that allows instructors to reach every student with powerful self-study material and assessments. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalises the learning experience and improves results for each student.  
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Familiarise yourself with essential accounting and finance principles for business decision-making, and connect your learning with relevant examples from real world businesses Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 12th Edition by Peter Atrill and Eddie McLaney is a highly accessible introduction to the subject. It equips you with a solid foundation in the principles and practice of accounting and finance, thereby laying the groundwork necessary to make successful business decisions in your future career. Covering financial accounting, management accounting and financial management in a single text, you will discover what the major financial statements contain and why they are useful. You will also gain an appreciation of the key roles that accounting and finance play in business decision-making. This easy-to-follow textbook examines widely-used accounting techniques, considers important international financial standards and contains a range of relevant, real-world examples, many of which are new to this edition. Key features : Activities and exercises frequently appear throughout the book and provide opportunities to engage with the issues raised and check your progress. New and updated real world examples help you understand the relationship between principles and practice and how accounting concepts impact the financial decisions of real businesses. Clear style, now incorporating more diagrams to explain and reinforce key points. Up-to-date coverage, including introductory material on ethics and accounting, as well as revisions to the text to accommodate changes to the regulatory framework governing companies. Instructors, pair this text with MyLab Accounting MyLab(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that allows you to reach every student with powerful self-study material and assessments. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalises the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Accounting for this edition includes over 1500 questions that can be assigned to students. Peter Atrill is a freelance academic and author who has worked with leading institutions in the UK, Europe and South-East Asia. As well as working as a business consultant, he was previously Head of Business and Management and Head of Accounting and Law at Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth. Eddie McLaney is an academic author with many years' experience of teaching Accounting and Finance. He was formerly the Accounting Subject Group Leader and Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth. Pearson, the world's learning company.

Author Biography

Peter Atrill is a freelance academic and author who has worked with leading institutions in the UK, Europe and South-East Asia. As well as working as a business consultant, he was previously Head of Business and Management and Head of Accounting and Law at Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth. 
Eddie McLaney is an academic author with many years' experience of teaching Accounting and Finance. He was formerly the Accounting Subject Group Leader and Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth. 

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to accounting and finance
PART ONE: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 2 Measuring and reporting financial position  3 Measuring and reporting financial performance 4 Accounting for limited companies 5 Measuring and reporting cash flows 6 Analysing and interpreting financial statements  
PART TWO: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 7 The relevance and behaviour of costs  8 Full costing 9 Budgeting  
PART THREE: FINANCE 10 Making capital investment decisions 11 Financing a business 12 Managing working capital  
Appendix A: Glossary of key terms Appendix B: Solutions to self-assessment questions  Appendix C: Solutions to critical review questions Appendix D: Solutions to selected exercises Appendix E: Present value table  Index 

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Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 12th Edition equips students with a solid foundation in the principles and practice of accounting and finance, thereby laying the groundwork necessary to make successful business decisions in their careers. Covering financial accounting, management accounting and financial management in a single text, the text explains the roles that accounting and finance play in business decision-making. As well as covering widely-used accounting techniques, the text also considers important international financial standards and contains a range of relevant, real-world examples, some of which consider the impacts and pressures on businesses caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic - such as aircraft manufacturers like Airbus, airlines, goods manufacturers, and the energy company BP. Activities and exercises frequently appear throughout the book and provide opportunities to engage with the issues raised. Clear introduction to key principles of accounting and finance Combines financial accounting, management accounting and financial management into one volume Retains its focus on decision making to prepare students for a career in business . Uses a step-by-step approach, equipping students with principles and techniques and building up their skills with the embedded Activities and applied Examples. Help students make sense of real accounting issues with relevant, real-life examples NEW - Articles and examples in this edition demonstrate the various impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on prominent businesses, explaining how they have responded to pressure on their industries. Examples include the energy company BP, the airline company EasyJet and makers of aircraft components such as Rolls Royce and Airbus. UPDATED - New and updated real world examples make use of arresting new data and scenarios, helping students understand the theory as it actually is applied in practice in the business environment. By regularly checking the Real World boxes in every chapter your students will be able to connect accounting concepts with real companies'' decision-making and see the relevance of learning accounting and finance topics and techniques. Enable group-work and individual learning & revision with helpful pedagogical features seamlessly woven into the text UPDATED - More diagrams and charts are included throughout the text, making processes and conceptual discussions easy to grasp, and explain and reinforce key points. UPDATED - Regular Examples and Activities sections get students thinking and are chosen to come at the most helpful and most necessary points in each chapter. Chapters conclude with a key points summary and Self-Assessment Question boxes which help students periodically consolidate what they have been learning to help them build confidence in the subject, while the Critical Review Questions encourage students in problem solving and to think more deeply about accounting and finance decisions. UPDATED - End of chapter exercises covering a range of levels which, together with the activities integrated throughout the book, provide excellent opportunities to test students'' knowledge of core ideas and to develop critical thinking. A full set of solutions is provided, some within the book and some as a download available for lecturers, found in the Instructor''s Manual at go.pearson.com/uk/he/resources. Updated content reflecting changes in the field UPDATED - Up-to-date coverage, including introductory material on ethics and accounting, as well as revisions to the text to accommodate changes to rules on corporate governance. Instructors, pair this text with MyLab Accounting MyLab(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that allows instructors to reach every student with powerful self-study material and assessments. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalises the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Accounting for this edition includes over 1500 questions that can be assigned to students. Teach your course your way : Your course is unique. So whether you''d like to build your own assignments, teach multiple sections, or set prerequisites, MyLab gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs. It now includes an increased number of exercises and problems to assign for practice and formative or summative assessment. 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Updated content reflecting changes in the field Up-to-date coverage, including introductory material on ethics and accounting, as well as revisions to the text to accommodate changes to rules on corporate governance, including the companies that govern the regulatory framework. Help students make sense of real accounting issues - in a world affected by the Covid-19 pandemic Articles and examples in this edition demonstrate the various impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on prominent businesses, explaining how they have responded to pressure on their industries. Examples include the energy company BP, the airline company EasyJet and makers of aircraft components such as Rolls Royce and Airbus. New and updated real world examples add variety and interest to the subject by making use of arresting new data and scenarios, helping students understand the theory as it actually is applied in practice in the business environment. By regularly checking the Real World boxes in every chapter your students will be able to connect accounting concepts with real companies'' decision-making and see the relevance of learning accounting and finance topics and techniques. Enable group-work and individual learning & revision with helpful pedagogical features, updated for this edition More diagrams and charts are included throughout the text, making processes and conceptual discussions easy to grasp, and explain and reinforce key points. Updated in several chapters, regular Examples and Activities sections get students thinking and are chosen to come at the most helpful and most necessary points in each chapter. A portion of the end of chapter exercises have been revised. These cover a range of levels and provide excellent opportunities to test students'' knowledge of core ideas and to develop critical thinking. A full set of solutions is provided, some within the book and some as a download available for lecturers, found in the Instructor''s Manual at go.pearson.com/uk/he/resources. Reach every student using MyLab Accounting to assign practice exercises and formative or summative assessment New to this edition, 4 video exercises covering key concepts in management accounting provide new animated videos which could be used to help consolidate concepts learned in class, or to check understanding in advance of upcoming teaching sessions. Students can refer to the video to help with their understanding the concept before answering a question or problem. Topics include: Break-even point (ch.7), Full costing (ch.8), Time Value of Money (ch.10), and Investment appraisal (ch.10). 5 videos have been added into the incorrect answer feedback for 64 questions, meaning that students who have struggled with a question can review information on a key concept related to that question. For this edition, scenarios in a portion of MyLab questions have been revised to incorporate more diverse characters and a balance of genders. For this 12th edition, over 100 previously static questions have been turned into algorithmic ones, which means that each student works on a numerical problem that is individual to him or her. This brings the total number of algorithmic questions in the MyLab to 545. There are now over 1500 exercises in MyLab that can be selected and assigned for formative or summative work. Students can view their results and instructors can track student performance in the sophisticated Gradebook. Approximately half of the exercises in this MyLab are NOT multiple choice but are other question types, enabling testing of students'' performance in a variety of different ways.

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