Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Accounting 3e provides a very accessible and easy-to-follow introduction to accounting. It is intended as a core textbook for students studying accounting for the first time: either those following an undergarduate degree in a business school, or non-business studies students stuyding an accounting course. This includes students on both accounting and non-accounting degrees and also MBA students.
Designed to be both engaging and accessible to the student, Accounting 3e features:
- A lively presentational style integrating cartoons and soundbites
- 'Company Camera' boxes presenting financial data from a wide variety of international companies, such as Heineken, Nokia and Volkswagen.
- 'Real Life Nuggets' offering contemporary examples from the business press that give the body of the text a real-life resonance.
- End of chapter questions of escalating difficulty, together with accompanying answers, enabling the student to develop their understanding of the key concepts discussed in the text.
- A rich supporting website including solutions, extra question material and powerpoint slides for lecturers, multiple choice quizzes and an online glossary for students.
Synopsis
We asked over 5000 accounting lecturers what would help them teach and students learn?
The results were:
Help with student engagement and varying levels of ability;
Real world examples to be used in class;
Content to break up lectures and engage students.
Accounting 3e has been developed to incorporate these elements and much more
Accounting 3e provides a very accessible and easy-to-follow introduction and is aimed at students studying accounting for the first time. The book introduces concepts in an engaging and easy-to-follow manner, and examples are tried and tested with many graded questions and answers.
The third edition is updated to reflect IFRS terminologies and format including the reorganisation of the UK standards committee in July 2012. Double entry bookkeeping is included, however, this can be bypassed for students not requiring this.