Almost everyone will have some connection to accounting – in business, through self-employment, personal banking or even listening to the financial news on the television or radio. This book will help readers to understand and use accounting information. Introducing terms like ‘debits’, ‘pre-tax income’ and ‘goodwill’, it covers all the basic concepts in accounting and considers its main areas, such as bookkeeping, financial reporting, auditing and management accounting.
About the author Christopher Nobes is Professor of Accounting at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is also Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor of Accounting at the Norwegian Business School. He has written several popular works in the area of Accounting including Pocket Accounting: The Essentials of Accounting from A to Z (4th ed Economist Books, 2001) and the Dictionary of Accounting (Penguin, 2002).
