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Author Cunningham, Billie M., author

Title Accounting : information for business decisions / Billie M Cunningham, Loren A Nikolai, John D Bazley, Marie Kavanagh, Geoff Slaughter and Sharelle Simmons
Edition 2nd edition
Published South Melbourne, Vic. : Cengage Learning, [2015]
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Contents Title page; Copyright page; Brief contents; Contents; Preface; Resources guide; About the authors; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ACCOUNTING AND THEROLE OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS; The changing business environment; The successful businessperson; Private enterprise; The forms that businesses take; The regulatory environment of business; The accounting system; Management activities; Accounting support for management activities; Accounting support for external decision making; Ethics in business and accounting; The accountant of the 21st century; Critical thinking
Applying critical thinking to business decisionsOrientation of the book; Framework of the book; Summary; Key terms; Weblinks; Integrated business and accounting situations; Dr Decisive; Endnotes; List of company URLs; CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPING A BUSINESS PLAN: COST-VOLUME-PROFITANALYSIS; Planning in a new business; Cost-volume-profit (C-V-P) planning; Using C-V-P analysis; Other planning issues; What can happen if a business doesn't have a business plan; Business issues and values: waste not, want not; Summary; Key terms; Weblinks; Integrated business and accounting situations; Dr Decisive
EndnotesList of company URLs; CHAPTER 3 DEVELOPING A BUSINESS PLAN: BUDGETING; Why budget?; Operating cycles; The budget as a framework for planning; Using the master budget in evaluating the business' performance; Budgets: business issues and ideas; Summary; Key terms; Weblinks; Integrated business and accounting situations; Dr Decisive; Endnotes; List of company URLs; CHAPTER 4 THE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS; Financial accounting information and decision making; Basic concepts and terms used in accounting; Components of the accounting equation
Accounting for transactions to start a businessExpanding the accounting equation; Accounting principles and concepts related to net income; Recording daily operations; End-of-period adjustments; Net income and its effect on the balance sheet; Business issues and values: A billion here, a billion there; Summary; Key terms; Weblinks; Integrated business and accounting situations; Dr Decisive; List of company URLs; CHAPTER 5 RECORDING, STORING AND REPORTING ACCOUNTINGINFORMATION; Accounts; Accounting cycle; Recording (journalising) transactions; Posting from journals to the accounts
Trial balancePreparing adjusting entries; Adjusted trial balance; Preparing the financial statements; Preparation of closing entries; Modifications for companies; Other journal entries; Accounting information: business issues and values; Summary; Key terms; Weblinks; Integrated business and accounting situations; Dr Decisive; List of company URLs; CHAPTER 6 MANAGING AND REPORTING WORKING CAPITAL; Working capital; Cash; Accounts receivable; Inventory; Accounts payable; Working capital: business issues and values; Summary; Key terms; Weblinks; Integrated business and accounting situations
Summary A business focused introduction to Accounting for all students - not just those intending to be Accounting majors. Lead students through the real-world business cycle and how accounting information informs decision-making. Students learn how to base decisions on two kinds of accounting information '" managerial and financial. Departing from the traditional approach taken by other introductory accounting textbooks, students apply both managerial and financial approaches within the topics examined in each chapter. The conversational writing engages students in the theoretical content and how it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Accounting -- Textbooks
Business planning.
Business -- Decision making
Accounting.
Business -- Decision making.
Business planning.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
Form Electronic book
Author Bazlley, John D, author
Kavanagh, Marie, author
Nikkolai, Loren A, author
Simmons, Sharelle, author
Slaughter, Geoff, author
ISBN 9780170270861
0170270866