
Accounting in Context for Non-Specialists
Mark Fisher, Makailla McConnell, Mark Walsh
ISBN: 9781911635680 PBK; 9781911635697 eBook
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- Focuses on concepts and techniques explaining them in a clearly with minimum jargon.
- Enables readers to become informed engagers with accounting information.
- Authored by teaching practitioners who use their own professional experience to ensure the content of the book is both engaging and relevant.
Many non-accounting students are intimidated by the complexity of accounting language and the focus on technique and mathematics. Accounting in Context for Non-Specialists focuses on concepts and uses plain English where possible, covering accounting techniques when they are necessary to better understand the language of accounting or where they illustrate a particular concept or problem. Accounting goes beyond just counting; this book gets to the big concepts quickly, which is ultimately what decision makers must recognise to be able to be informed engagers with accounting information.
Authored by practitioners with many years of teaching experience and who understand the issues of teaching accounting to large and varied student cohorts, the authors draw from their own professional experience to ensure the content of the book is both engaging and relevant. The book will encourage students not merely to study current problems in accounting, but also seeks to get them to actively engage in proposing solutions.
About the Authors
Mark Fisher, Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting, University of Sussex, UK
Makailla McConnell, Teaching Fellow, University of Sussex, UK
Matthew Walsh, Teaching Fellow and Course Director of the International Accounting & Corporate Governance MSc, University of Sussex, UK
Publication: May 2023
Table of contents
Introduction to the approach that this book will take, and how to use it effectively in teaching and learningCh 1 Accounting history; Section 1 Accounting Concepts: Ch 2 Cash is King; Ch 3 What is profit?; Ch 4 What is a balance sheet?; Ch 5 Accounting judgement and professional ethics; Ch 6 Financial Accounting and Management Accounting: Why such a split of ideas?; Section 2 Financial Accounting: Ch 7 Evaluation of financial performance; Ch 8 IFRS; Ch 9 The not for profit world; Section 3 – Management Accounting: Ch 10 – A world with multiple answers to the same question; Ch 11 – Management Accounting in practice (things you are liable to meet in your career); Index
Table of contents
Introduction to the approach that this book will take, and how to use it effectively in teaching and learningCh 1 Accounting history; Section 1 Accounting Concepts: Ch 2 Cash is King; Ch 3 What is profit?; Ch 4 What is a balance sheet?; Ch 5 Accounting judgement and professional ethics; Ch 6 Financial Accounting and Management Accounting: Why such a split of ideas?; Section 2 Financial Accounting: Ch 7 Evaluation of financial performance; Ch 8 IFRS; Ch 9 The not for profit world; Section 3 – Management Accounting: Ch 10 – A world with multiple answers to the same question; Ch 11 – Management Accounting in practice (things you are liable to meet in your career); Index
About the authors
Mark Fisher, Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting, University of Sussex, UKMakailla McConnell, Teaching Fellow, University of Sussex, UK
Matthew Walsh, Teaching Fellow and Course Director of the International Accounting & Corporate Governance MSc, University of Sussex, UK