Short description
Topics covered in this text include: the nature and context of accounting; trading entities; processing and controlling volumes of transactions; trade receivables; elementary taxation; payroll accounting; and financial statement analysis and interpretation.
Long description
Whether you are taking one course in elementary accounting or studying to become a chartered accountant, this guide is designed to make the subject accessible and your studying easy and enjoyable. It is written in a friendly, personal style, and provides many examples with which students can identify. The text achieves this through a variety of means: integrating learning objectives with the text so that students are reminded at regular intervals of what they should be able to achieve at that stage of their studies; regularly allowing students to test their theoretical understanding of concepts and principles, through use of self-tests; encouraging students to assess their technical understanding and ability to apply this understanding frequently, through use of activities, for which solutions are provided; providing students with the oppurtunity to review each chapter by completing revision questions, for which solutions are provided; assisting students with revision questions by providing a suggested approach for each question.