Accounting for Business Studies

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Accounting for Business Studies explains the role of accounting in modern business and management and shows you how to confidently evaluate ideas using profit and loss accounts, spreadsheets and cash flow forecasts etc. It illustrates financial models and concepts enabling you to write professional reports and prepare presentations on complex business problems. It gives you sufficient breadth of vision and commercial awareness to make recommendations on operational and strategic issues. The approach adopted is particularly relevant to undergraduate business students and the text will also serve as an introduction to MBA studies as well as professional accounting and management courses. No prior knowledge of accounting is assumed. Developing students' understanding of how complex businesses work in the global context is a difficult task. Accounting for Modern Business helps lecturers focus on modern commercial issues and integrates accounting into business and management studies This book includes: * A business perspective rather than an accounting perspective * Tight pedagogic structure * e-business, including case studies * Globalisation, including case studies * Business skills, interpretation, analysis and communication * IT integrated into specific business situations * Risk factors and risk reduction * Includes models such as Porter's Five Forces, Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Aneirin Sion Owen is a Chartered Accountant and Senior Lecturer in accounting at Manchester Metropolitan University