IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/oxp/obooks/9780198719861.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

Accounting for Business

Author

Listed:
  • Scott, Peter

    (De Montfort University)

Abstract

This textbook is a refreshingly clear introduction to the core accounting topics that non-specialist students need to master. Designed to help students learn key principles, reinforce understanding, and apply accounting concepts to real business decisions, it is an ideal first stepping stone into the world of accounting. Peter Scott's Accounting for Business: DT Offers full coverage of key accounting concepts in an authoritative manner whilst remaining sensitive to the needs of non-specialist students by using a straightforward writing style and crystal clear explanations; DT Firmly sets accounting principles in context by using newspaper articles and online media to help students understand the relevance of accounting to a variety of business professions; DT A range of Financial and Management Accounting examples recur throughout the book so students can strengthen their understanding of the material covered as the author regularly reviews and recaps information. Its unique online workbook includes the following features for students: DT Interactive Multiple Choice Questions for revising key topics; DT Numerical exercises to help you practise the calculation of accounting information from given sets of data; DT 'Go back over this again' feature containing a mix of further examples, written exercises, true or false questions and annotated accounting information to help you revise and revisit concepts you may be unsure of; DT Narrated video presentations provide practical demonstrations of how more complex accounting tasks are dealt with; DT Web links directing you towards primary source material and articles from which you can learn more about the companies and organizations covered in the book. The second edition is also available with Dashboard, a brand new online learning and assessment tool. Dashboard provides lecturers with a complete solution to teaching accounting, featuring: DT Quizzes. A test bank of over 500 ready-to-use questions, tailored specifically to Accounting for Business. Gives you the flexibility you need to manage, set and develop quizzes that are tailored perfectly to your course. - Gradebook. Automatically grades student responses to quizzes, while its visual heat maps provide at-a-glance information about student achievement and engagement. DT Course content. Additional material to support your teaching, including PowerPoint slides and additional examples and solutions. DT Communication. Share course news, spark a class discussion, or email your students with course information, all through the communication tab.

Suggested Citation

  • Scott, Peter, 2015. "Accounting for Business," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 2, number 9780198719861.
  • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198719861
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. repec:prg:jnlpep:v:preprint:id:678:p:1-16 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Florian Marcel Nuta, 2015. "Fair Value Accounting Crisis Debate – A Review," Annals - Economy Series, Constantin Brancusi University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1, pages 136-139, February.
    3. Tomáš Buus, 2018. "Risks and Transfer Pricing Regulation at the Multinational Enterprises' Routine Units: A Literature Review," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2018(6), pages 621-636.
    4. Oludamola Durodola & Patricia Fusch & Steven Tippins, 2017. "A Case-Study of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing of Immigrants in Lloydminster, Canada," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(8), pages 1-37, July.
    5. Nguyen Duy Kieu Phung & Nguyen Duy Can, 2019. "Is Accounting Information Still Relevant in the Internet Age? Research on the Determination of the Effect of Google Trends Data on Earnings Response Coefficient: Case of Vietnam," Journal of Asian Development, Macrothink Institute, vol. 5(3), pages 69-78, November.
    6. Irene M. Gordon & Karel Hrazdil & Johnny Jermias & Xin Li, 2021. "The Effect of Misalignment of CEO Personality and Corporate Governance Structures on Firm Performance," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-20, August.
    7. Enni Savitri & Andreas Andreas & Almasdi Syahza & Tatang Ary Gumanti & Nik Herda Nik Abdullah, 2020. "Corporate governance mechanism and financial performance: role of earnings management," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 7(4), pages 3395-3409, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198719861. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Economics Book Marketing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.oup.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.