Preface Abbreviations 1. The Nature and Purposes of Accounting and Its Management Interface 2. The Background to Traditional Accounting Statements 3. The Principal Accounting Statements 4. The Legal and Quasi-legal Background to Financial Reporting 5. Business Taxation 6. Auditing and Management 7. Obtaining Useful Information from Financial Statements 8.

Comparative International Financial Reporting 9. The Organisational Context of Accounting 10. Cost Concepts and Measurements 11. Accounting and Short-term Decisions 12. Overheads, Activity-based Costs and Pricing 13. Accounting and Longer-term Decision Making 14. Budgetary Planning and Control 15. Accounting as a Control System 16.

Internal Performance Evaluation and Transfer Pricing 17. Accounting and Working-capital Management 18. Accounting for Social Responsibility and the Environment 19. Strategic Business Accounting Notes Glossary of Terms References for Further Reading Index.