Product Description

This book fills an obvious gap in the market for a good combined finance and accounting source for MBA and executive students. Avoiding a number crunching and preparation approach, Essential Finance and Accounting for Managers focuses instead on critical analysis, interpretation and real life orientation. It takes MBA students beyond the beginners/non specialist level and helps them apply finance with accounting tools and techniques to the real world of business.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #409496 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover
   Essential Finance and Accounting for Managers is a brand new introductory book which identifies the importance of applying accounting and finance tools and techniques to the real world of business. It takes a concise approach to the subject, focusing on the material that the busy manager or executive needs to know in daily business affairs. The book has a distinctive and user-friendly style, making it highly accessible for beginners and non-specialists in this field. Chadwick avoids the number-crunching and preparation approach and takes the ‘beginner’ beyond the realm of the non-specialist to develop a thorough understanding of finance and accounting in the work environment. He places the emphasis on ensuring that users are able to gain a sound understanding of financial management, managerial accounting and financial accounting; for example, how financial statements are arrived at and how to interpret, analyse and use financial information.  Essential Finance and Accounting for Managers is ideal for MBA, MA, non-professional accounting students and those who are on executive development courses. Features

• Concise yet user-friendly approach and style

• Emphasis on interpretation and analysis with a real life orientation

• Excellent learning features throughout each chapter, including objectives, self assessment questions with solutions, step-by-step examples, numerous diagrams, charts and cartoons

• Case studies with outline solutions and comments

• Up-to-date FT extracts and references, integrated throughout the book.
  

 A web-based Instructor’s Manual with OHT masters, further cases and solutions is available to lecturers adopting the text.   Leslie Chadwick is an experienced author and Head of Work Experience Placements and a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Bradford University School of Management.

About the Author
Les Chadwick is an experienced author and teacher based at Bradford Management School.