Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (July 5, 2024) © 2025

  • Peter Atrill University of Plymouth Business School
  • Eddie McLaney
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Title overview

Familiarise yourself with essential accounting and finance principles for business decision-making.

Connect your learning with relevant examples from real world businesses.

Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 12th Edition by Peter Atrill and Eddie McLaney is a highly accessible introduction to the subject. It equips you with a solid foundation in the principles and practice of accounting and finance, thereby laying the groundwork necessary to make successful business decisions in your future career.

Covering financial accounting, management accounting and financial management in a single text, you will discover what the major financial statements contain and why they are useful. You will also gain an appreciation of the key roles that accounting and finance play in business decision-making.

This easy-to-follow textbook examines widely-used accounting techniques, considers important international financial standards and contains a range of relevant, real-world examples, many of which are new to this edition. Activities and exercises frequently appear throughout the book and provide opportunities to engage with the issues raised.

Table of contents

  • Introduction to accounting and finance
  • PART ONE: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
  • Measuring and reporting financial position 
  • Measuring and reporting financial performance
  • Accounting for limited companies
  • Measuring and reporting cash flows
  • Analysing and interpreting financial statements
  • PART TWO: MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
  • The relevance and behaviour of costs 
  • Full costing
  • Budgeting
  • PART THREE: FINANCE
  • Making capital investment decisions
  • Financing a business
  • Managing working capital
  • Appendix A: Glossary of key terms
  • Appendix B: Solutions to self-assessment questions
  • Appendix C: Solutions to critical review questions
  • Appendix D: Solutions to selected exercises
  • Appendix E: Present value table
  • Index

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