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Financial Accounting for Decision Makers, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (May 9, 2025) © 2025

  • Peter Atrill University of Plymouth Business School
  • Eddie McLaney

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Title overview

Introduce your students to the financial accounting principles and techniques that will help them develop the skills to make informed business decisions.

Financial Accounting for Decision Makers, 11th edition is an accessible introduction to the subject, focusing on the ways in which financial statements and information improve the quality of decision-making.

This latest edition includes updated real-world examples, showing the pressure on industries resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.

With its step-by-step approach, activities, and commentary from real company reports, this textbook will equip your students with the tools necessary to make successful financial decisions in their career.

Hallmark features of this title

A clear introduction to the key principles of financial accounting

  • Emphasises the role of financial accounting in business decision-making, giving students a wider perspective and preparing them for their future careers.
  • Stays focused on the fundamentals, providing an essential foundation, as well as step-by-step explanations of practical techniques that must be learned.
  • Supports your students with excellent pedagogical features that can be used as revision aids, including highlighted terms and chapter summaries.

Provides relevant, real-life understanding of key issues

  • Frequent 'real world' boxes help students make sense of real accounting issues and give discussion points for class teaching.
  • Helps students consolidate and apply their learning via activities and exercises, which also help to develop critical thinking.

"My many students and I have used this book for years now and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a very accessible introduction to financial reporting." – Dr. Andrew McFaull, Director of Undergraduate Studies, King's College London

"The best resource for educators teaching introductory financial accounting! The use of real-world scenarios makes the material intuitive and enjoyable for students and helps them stay engaged throughout the course." – Dr. Gulnaz Khamidullina, Lecturer in Accounting, The London School of Economics and Political Science

New and updated features of this title

  • Expanded and rewritten material reflects the latest developments and business practices including updated information on sustainability reporting, auditing and financial reporting, preparing students to engage with these areas in their careers.
  • Updated, real-world examples help students understand the business environment. These examples now include well-known businesses and organisations such as Manchester United, AstraZeneca, international retailer ASOS, BP, Ryanair and Next.
  • A new set of multiple-choice questions, added to the end of every chapter, will help students check their understanding as they study and revise.
  • Revised activities throughout the book provide excellent opportunities to test students' knowledge in core ideas and support the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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An accessible introduction to the subject from two highly regarded accounting authors, Financial Accounting for Decision Makers equips students with key principles and techniques with a focus on the ways in which financial statements and information can be used to improve the quality of decision making. Now with more end-of-chapter questions, the 11th edition is clear and easy to read, and features updated real world examples from business practice. The eTextbook is a practical, digital eBook format allowing many features not possible with previous editions:

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Features of MyLab® Accounting for the 13th Edition.

There are over 1500 exercises and questions of various forms in MyLab® that can be selected and assigned for quizzes, formative or summative work, helping you test your students' performance in a variety of different ways.

  • Teach your course your way: Integrate MyLab seamlessly into your virtual learning environment and create a course that fits your needs. MyLab gives you a great level of flexibility to build your own quizzes and assignments, direct self-study, track student performance, and more.
  • NEW! Dynamic Study Modules provide an adaptive experience, allowing students to try, learn where they went wrong, and retry.
  • NEW! New-look interactive homework assignments are available for you to use or adapt, each one containing short readings, videos showing walk-throughs of accounting problems, and exercises relating to the topic. Engagement with each element is tracked, allowing you to pick up any students falling behind.
  • EXPANDED: Between 60 and 80 additional algorithmic questions have been included to prevent cheating, so each student works on a numerical problem individual to them.
  • NEW! xx short explanatory videos covering key concepts in financial accounting can be viewed by students to help consolidate concepts learned in class. Videos have also been added in the incorrect answer feedback for students to review.
  • Case Studies in MyLab Accounting help students link theory with its application in real-world decision-making.
  • Accounting in Action: An extended scenario encourages your students to consider and apply accounting principles as part of a single narrative, providing business context to decisions they will need to make in the real world.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction to accounting
  2. Measuring and reporting financial position
  3. Measuring and reporting financial performance
  4. Accounting for limited companies (1)
  5. Accounting for limited companies (2)
  6. Measuring and reporting cash flows
  7. Recognising and reporting assets and liabilities
  8. Analysing and interpreting financial statements (1)
  9. Analysing and interpreting financial statements (2)
  10. Reporting the financial results of groups of companies
  11. Increasing the scope of financial reporting
  12. Governing a company

Author bios

Peter Atrill is a freelance academic and author who has worked with leading institutions in the UK, Europe and South-East Asia. As well as working as a business consultant, he was previously Head of Business and Management and Head of Accounting and Law at Plymouth Business School.

Eddie McLaney is an academic author with many years' experience of teaching Accounting and Finance. He was formerly the Accounting Subject Group Leader and Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Plymouth Business School.

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