Accounting and Finance for Non-Accounting Students, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (November 20, 2025) © 2026

  • Ellie Franklin Middlesex University
  • John R. Dyson
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Title overview

Learn why accounting and finance matters and the key ideas in an easy-to-digest form

Accounting and Finance for Non-Accounting Students provides a clearly explained introduction to the key ideas of accounting and finance in the business world, and why these matter. Assuming you have no previous knowledge of the subject, this book uses clear, accessible language, and makes frequent connections to real-life finance issues to bring the subject to life.

This edition provides information in a bitesize way and uses everyday examples of finance decisions like spending on coffee, saving or investing, and the impact of those decisions on personal wealth, to help you grasp the essential concepts before exploring them in the context of companies later in the text. This innovative approach will help prepare you with a solid grounding in the fundamentals that you'll need for your university education and in your career.

Table of contents

  • Part 1 INTRODUCTION
  • My money and personal finance
  • Business finance and accounting
  • Part 2 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
  • Financial accounting foundations
  • Personal Wealth
  • Sole traders and partnerships
  • Small companies and year-end adjustments
  • Large companies (1): Legal structure, accounting rules, profit or loss
  • Large companies (2): Financial position, disclosures, audit
  • Cash flows
  • Governance and the annual report
  • Interpreting accounts: ratio analysis
  • Part 3 FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
  • Management accounting foundations
  • Direct costs
  • Indirect costs
  • Budgeting
  • Standard costing
  • Contribution analysis
  • Decision making
  • Capital investment
  • Appendices
  • Glossary
  • Index

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