Description

The essential learning of real-world accounting problems made simple.

Accounting for Non-Accounting Students, 10th edition offers everything non-specialist accounting students need, written in simple language. This edition includes up-to-date, real company reports and examples to help your students develop their understanding of the subject.

Features

Hallmark features of this title

A range of exciting features allows your students to practice and understand essential accounting concepts.

• The useful introductions at the outset of each chapter provide context and explain to non-accountants the importance of the chapter.
• Chapters conclude with?Check your Learning sections, with numerous quizzes and questions to help students periodically recap their learning.

Engaging content helps students link theory with practice.

• Comprehensive examples and Key Points sections help your students develop their critical thinking skills.
• Real-life and exciting business articles engage and encourage your students to cross the bridge between the classroom and real-life learning.
• The Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter are based on the News Clip articles to encourage homework and class discussion.

New to this Edition

‘Everything a non-specialist accounting student needs. This latest edition is comprehensive, well-structured, easy to follow and contains plenty of all-important practice questions plus additional online resources.'

David Gilding, Programme Director, Business Management, Lifelong Learning Centre, University of Leeds

New and updated features include business articles and examples from renowned companies.

• 70 new articles (in addition to the existing 80) have been included as News Clips, now featuring more businesses that students can immediately recognise
• Updated exciting business articles now include Tesla, Netflix, Asos, Tottenham Hotspur and Amazon, as well as Patisserie Valerie and Carillion
• Up-to-date financial information by companies your students can recognise and relate to, allowing them to better understand the company reports
• Updated glossary now includes definitions of nearly 100 key accounting concepts and terms

New features in some of the chapters include:

• Chapter 1?discusses personal finances and the usefulness of accounting to help students place the topic into a practical context
• Chapter 2?is updated and simplified to reflect recent regulatory changes, including references to the Conceptual Framework of Financial Reporting
• Chapter 7?includes improved explanations of areas of cash flow such as Statement of Cash Flows
• Chapters 11 & 20?offer refreshed content on Contemporary and Emerging Issues respectively

Table of Contents

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Simplified learning of real-world accounting problems

 

Accounting for Non-Accounting Students, 10^th Edition, by Dyson & Franklin provides real-life understanding of accounting by introducing you to the purpose and key ideas of financial and management accounting whether you have had little or no previous knowledge of the subject. This textbook is renowned for its clear and non-technical explanations of essential accounting techniques, in a language accessible to all. It helps you cross the bridge between classroom learning and real life, in order to improve your employment prospects when applying for jobs. The new inclusion of critical thinking questions related to the most recent news stories, along with contemporary examples and business articles, allows you to explore, in classroom discussions, themes that go beyond accounting techniques, and which require you to think and develop a personal opinion.

 

Make sense of real-world financial issues

• NEW – In this edition 80 articles have been included as News Clips and feature businesses that you will immediately recognise, giving this 10^th Edition greater relevance to students learning about real accounting issues.
• REVISED – Real company financial information means company reports are discussed in specifics rather than in the abstract. The use of the same company across examples provides continuity.

 

Enable critical thinking for enhanced employability outcomes

• NEW – Engage and cross the bridge from the classroom and real life using real-life exciting business articles – such as Tesla, Netflix, Asos, Tottenham Hotspur and Amazon, as well as Patisserie Valerie and Carillion. 
• NEW – At the end of each chapter Critical Thinking Questions based on News Clip articles have been added to use in class discussion or in homework to encourage students to form views on real world issues.  

 

Simplified learning approach

• NEW – To help you get familiar with the accounting terminology, this edition includes a glossary with definitions of nearly 100 key accounting concepts and terms.

 

Opportunities to take learning further

• A free to access Companion Website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/dyson provides a comprehensive range of student learning resources, including additional questions, and web links for further reading.

 

John R. Dyson was formerly Director of Studies of the Heriot-Watt University Management Programme, Edinburgh.

 

Ellie Franklin teaches at the Middlesex University Business School, and has worked for Barclays and Deloitte. She is a member of the British Accounting and Finance Association, where for a number of years she was a part of the Accounting Education Special Interest Group executive committee. .

 

 

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Author

John R. Dyson was formerly the Director of Studies of the Heriot-Watt University Management Programme, Edinburgh.

Ellie Franklin currently teaches at the Middlesex University Business School and has worked for Barclays and Deloitte (on financial services clients such as Visa, Lazards, Tullett Prebon and the UK Government's Export credit agency).

She is a fellow at the Higher Education Academy and a member of the British Accounting and Finance Association, where she was a part of the Accounting Education Special Interest Group executive committee for a number of years. She has been an invited speaker at several events at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Reader Review(s)

"Everything a non-specialist accounting student needs. This latest edition is comprehensive, well-structured, easy to follow and contains plenty of all-important practice questions plus additional online resources."

David Gilding, Programme Director, Business Management, Lifelong Learning Centre, University of Leeds