For Non Specialists Catherine Gowthorpe, Oxford Brookes University ISBN-13: 9781844802005 eISBN-13: 9781844808199 ISBN: 1844802000 eISBN: 184480819X MARC Record [.mrc format] Business Accounting and Finance for Non Specialists is aimed at non-specialist students of accounting and finance on a first course in the subject. It gives a lively and wide-ranging survey of the basic principles of finance, financial accounting and management accounting. The unique approach taken in the first Section of the book is to look at small to medium sized business organisations and their role in the economy - how they are set up, factors in their success and failure and how they source funds for expansion. This leads to discussion of the role of financial markets and their need for financial information. Sections 2 and 3 then give an account of financial and management accounting principles, respectively. The text is clearly written and technical jargon is ...