Financial Accounting 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 and financial 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. Section 2 then gives an account of