Financial Accounting

• The unique narrative approach taken by the book contextualizes accounting concepts for students and this "allows for reference to be made back to earlier events, concepts or transactions with more meaning for the reader than a more formal text could achieve." (Skinner, 2010)

Readership: Financial Accounting is a comprehensive first-year financial accounting textbook suitable for students in both the CA and non-CA stream, typically as part of a B.Com or B.Acc at universities or a Diploma in Accounting at universities of technology.

Edited by Jacqui Kew, Edited by Alex Watson, and Edited by Riley Carpenter

1: Accounting in context
2: The purpose of accounting
3: The practice of accounting
4: The conceptual framework
5: Value added tax
6: Adjustments
7: Inventory
8: Bank reconciliation statements
9: Introducing credit: Trade payables
10: The other side of credit: Trade receivables and working capital management
11: Property, plant and equipment (PPE)
12: Companies
13: Partnerships, and a brief note on close corporations (CCs)
14: Statement of cash flows
15: Financial analysis
16: Non-profit organisations and club accounting
17: Incomplete records and other accounting issues
18: Integrating accounting into the business