Includes index.

Contents: Business finance: Introduction to business organisations and finance -- Starting a business -- The Growing business -- Large businesses -- The Role of accounting in business -- Financial accounting: The Balance sheet -- The Profit and loss account -- Adjustments to the profit and loss account and balance sheet -- Adjustments to the profit and loss account and balance sheet -- The Accounts of manufacturing businesses -- Cash flow -- Financial reporting by limited companies -- Understanding financial reports: analysis of trends -- Understanding financial reports: using accounting ratios -- Management accounting: Management and cost accounting information -- Costing -- Budgeting -- Standard costing, flexible budgeting and variance analysis -- Marginal costing for decision making -- Pricing -- Capital investment decisions.