Accounting -- What Do Numbers Mean: What Do Numbers Mean

Author: David Marshall
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Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This is not a typical accounting textbook, but rather a reader specifically written for non-accountants. Its outstanding feature is a unique perspective. The book approaches accounting from the viewpoint of its broad users—managers, administrative personnel, shareholders, etc.—with the purpose of: helping you understand "business language," comprehend accounting information, and read financial statements. Effectively using accounting tools to make more scientific decisions.
The style is concise. Compared to those bulky accounting textbooks that have become encyclopedic, this book condenses almost all of accounting into a short length, covering both financial accounting and management accounting. Therefore, it is highly favored by a wide range of non-accountants who need to grasp accounting knowledge. This book is suitable as a textbook for the following student groups in accounting: MBA students, MPA students, engineering, law, humanities and social science students, and accounting majors.
It is also suitable as a training textbook and self-study guide for the following working professionals: corporate and institutional managers, administrative personnel, general shareholders, and investors. Even though you are not a professional accountant, accounting as a field of knowledge may be a threshold you cannot avoid no matter how you try to bypass it.