Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 13th edition provides an excellent foundation for your future career in business, as it covers techniques widely used in financial accounting, management accounting, and financial management. Easy-to-read and use, the book is also filled with up-to-date examples of real-life financial issues.

1. Introduction to accounting and finance

1. Measuring and reporting financial position
2. Measuring and reporting financial performance
3. Accounting for limited companies
4. Measuring and reporting cash flows
5. Analysing and interpreting financial statements

1. The relevance and behaviour of costs
2. Full costing
3. Budgeting

1. Making capital investment decisions
2. Financing a business
3. Managing working capital

Appendix A: Solutions to self-assessment questions

Appendix B: Solutions to critical review questions

Appendix C: Solutions to multiple choice questions

Appendix D: Solutions to exercises

Appendix E: Present value table

"Highly recommended. The book comprehensively covers traditional and emerging concepts, simplifies complex financial topics, and provides practical examples, making it accessible for students without a finance background."

- Dr. Elmira Partovi, Senior Lecturer, Business and Law School, University of the West of England

"I recommend Accounting & Finance for Non-Specialists for its clear explanations and practical examples. It demystifies complex concepts, makes financial principles accessible, and is an invaluable read for non-specialists."

- Joan Ballantine, Professor of Accounting, Ulster University Business School

Familiarise yourself with the essential accounting and finance principles for business decision-making

Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 13th edition by Peter Atrill and Eddie McLaney is a highly accessible introduction to the principles and practice of accounting and finance, and is the gold standard textbook for anyone studying these subjects as part of a different course. You will explore the major financial statements, what they contain, and why they are useful in business, and will grow an appreciation of the key roles that accounting and finance play in business decision-making.

This easy-to-read textbook will allow you to study techniques widely used in financial accounting, management accounting, and financial management in a single text, laying the foundation for successful business decisions in your future career. It is filled with relevant, real-life examples, helping you understand the relationship between principles and practice and how accounting concepts impact the financial decisions of real businesses.

Key features:

• Make sense of real accounting issues with a greater number of real-world examples in this edition – including well-known businesses and organisations Hewlett-Packard, Aston Martin, WH Smith, ASOS, and Cineworld
• Test yourself as you go, with new multiple-choice questions, added to the end of each chapter along with other exercises that come in three difficulty levels
• Accessible and easy to read, now incorporating more diagrams to explain and reinforce key points
• Activities and exercises throughout the book help you engage with the issues raised and check your progress

Also available with MyLab Accounting

MyLab® is a flexible teaching and learning resource that combines trusted author content with quizzes and assessments, and self-study capabilities. MyLab Accounting for this book includes over 1500 auto-graded questions for students to attempt, and 17 videos explaining key concepts or working through problems.

Peter Atrill is a freelance academic and author who has worked with leading institutions in the UK, Europe and South-East Asia. As well as working as a business consultant, he was previously Head of Business and Management and Head of Accounting and Law at Plymouth Business School. 

Eddie McLaney is an academic author with many years' experience of teaching Accounting and Finance. He was formerly the Accounting Subject Group Leader and Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Plymouth Business School.

A clear introduction to the key principles of accounting & finance.

• Explains the roles of accounting and finance in business decision-making step-by-step, covering widely used techniques.
• Combines financial accounting, management accounting, and financial management.
• Focuses on decision-making to prepare your students for a career in business.

Provides relevant, real-life understanding of concepts

• Expanded with more Real World examples in this edition to help students make sense of real accounting issues
• Activities and exercises help students consolidate the main concepts, apply their learning and develop critical thinking.

User-friendly structure

• Learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter highlight the key areas.
• End-of-chapter summaries help students revise the topics.

"Highly recommended. The book comprehensively covers traditional and emerging concepts, simplifies complex financial topics, and provides practical examples, making it accessible for students without a finance background."

- Dr. Elmira Partovi, Senior Lecturer, Business and Law School, University of the West of England

"I recommend Accounting & Finance for Non-Specialists for its clear explanations and practical examples. It demystifies complex concepts, makes financial principles accessible, and is an invaluable read for non-specialists."

- Joan Ballantine, Professor of Accounting, Ulster University Business School

Up-to-date content coverage, reflecting the latest international rules relating to the main financial statements.

Arresting new scenarios as applied in updated, real-world examples, help students understand the business environment. These examples now include well-known businesses and organisations such as Hewlett-Packard, Aston Martin, WH Smith, ASOS, and Cineworld.

A new set of multiple-choice questions, added to the end of every chapter, will help students revise and check their understanding in their self-study time.

Revised activities integrated throughout the book provide excellent opportunities to test students' knowledge in core ideas, supporting the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills.