Publisher's Synopsis
Update: March 2017 - the new Fourth Edition of this text is now available from Edify Limited. Students - please check which edition is required for your course before purchasing.
This book has been written primarily for accountancy students in their second year of study. It focuses on the practical aspects of intermediate financial accounting, complemented by a discussion of the underlying theory. This text is particularly suitable for students of the NZ Diploma in Business second level paper 601 Financial Accounting.
Each chapter provides
- Learning objectives
- Clear worked examples to illustrate methods
- Real-life examples drawn from New Zealand company information
- Chapter summaries
- A comprehensive set of questions and exercises to test the reader's grasp of the contents
Supplements
A CD included in the back of the book provides students with: additional questions, exercises and solutions; current articles on various topics included in the book, plus supplemental chapters covering:
- e-commerce
- trust accounting
- accounting for the primary sector
- accounting for insolvency for sole traders and partnerships (accounting for company liquidations and receiverships is still included as a chapter in the main text).
Instructor supplements are available free of charge to lecturers who adopt this text. These supplements include the solutions to end-of-chapter questions and exercises, and PowerPoint slides for each chapter.
