Basics of Accounting : Part 1: Bookkeeping and Financial Accounting

Basics of Accounting targets students in international business study programs. It covers the widely applied syllabus of Accounting at universities on bachelor's and master's level. In this book, the application of the methods comes first. The Basics teach how to do Accounting by a case study based approach. All cases were taken from former exam papers at international universities and calculated completely and illustrated understandably. Bookkeeping and Financial Accounting covers the preparation of financial statements based on IFRS. Bookkeeping is taught as far as it is required for the understanding by managers - more formal aspects about how to keep financial records are cut short to the minimum.