AS Accounting for AQA

ISBN: 978 1905777 143
Author(s): David Cox, Michael Fardon

Note: AS Accounting for AQA will be updated this year in line with AQA's latest policy for the use of International Accounting Standards terminology in examinations.

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For further information about these updates, please download the document below 'Note regarding IAS terminology'.This best-selling book contains: 

• a clearly written text with full explanations and diagrams
• numerous Worked Examples covering key areas of learning
• a wide range of activities and past AQA exam questions
• answers to selected questions, set out at the back of the book

We have created 20 free multiple choice quizzes to accompany the book - click here to access them.

Revised Chapters 17 and 18

Guide documents and templates

Second edition, published 2008, revised 2010.

Table of Contents:

Unit 1
Introduction to Financial Accounting

1. What is financial accounting?
2. Double-entry book-keeping: first principles
3. Double-entry book-keeping: further transactions
4. Business documents
5. Balancing accounts – the trial balance
6. Division of the ledger – the use of subsidiary books
7. The main cash book
8. Bank reconciliation statements
9. Introduction to final accounts
10. The general journal and correction of errors
11. Control accounts
12. Adjustments to final accounts

Unit 2
Financial and Management Accounting

13. Business organisations
14. Accounting concepts and stock valuation
15. Further aspects of final accounts
16. Preparing sole trader final accounts
17. Final accounts of limited companies
18. Ratio analysis
19. Budgeting and budgetary control
20. The impact of computer technology in accounting

Information and Resources

• Note regarding IAS terminology
• Corrections to text
• Sample Chapter: Budgeting and budgetary control