If you need to understand accounting jargon and to interpret your company's financial reports and accounts Finance for Non-Financial Managers strips away the mystery from finance and accountancy and opens the door to financial understanding.

• : The purpose of accounting
• : Basic terminology
• : Accounting concepts and principles
• : The profit and loss account
• : The balance sheet
• : The cash flow statement
• : Ratio analysis
• : Users of financial information
• : The general ledger
• : Costing
• : Standard costing
• : Variance analysis
• : Two more costing issues
• : The audit of annual accounts
• : Tricks of the trade
• : Financial information for managers
• : Capital investment appraisal: experts only?
• : Activities of an accounts department
• : Cash flow management
• : Corporate financial planning
• : Personal finance: income tax and national insurance
• : Personal finance: investment
• : Personal finance: capital gains tax and others

Philip Ramsden BA, MBA, MA, FCMA has worked in accounting and systems development in various sectors of business. He has also written a number of financial books, including the first 4 editions of Teach Yourself Finance for non Financial Managers.