Accounts Demystified: The Astonishingly Simple Guide To Accounting

This is the new edition of the bestselling guide to understanding and using business accounts and accounting principles, written in a way that even the financially nervous novice can easily absorb. Accounting is generally viewed as a highly technical and complex subject. However, accounts are actually based on simple principles. It's not company accounts that are complex, it's all too often the way that they are explained. 

In this simple and easy read book, the author guides you through all the major accounting concepts. Discover how to master company accounts, understand balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and cash flow systems. Learn to analyse and monitor your company's financial performance. Accounts Demystified is the definitive, user-friendly guide to the fundamental principles of accounting that no manager will want to be without.

In this 5th edition of the classic Accounts Demystified, Anthony Rice makes accounting astonishingly simple and pain-free.

'Trust me - no other book makes the subject as simple and clear. '

Jamie Reeve, Chairman, The Great Little Trading Company

Accounting principles are actually very simple: it’s the rules and terms to describe them that make it all so difficult. But once you’ve mastered the basics, what seemed so complicated before will become logical and even easy.

Accounts Demystified shows you how. In twelve simple sessions, designed as practical tutorials with worked examples, you’ll be taken right through the basics of accounting – balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, cash flow statements – to more sophisticated analysis and review. By the final session you’ll be fully equipped to tackle even the trickier aspects of accounting with new-found confidence.

Fully updated and now with an accompanying website, this bestselling book is for anyone who wants to be able to understand, digest and talk about numbers, quickly and easily.

For online learning, downloads and updates, go to www.accountsdemystified.com.