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Warwick
ES979: Financial Analysis and Control
Systems (PTMSc)
(2014/15)
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Part Time MSc
21 items
Suggested Reading:
There are many books written about accounting, and accounting is a broad subject. Here
are a few suggestions as to some useful texts for this module.
Financial statement interpretation (3 items)
FT guide to using and interpreting company accounts - Wendy McKenzie, 2010
Book | recommended | Also available as a Hard Copy from Warwick Library
Interpreting company reports and accounts - Geoffrey S. Holmes, Alan Sugden, Paul Gee,
2008
Book | recommended | Also available as a Hard Copy from Warwick Library
Analyzing financial statements for non-specialists - Jim O'Hare, 2013
Book | recommended | Also available as a Hard Copy from Warwick Library
Accounting for non-accounting students (3 items)
Accounting and finance for non-specialists - Peter Atrill, E. J. McLaney, c2011
Book
Accounting for non-accounting students - J. R. Dyson, 2010
Book | recommended | Also available as a Hard Copy from Warwick Library
The power of accounting: what the numbers mean and how to use them - Larry Lewis,
2012
Book | recommended | Also available as a Hard Copy from Warwick Library
More technical financial accounting and reporting books (2 items)
International financial reporting and analysis - David Alexander, Anne Britton, Ann Jorissen,
Martin Hoogendoorn, Carien Van Mourik, 2014
Book | recommended
Financial accounting and reporting - Barry Elliott, Jamie Elliott, 2013
Book | recommended | Also available as a Hard Copy from Warwick Library
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More technical management accounting books (6 items)
Management control: theories, issues, and performance - Anthony J. Berry, Jane Broadbent,
David T. Otley, 2005
Book | recommended | Short Loan
Business planning and control: integrating accounting, strategy and people - Bruce Bowhill,
c2008
Book | recommended
Management and cost accounting - Alnoor Bhimani, Charles T. Horngren, 2008
Book | recommended
Management and cost accounting: student manual - Colin Drury, 2012
Book | recommended
Relevance lost: the rise and fall of management accounting - H. Thomas Johnson, Robert S.
Kaplan, 1987
Book | recommended
Management accounting and control systems: an organizational and sociological approach
- Norman B. Macintosh, Paolo Quattrone, 2010
Book | recommended
Further Reading (5 items)
The following are available as e-books through the university library:
Accounting for non-accountants: a manual for managers and students - Graham Mott,
2008
Book | further reading
Crash course in accounting and financial statement analysis - Matan Feldman, Arkady
Libman, 2007
Book | further reading
Accounting: an introduction - E. J. McLaney, Peter Atrill, 2010
Book | further reading
Accounting and finance for non-specialists - Peter Atrill, E. J. McLaney, c2011
Book | further reading
General Web Material (1 items)
Walther, L. (2012) Principles of accounting. [online] Available at
http://www.priciplesofaccounting.com/ is one of the best web based resources (although
being an American text, it often defines things slightly differently)
Material available generally on the internet is very mixed in quality. This applies to
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accounting and finance based material as much as it applies to everything else. Whilst
sites like Wikipedia and Investopedia can be good to get a basic understanding of the
subject, they should never be used as
academic references in an assignment or project.
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