Accounting is a system of gathering, analysing, recording, reporting, and interpreting financial information to make informed business decisions. The accounting discipline is continually changing in response to the external environment and is both stimulating and farreaching. Basic accounting for non-accountants is an introductory text covering financial accounting, cost and management accounting, and financial management.

Basic accounting for non-accountants teaches students financial literacy, a skill that will benefit them in both their personal and professional lives. It includes comprehensive illustrative examples that are easy to understand, with self-test questions and solutions to ensure that concepts are internalised before attempting the end-of-chapter exercises. Contents have been updated in accordance with the relevant accounting standards and accounting environment, and additional end-of-chapter exercises have been provided to ensure that students have sufficient practice to reinforce accounting concepts.

Financial Accounting: An Introduction offers CA stream students a strong conceptual framework in preparation for further studies in Accounting, while teaching non-CA stream students financial literacy, a skill that will benefit them in both their personal and professional lives.

Features:

• A concepts and context-based approach so students understand accounting principles.
• Best practice pedagogy to support students and lecturers and enhance pass rates.
• Practical worked examples and intertextual exercises to reinforce learning.
• Solutions to end-of-chapter questions on the Learning Zone.
• Emphasis throughout on the 'going concern' as the only underlying concept.

This book is focused on a broader approach for all assurance providers (including both internal and external auditors) and addresses various advanced concepts that assurance providers need an understanding of.

Bundle featuring Management and Cost Accounting (9781473773615) and Management and Cost Accounting Student Manual (9781473773622).

Management and Cost Accounting
For forty years, Colin Drury’s Management and Cost Accounting has successfully helped learners master the key concepts and processes of management and cost accounting. Now in its eleventh edition, the book retains its trademark clear and accessible style, covering everything students need to know for their management accounting career and exams. Every chapter has been updated to include an “Employability Skills” question, new review problems from accounting examination bodies and recent examples of well-known international organizations such as ACCA, CIMA and ATT. The new edition also includes introductions to emerging new technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things and AI.

Management and Cost Accounting Student Manual
The Student Manual is a practical companion to the corresponding 11th edition of Management and Cost Accounting, featuring a wealth of questions for each chapter topic which empower students to practise and reinforce key concepts of management and cost accounting. This eleventh edition has been comprehensively revised by Colin Drury's colleague and friend, Mike Tayles, in line with the author's plans and notes.

Fundamental Accounting presents basic, yet essential knowledge required for first-year Financial Accounting courses at universities and universities of technology. This ninth edition builds on the excellent foundations of previous editions, including updated legislative compliance chapters aligned to the Companies Act 71 of 2008 and IFRS updates to chapters and the questions that are affected by the discontinuation of cheques. These changes especially impact Chapter 11, but will also see smaller amendments in the other foundational chapter leading to the main chapter on cash transactions an updated chapter on the framework of accounting with exam-standard questions added, along with illustrative examples to guide your approach in answering questions.

This book’s easy-to-understand presentation of complex accounting concepts and principles, its logical, conceptual approach and numerous working examples make the content accessible and the study of Accounting less intimidating. Excel with Fundamental Accounting – your first step to success and a solid foundation for further studies in Accounting.

Key features:

• Comprehensive questions and fully demonstrated solutions at the end of every chapter. Many questions have been updated to account for the amendment in the VAT rate
• Over 500 questions, ranging from introductory to more complex levels
• Solutions to the questions in the textbook
• Theory-based concept tests for each chapter are made available to lecturers at prescribing institutions

Performance auditing can play a vital role in ensuring that taxpayers' money is spent economically, efficiently and effectively. Yet because it is difficult to explain its complexities to newcomers in the field in a way that makes sense the first time round, and because no two audits are identical, there is little practical guidance on the topic available in South Africa at present. Performance auditing: a step-by-step approach fills this gap. Performance auditing: A step-by-step approach focuses, step-by-step, on those elements that are relevant to all performance audits and can be applied easily and successfully. The second edition includes, among other things, a new section on strategic planning, additional illustrations of planning working papers on efficiency and economy, and updated terminology in line with that used in publications by the Presidency and the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa. The numerous practical examples and case studies in the book make it ideal for hands-on use as a training guide. Performance auditing is aimed at practitioners, trainers and students in auditing.

The purpose of this book is to set out the principles and conceptual issues of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

From an academic point of view, the publication targets second-year students in the professional accounting programmes at SAICA-accredited universities in South Africa.

This book covers the basics of cost and management accounting.

This book aims to meet the needs of those students that wish to understand and master the knowledge and skills needed to successfully complete their finance studies.

The primary aim of this book was to develop an essential and all-inclusive text that exposes students to all the fundamental concepts in the field of costing with a special emphasis on the following: Cost accumulation, Cost analysis and Cost control

Hierdie boek is geskryf met die doel om die basiese beginsels en toepassings van rekeningkunde meer verstaanbaar en bruikbaar te maak vir studente wat nie rekeningkunde as skoolvak geneem het nie en ook nie as hoofvak gaan neem nie.

The Guide to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for Small and Medium Entities (SMEs) has been written to provide an easy-to-read-and-apply practical guide for both practitioners and students of accounting. The textbook combines theoretical aspects and the practical application of financial reporting. It includes numerous illustrative examples and breaks down complicated International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for SMEs to facilitate an easy-to-use-and-apply guide for the small and medium-sized entities.

Financial Accounting: The Question Book 5e accompanies the fifth edition of Financial Accounting: An Introduction. The Question Book is aimed at first-year students of financial accounting at universities and universities of technology and is suitable for CA stream as well as non-CA students.

The third edition of this highly successful public financial management text is written by a team of authors with extensive expertise and international exposure, both academically and professionally: J Pauw, G van der Linde, D Fourie and C Visser.

This handbook for practitioners focuses on developing public financial management skills within a framework of information on financial legislation, structures and technologies in the public sector.

It includes the latest developments on the South African public financial system, including new content on the role of the Public Protector, updated legislation and a series of features to contextualise key topics in public financial management.

This text is intended for public-sector managers and students, and encourages a reflective, critical and practical approach to public financial management. Students and managers have much to gain from this new edition.

This book has been compiled to assist students at tertiary institutions in South Africa with their studies in auditing.

This book of questions, exercises and problems has been prepared to accompany the textbook, A Concepts-Based Introduction to Financial Accounting by David Kolitz. It has corresponding chapters for ease of reference.

Questions, exercises and problems in Financial Accounting can also be used independently of the Kolitz text as a Tutorial tool for financial accounting courses at a tertiary level.

Each chapter is divided into a selection of questions, exercises and problems.

• The questions are multiple choice and ensure understanding of a topic before moving on to the exercises and problems.
• The exercises are generally shorter and less complex than the problems, and can be used to develop proficiency in a topic where students are expected to reach the standard of the problems. Where the level of the course dictates, the exercises can be used instead of the problems.
• The problems are longer and more complex in nature, requiring an in-depth understanding of the topic.
• In addition, there are three revision sets (after chapters 10, 16 and 23) which provide comprehensive coverage of material covered in earlier chapters. These are also excellent exam preparation material.

The book and accompanying solutions are up-to-date with the requirements of the 2018 Conceptual Framework as well as the latest requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards.

An easy-to-read, integrated approach to accounting and finance which dispels much of the mystique surrounding these subjects for students and non-financial managers. This edition incorporates changes in legislation and in attitudes towards financial analysis, the interpretation of annual accounts and the use of financial ratios, as well as chapters on the financial planning process, the cost of capital and risk analysis.

The third edition of Cost and Management Accounting: Operations and management is a southern African text, which supports the latest curriculum offered by the major accounting professional bodies and higher education institutions. Its carefully developed pedagogical approach, offering a balance between the technical and the conceptual, combined with its focus on the requirements of professional bodies, gives students a solid exposure to the cost and management accounting profession. Retaining its student-friendly writing style and practical approach, it is the ideal text for students who are studying cost and management accounting across a variety of levels, from introductory through to advanced, undergraduate and postgraduate. It will help students understand the more complex areas of cost and management accounting and simplifies the learning process.

Assurance, risk and governance: An international perspective provides a comprehensive reference for students of assurance practices and practitioners.

The book explains the technical functioning of assurance processes at an advanced level using a principles-based approach aligned with International Standards on Auditing.

This is complemented by a review of the leading academic research to provide readers with an easy-to-understand overview of the latest developments in external audit and related assurance services.

The book is divided into two volumes.

Volume 1 deals with the concepts, principles and procedures of financial accounting. Volume 2 (suitable for NQF level 6) deals with accounting for partnerships, close corporations, branches and manufacturing entities.

'n Inleidende werk wat die grondslag vestig vir eerstejaar studente.

Information Systems In A Business Environment is an introduction to the theory of computerised information systems as seen from a business perspective.