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Second Edition
By
Chris Guilding, Professor, Dept of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Included in series
Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism,
Description
For non-accountant hospitality managers, accounting and financial management is often perceived as an inaccessible part of the business,
yet understanding is crucial for success. Using an ?easy to read? style, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant
accounting information for managers. It demonstrates how to organise and analyse accounting data to help make informed decisions with
confidence.
With its highly practical approach, this book:
– Quickly develops the reader?s ability to adeptly use and interpret accounting
information to further organisational decision making and control – Demonstrates how an appropriate analysis of financial reports can
drive your business strategy forward from a well-informed base – Develops mastery of the key accounting concepts through financial decision
making cases that take a hospitality manager?s perspective on an issue – Sets financial problems in the context of a range of countries
and currencies – Includes two new chapters on internal control and performance management – Offers further resources at Textbooks.Elsevier.com
including a suite of worked contextualised cases in Tourism, Events and Sport Management
The all new companion website includes the
suite of contextualised examples,
PowerPoint lectures aligned to each chapter, solutions to all end-of-chapter
problems, a student revision
test bank and a password protected test bank
available to lecturers who adopt this book as required student reading. These
resources
are SCORM compliant and compatible with institutions? Learning
Management Systems.
Dr. Chris Guilding is professor of Hotel management
at Griffith University. He is a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has held
full time lecturing
positions in universities in Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand. His research interests concern accounting applications in the
hospitality sector and he has more than 40 refereed publications in a range of top journals that span the accounting, hospitality and
tourism management fields.
Audience
Level 1 or 2 undergraduates on Hospitality or Tourism Management degree and HND / diploma level students where finance and accounting
is a core subject.
Typical titles of courses that would adopt the book include: Hospitality Accounting, Hospitality Management Accounting,
Hospitality Finance, Tourism Accounting, Tourism and Hospitality Accounting, Financial Operations for Hospitality, Business Analysis
and Decision Making, Hospitality Cost Control, Hospitality Operations Management, Financial Analysis, etc.
Contents
Introduction; Analysing Transactions and Preparing Year End Financial Statements; Double Entry Accounting; Adjusting and Closing Entries;
Internal Control; Cost Management Issues; Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis; Budgeting and Responsibility Accounting; Flexible Budgeting and
Variance Analysis; Performance Measurement; Cost Information and Pricing; Working Capital Management; Investment Decision Making
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 360 pages, publication date: FEB-2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-85617-667-5
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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