Basics of Accounting - Part 1: Bookkeeping and Financial Accounting

Basics of Accounting targets students in international business study programs. It covers the widely applied syllabus of Accounting at universities on bachelors and masters level. In this book, the application of the methods comes first. The Basics teach how to do Accounting by a case study based approach. All cases were taken from former exam papers at international universities and calculated completely and illustrated understandably. Bookkeeping and Financial Accounting covers the preparation of financial statements based on IFRS. Bookkeeping is taught as far as it is required for the understanding by managers more formal aspects about how to keep financial records are cut short to the minimum.

Prof. Dr. Carsten Berkau lehrt seit 1996 Controlling und Rechnungswesen an der Fachhochschule Osnabrück. Er hält zudem Accounting-Vorlesungen an ausländischen Hochschulen in Shanghai (China), Port Elizabeth und Grahamstown (Südafrika) sowie Seoul (Südkorea). Professor Berkau teaches Accounting and Management Accounting at the University of Applied Sciencen in Osnabrück and other Universities in South Africa, China and South Korea. Keabetswe S. Berkau graduated in business and management at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town majoring in Accounting. She has practical experience in Management and is native English speaker.