Böcker av Mustafa Abdellatif

"The Language of Business: How Accounting Tells Your Story" is a comprehensive guide to accounting that covers various aspects of financial management. The book introduces accounting as the process of recording, classifying, and summarizing financial transactions to provide useful information for decision-making. It explains different types of accounting, including financial, managerial, and cost accounting, and discusses accounting principles and concepts such as matching principle, accrual basis of accounting, conservatism, and consistency. The book delves into financial statements, starting with the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and statement of retained earnings. It also explains the accounting cycle, starting with recording transactions in journals and ending with preparing financial statements. The book explores accounting for assets, liabilities, and equity, financial analysis using ratios, cost accounting techniques such as cost-volume-profit analysis and job costing, budgeting and forecasting, managerial accounting tools such as breakeven analysis and balanced scorecards, ethics and professional responsibility in accounting, international accounting differences between IFRS and GAAP, and career opportunities in accounting. Overall, the book provides a clear and concise explanation of various accounting concepts that are essential for understanding financial management.