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improve your book keeping step by step
apply your new skills
increase your confidence in preparing accounts

Book keeping is neither dull nor mysterious - its rules are logical and straightforward and are readily mastered by practice. Teach Yourself Book Keeping is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of book keeping and the practical skills of recording transactions, posting the ledgers and preparing final accounts. This book:

- explains the purpose and use of books of original entry as the basis of the double-entry system
- describes the processes of recording purchases, sales and cash transactions
- shows how these records are used to prepare the final accounts; the manufacturing, trading and profit and loss acounts and the balance sheet, to provide accurate financial statements
- explores petty cash, depreciation, partnership, company law, business documents and the effect of changes in IT.

Andrew Piper, co-author, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK

Andrew Lymer, co-author, is a lecturer in Financial Accounting, Computing and Taxation, at the University of Birmingham, UK