Free Accounting Books, Ebooks, Online Library

Free accounting books, ebooks, online library: basic accounting, principles of accounting, managerial and cost accounting, double entry bookkeeping, cash flow, venture capital.

Introduction to Accountancy
Accounting is the mechanism used to record activities and transactions that occur within a business. In its simplest terms, Accounting is the "language of business." However, in order to have an understandable record, a standard set of rules for accounting within the U.S. has been established. These rules are called the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and all U.S. businesses are expected to follow them.

The Accounting Cycle
This book is the first of seven books which introduces the basic principles of accounting. It introduces accounting, the fundamental accounting equation, and four core financial statements. Students will learn the basics of accounting, such as debits and credits, the journal, and trial balance, income measurement, revenue and expense recognition, and the reporting cycle.

Budgeting and Decision Making
In this book you will learn about planning for success through budgeting. Key budgets, such as the sales, production, direct materials purchases, direct labor, overhead, selling and administrative, and cash budgets are all discussed in detail.

International Financial Reporting
Marco Mongiello (Imperial College Business School) explains the informational value of an annual report under the IFRS. Topics as the Balance sheet, Income statement, Cash flow statement and Statement of changes in equity are explained.

Double Entry
Double Entry is the principle of accounting which requires that every transaction has two effects one of which is a debit and the other of which is a credit of the same amount. What this means is that the total of the Debits must always equal the total of the Credits.

Understanding Cash Flow
This ebook explaining the important of cash flow for your business. You can download the book in pdf format.

A Venture Capital for Small Business
This Aid discusses what venture capital firms look for when they analyze a company and its proposal for in-vestment, the kinds of conditions venture firms may require in financing agreements, and the various types of venture capital investors. It stresses the importance of formal financial planning as the first step to getting venture capital financing.

Using Accounting Information
In this book you learn about special financial reporting topics, financial statement analysis, and the statement of cash flows. Topics include discontinued operations, extraordinary items, changes in accounting methods, and other comprehensive income.

Managerial and Cost Accounting
This book introduces managerial accounting, with a primary focus on internal business reporting, decision making, planning, strategy, budgets, and cost control. Cost-volume-profit analysis, variable cost, fixed costs, mixed costs are introduced.

Real Life Accounting Free E-book
This E-book vividly illustrates how an individual can become seduced into starting a small business prematurely. All is not lost, however, as John goes on to describe the four major cornerstones from which to build a solid foundation for any new business. Those of you already in business will find this E-book an excellent review of your existing foundation.

Current Assets
This book is the second of seven books which introduces the basic principles of accounting, focusing primarily on liquid assets. It introduces enhanced income statements, sales, cash discounts, the control structure, and inventory accounting. Details concerning cash and highly-liquid investments, cash management, controls for cash receipts and disbursements, and bank account reconciliations are discussed. Accounts receivable, costs and benefits of selling on credit, considerations for uncollectible receivables, notes receivable and interest are also discussed. In addition, the fundamentals of inventory costing methods, inventory management, and ratio analysis are introduced.

Principles of Accounting
This principles of accounting website provides a free comprehensive textbook and learning center. Both financial accounting and managerial accounting topics are covered.

Accounting Fundamentals
A first-year course in accounting, with accepted principles of accounting arranged in an orderly fashion to capture the student's interest, to hold it, and to anticipate his difficulties so that unnecessary questions are avoided. You can read online or download this text book in pdf.

Long-Term Assets
This book focuses on investments intended to be held for greater than one year. It introduces accounting for investments (available for sale, trading, and held to maturity), as well as, special accounting for certain long-term investments.

Liabilities and Equity
This book introduces accounting for current liabilities, such as, notes payable, contingent liabilities, and employer responsibilities related to payroll. Long-term obligations are introduced relating to long-term notes, present and future values, annuities, and bonds.

Book-Keeping and Accounting for Small Business
A manual about double-entry book-keeping that anyone can follow. This online book is a useful source of advice for managing accounts, it is a compulsory reading for those starting a new business and for those already in the early stages.

Mastering Book-Keeping
This online book explains the principles of book-keeping, the bank reconciliation, extracting a trial balance, accruals and prepayments, accounting for VAT, setting up a Limited Company, etc.

Current Assets
This book is the second of seven books which introduces the basic principles of accounting, focusing primarily on liquid assets. It introduces enhanced income statements, sales, cash discounts, the control structure, and inventory accounting.

Strategic Financial Management
This free book reviews the subject within the context of current events. Each chapter contains Activities (with solutions) to test understanding at your own pace. Comprehensive, yet concise, the material is also presented logically as a guide to further study. First, the investment decision, which maximises net present value and shareholder wealth. Next, the finance decision, which allocates least-cost combinations of capital resources. Finally, the wealth decision, which examines how internal investment and financial decisions should be externally monitored by the market.

Principles of Accounting
Accounting approaches the world of economic transactions from the viewpoint of Capital Transformation. Accounting books record the source of the Capital and the form it takes after passing through a company's productive & administrative mechanism.

Financial Econometrics - With Eviews
The aim of this free textbook is to provide a step-by-step guide to financial econometrics using EViews 6.0 statistical package. It contains brief overviews of econometric concepts, models and data analysis techniques followed by empirical examples of how they can be implemented in EViews. This book is written as a compendium for undergraduate and graduate students in economics and finance. This book may be used as a textbook companion for graduate level courses in time series analysis, empirical finance and financial econometrics.