Accounting and Financial Management for Residential Construction

Accounting and Financial Management for Residential Construction
Author: Emma Shinn
Publisher: Builderbooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Construction industry
ISBN: 9780867186352

Shinn provides detailed information on how an accounting system operates and the basic principles for processing financial data. This fifth edition includes the updated NAHB Chart of Accounts, and shows builders how to take control of their finances.

Cost Accounting and Financial Management for Construction Project Managers

Cost Accounting and Financial Management for Construction Project Managers
Author: Len Holm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351376942

Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engineers. Many textbooks on the market focus on the theoretical principles of accounting and finance required for head office staff like the chief financial officer (CFO) of a construction firm. This book's unique practical approach focuses on the activities of the construction management team, including the project manager, superintendent, project engineer, and jobsite cost engineers and cost accountants. In short, this book provides a seamless connection between cost accounting and construction project management from the construction management practitioner’s perspective. Following a complete accounting cycle, from the original estimate through cost controls to financial close-out, the book makes use of one commercial construction project case study throughout. It covers key topics like financial statements, ratios, cost control, earned value, equipment depreciation, cash flow, and pay requests. But unlike other texts, this book also covers additional financial responsibilities such as cost estimates, change orders, and project close-out. Also included are more advanced accounting and financial topics such as supply chain management, activity-based accounting, lean construction techniques, taxes, and the developer’s pro forma. Each chapter contains review questions and applied exercises and the book is supplemented with an eResource with instructor manual, estimates and schedules, further cases and figures from the book. This textbook is ideal for use in all cost accounting and financial management classes on both undergraduate and graduate level construction management or construction engineering programs.

Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector

Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector
Author: Gary Bandy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100084367X

The importance of public financial management for the health and wellbeing of citizens became dramatically apparent as governments sought to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Now, governments and other public sector organizations face the challenge of recovering from the pandemic whilst also seeking to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, with squeezed budgets and ever-increasing demands for public services. Public sector managers are confronted daily with targets and demands that are often set in confusing accounting and financial language. In Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector, Gary Bandy employs a clear and concise narrative to introduce the core concepts of public financial management to help those managers to deliver programmes, projects and services that are value for money. As the author puts it, managing public money is an art, not a science. This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, offering: a structure that is more clearly linked to the stages of the public financial management cycle greater coverage of transparency and accountability issues a broader view of public procurement to include goods, works and services and effective contract management; and an increased focus on public spending in the context of a post-COVID environment. With a glossary of terms to help managers understand and be understood by accountants, as well as learning objectives, discussion questions and exercises, this practical textbook will help students of public management and administration to understand the financial and accounting aspects of managing public services.

Construction Accounting & Financial Management

Construction Accounting & Financial Management
Author: Stephen Peterson
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1292054875

For all courses in construction accounting and construction finance, and for courses in engineering economics taught in construction management programs. This book helps construction professionals and construction management students master the principles of financial management, and adapt and apply them to the challenge of profitably managing construction companies. It integrates content that has traditionally been taught through separate accounting, finance, and engineering economics texts. Students learn how to account for a construction company’s financial resources; how to manage its costs, profits, and cash flows; how to evaluate different sources of funding a company’s cash needs; and how to quantitatively analyze financial decisions. Readers gain hands-on experience through 220 example problems and over 390 practice problems, many of them based on situations actually encountered by the author. This edition adds more than 100 new discussion questions, and presents financial equations and accounting transactions more visually to support more intuitive learning.

Accounting and Finance for Managers

Accounting and Finance for Managers
Author: Matt Bamber
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749469145

Accounting and Finance for Managers is specifically designed for the needs of MBA, EMBA and MA Business and Management students. It includes worked examples throughout the chapters, as well as real-world scenarios and full exercises at the end of each chapter. The book also includes 'Expert view' notes, which encourage students to think more broadly and present them with further issues to consider. For lecturers, the book begins with an indication of how the course material throughout the book might be divided over different time periods. Providing coverage of basic bookkeeping, readers will learn how to interpret financial statements and grasp underlying theory, interpret a cash budget and identify potential problems, identify appropriate pricing strategies to fit different markets and products/services and incorporate financial evaluation into operational decision making and problem solving. Online supporting resources for this book include bonus chapters covering topics such as cash flow, investment decisions and business planning, and lecture slides for each chapter.

Financial Management for Design Professionals

Financial Management for Design Professionals
Author: Steve Wintner
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781419583315

You don’t need to be a financial wizard to ensure the future success of your design firm! An accessible guide to financial management, Financial Management for Design Professionals is written for design firm principals who are responsible for their firm’s finances but have little or no financial management education or experience. For mid-career design professionals looking to advance their careers, the book is an indispensable reference and training guide. Using a simple, step-by-step format, this book shows design professionals how to: Develop an annual budget and profit plan Calculate the overhead rate for a firm Calculate the break-even rate and hourly billing rate for each employee Establish project fees Use readily available financial information in successful negotiation Design and interpret financial reports Plus: clear explanations of the fundamentals of financial management!

Accounting And Financial Management For I.T. Professionals

Accounting And Financial Management For I.T. Professionals
Author: Y.P. Singh
Publisher: New Age International Limited Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Accounting
ISBN: 9788122421538

The entire book is organised keeping into mind the need of I.T. professionals regarding business information and is based on MCA syllabus under U.P. Technical University and hence divided into three parts.Part I consists of basics of accounting and financial management followed by financial accounting. This part of book covers Unit I (Accounting and Final Accounts) of MCA syllabus under U.P. Technical University.Part II is devoted to management accounting, which covers ratio analysis of Unit III and basics of costing followed by Marginal costing and Inventory control system of Unit IV. Fund flow statement and standard costing are also covered in this part of the book to widen the scope of book-keeping into minds of undergraduate students of commerce stream. In this part, more thrust is given on management accounting, as management accounting is the analysis part of accounting as information system. The purpose of management accounting is to provide right information to right people at right time. Thus management accounting serves as vital source of data for management planning and controlling.Part III is devoted to Financial Management of Unit II followed by Capital Budgeting of Unit III of MCA syllabus under U.P. Technical University.Features: - Simple languagePoint-wise presentation Focus on diagrammatic presentation to help I.T. students in logic developments Designed keeping in view of non-commerce background students Large number of solved problems Also useful for BBA/B.Com students and non-finance executives

Accounting and Financial Management

Accounting and Financial Management
Author: Peter Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136431543

Accounting and Financial Management: developments in the international hospitality industry presents new and innovative research and developments in the field of accounting and financial management as it relates to the work of managing enterprises and organisations in the international hospitality industry. The content contains contributions from a rich source of international researchers, academics and practitioners including, university and college lecturers, professional accountants and consultants and senior managers involved in a wide range of teaching, scholarship, research, and consultancy in the hospitality industry worldwide. The material is drawn from their work and experience and relates directly to the management of hospitality undertakings. Therefore the up to date case studies and examples used are taken from a wide ranging of companies across the industry including large international chains such as Sheraton, Holiday Inn, and Intercontinental. Divided into three parts: Performance Management, Information Management and Asset Management the book tackles the following issues amongst others: * Performance management in the international hospitality industry * Benchmarking: measuring financial success * The profit planning framework * Making room rate pricing decisions * Hotel asset management UK and US perspectives * Lowering risk to enhance hospitality firm value Accounting and Financial Management: developments in the international hospitality industry presents current developments drawn from a combination of live fieldwork and practical experience and therefore will content will appeal to a wide-ranging readership including practising managers and financial controllers in hospitality organisations, professional accountants and consultants, postgraduate candidates studying for master's degrees in hospitality management, and final year undergraduate students of hospitality management who elect to take an accounting option.

Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector

Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector
Author: Gary Bandy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317659236

The impact of the global financial crisis on government funds has been significant, with squeezed budgets having to satisfy ever-increasing demands for public services. Managers working in the public sector are confronted daily with targets and demands that are often set in confusing accounting and financial language. In Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector, Gary Bandy employs a clear and concise narrative to introduce the core concepts of accounting and financial management in the public sector and how to deliver services that represent value for money. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, offering: an increased focus on post-crisis austerity more international examples of public financial management greater coverage of governance, accountability and risk management With a glossary of terms to help managers understand and be understood by accountants, as well as learning objectives, case studies and discussion questions, this practical textbook will help students of public management and administration to understand the financial and accounting aspects of managing public services.

Basics of Financial Management

Basics of Financial Management
Author: P. de Boer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Financial management
ISBN: 9789001701314

This introductory guide to financial management and accounting familiarizes students with the basics in these crucial areas. No prior knowledge of business economics is assumed. This book is user-friendly, accessible, yet comprehensive in its approach. It takes an in-depth, integrated look at the principles of management accounting, financial accounting and finance. Examples and case studies from newspapers and professional journals encourage the practical application of the material. Study questions reinforce and test the studentâe(tm)s understanding of the key concepts. A glossary of key terms is included at the end of each chapter. The book also contains multiple choice questions and other assignments designed to stimulate thinking about the topics that are discussed. The Basics of Financial Management is an ideal introductory textbook for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels in a wide range of degree and professional programmes, such as Economics, MBA, Business Studies, Finance and Management Studies.