Reading list
Paper 1 - Interpretation of Financial Statements
M Pendlebury, R Groves
Company Accounts: Analysis, Interpretation and Understanding (5th Ed) 2001
Thomson Learning
(ISBN 1-86152-595-8)
G Holmes, A Sugden
Interpreting Company Reports and Accounts (7th Ed) 1999
Pearson
(ISBN 0-273-64615 x)
E McLavey, P Atrill
Accounting: An Introduction (2nd Ed) 2002
Prentice Hall
(ISBN 0-273-65550)
Paper 2 - Performance Management
The subject matter of this paper is drawn from management accounting and operations management. As a result there is no single text that adequately covers the whole syllabus. Various titles are recommended below with some comments to direct students to a text that will meet their need. Note that in all these texts students will have to be selective as they cover more than the Performance Management syllabus.
A.Atkinson & R.Kaplan
Advanced Management Accounting
Prentice Hall
Covers many of the accounting topics and some new managerial techniques also
D.Russell, A.Patel & G.Wilkinson-Riddle
Cost Accounting: an essential guide
Prentice Hall
Brief treatment of budgeting, standard costs and ABC
Colin Drury
Management Accounting for Business Decisions
Thomson Learning
Deals well with the calculations and detailed management accounting issues
P.Attrill and E.McLaney
Management Accounting for Non-Specialists
Prentice Hall
Basic overview of the management accounting material
S.Brown, R. Lamming, J.Bessant, P.Jones
Strategic Operations Management
Butterworth-Heinemann
Covers the non-accounting aspects in a concise and readable manner
L.J.Krajewski & L.P.Ritzman
Operations Management - Strategy and Analysis
Addison-Wesley
Covers the non-accounting aspects
Websites
www.oecd.org/daf/corporate-affairs
www.iia.org.uk/knowledge/archive
www.qcanet.co.uk
Wider reading is also desirable, particularly relevant articles in the Diploma
Newsletter.