Accounting for Managers

This book was motivated by the author’s experience in teaching accounting at
postgraduate level (MBA and MSc) at Aston Business School and in-house training
provided for non-financial managers in many organizations to introduce them to
the use of financial tools and techniques.
My own education as an accountant was aimed at achieving professional recognition
and emphasized an uncritical acceptance of the tools and techniques that
I was taught. It was only after moving from financial to a general management
position in industry that I began to see the limitations and questionable assumptions
that underlay these tools and techniques. When I returned to study later in
my career, I was exposed for the first time to alternative paradigms from which to
view accounting. This book is therefore as much a result of my practical experience
as a producer and user of accounting information as it is a result of my teaching
and training experience.