Reading Lists for Management Science and Accounting and Finance

Due to quite a bit of demand, instead of PMing everyone that wants it, here u go:

This is what i got from warwick, my scanner is broken so im gonna summarise the intro., andwrte out the rest (yep im bored) :redface:

Introductory Reading List
BSc MANAGEMENT
BSc ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

(intro summary):suggestion NOT compulsary, nor will they be the set texts for first year, they suggest reading FT and The Economist to develop your understanding as well.

General

As an intoduction to taking lecture notes and studying for exams:

[INDENT]Nothedge, A. (1990) The good study guide, Open University Press[/INDENT]
[INDENT]ISBN: 0-74920-04-8[/INDENT]

Quantitive Methods of Analysis

[INDENT]Rowntree, D. (1991) Statistics Without Tears, Pelican[/INDENT] [INDENT]ISBN:0-14013-632-0[/INDENT]

For those without A-Level maths, or concerned about the mathematics content of the course:

[INDENT]Morris, C. and Thanassoulis E. (1994), Essential Mathematics: A Refreshers Course for Business and Social Studies ISBN: 0-33357-548-2[/INDENT]

Computer and Information Systems

Any general intoductory text to computers and how they work wil be of some value. A way of gaining up-to-date info is by reading computr mags like Which PC or PC World.

Although we do not expect any degree of computer competence when you begin the course, if you would like to become familiar with specific software packages before you arrive, we recommend the following:

[INDENT]Mc Clellan, A (Ed) (2000) Excel 2000 Essential Basic/Intermidiate/Advanced, Prentice Hall, (ie. three different books)[/INDENT]

Same as above but Access instead of Excel

Accouting and Finance

Recent legislation and changes in accounting practice make it difficult to choose a simle book in his area. For a broad managment-orientated introduction:

[INDENT]Parker, R. H. (1996) Understanding Company Financial Statements, Penguin[/INDENT]

[INDENT]BRETT, M. (2000) How toread financial Pages, (5th Ed,) Random House[/INDENT]

[INDENT]Holmes, Sugden and Gee (2002) Interpreting Company Records and Accounts (8th Ed) FT Prentice hall[/INDENT]

Foundatons of Organisational Behaviour

An introduction to this area can be found in:
[INDENT]Buchaan, D. & Huczynski, A., (2001) Organisational Behaviour: an Introductory Text (4t Ed.) Pentice Hall[/INDENT]

Economics
The titles suggested woul be useful preparation for first year modules:

General:
[INDENT]Begg D., Dornbusch R. and Fischer S. (2000) Economics (6th Ed), McGraw-Hll[/INDENT]

Macroeconomics:
[INDENT]Dornbusch R. and FIscher S. (1990) Macroeconomics (5th Ed). McGraw-Hill[/INDENT]

Microeconomics:
[INDENT]Estin S. and Laidler, D. (1994) Introduction to Microeconomics (4th Ed) Harvester[/INDENT]

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P.s. if letters are mssing here andthere, ignore it, the batteries on my keyboard are running low!sorry