A unit of lectures and tutorials providing a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of financial accounting. The unit provides a detailed explanation of the double entry framework used to represent the activities and affairs of businesses/firms in monetary terms. The conventional rules to recognise and measure the financial effects of economic events are examined. Attention is given to the design and operation of procedures to record, store, control and summarise data in accounting systems. This unit is also taught in the Summer Semester period.