This highly regarded manual provides a practical introduction to financial and management accounting, with particular reference to the requirements of Scottish solicitors. This second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout. Contents include: introduction to accountancy * recording financial information * simple accounting statements * accounting adjustments * bank reconciliations * introduction to partnership accounting * accounting for partnership changes * organization of business records in a legal firm * recording transactions in a solicitor's practice * introduction to corporate...

This is Louise's story. It is a journey through the years of her desperately trying to cope with raising and protecting two children in an unstable environment as they all learned to live with a major illness, her husband's bipolar disorder. It is a story of love, hope - and tragedy. "I picked up a stick and tossed it in the river watching it roll with the current until it became tangled in a clump of weeds. Eventually it broke free to carry on its journey. I thought about my own journey, caught in a tangle of emotions. Like the stick I wanted the river to take me far, far away. I wanted to...