Hi Janet,

I did the forerunner to B291 / B292 which used to be called B680.

My books are not for sale and even if they were you need the accompanying CD courses for them to make any sense. However I know the contents so can advise on alternate books that will give you the head start that you are looking for.

For B291 there is a lot of repetition with things that you have already studied in B190. However there is more padding out of the detail and it's looking at taking you from bookkeeping into basic accountancy.

A list of the books for the financial accounting part of B680 (now B291)

Record Keeping
Accounting in Context
Financial Statements I
Financial Statements II
Audit Theory, Practice and Ethics
Financial Analysis

A list of the books for the Management accounting part of B680 (now B292)

Accounting for Costs
Budgeting
Management Accounting in practice
Quantitative Methods
Decision making

There were another 5 books in B680 for which there is now no equivalent in B291 or B292.

To cover all the material in B291 buy :

AAT level 4 Financial Statements combined text and workbook (There's a version here that you can look inside : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Financial-Statements-Combined-Workbook-accounting/dp/0857322206/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310737312&sr=1-1)

For management accounting try :

Management and Cost accounting - Colin Drury (there's a version here that you can look inside : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Management-Cost-Accounting-Colin-Drury/dp/1844805662/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310737205&sr=8-1)

The advantage of doing it this way is that you will have a deeper understanding of the subject matter than just using the OU materials.

Good luck with the courses and hope that the avove books help.

kind regards,

Shaun.