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Summary: Financial accounting
Review: Don't buy this book as a self-study guide to financial accounting. It is an excellent textbook for a course or, if you have already studied bookkeeping, it is the perfect book to show you how financial accounting information is useful for managerial and investment decisions. The real world emphasis provides a great context. The authors have struck a good balance between acccounting processes and the use of accounting information.The book is a good choice for an accounting course or the perfect next step for self-study after bookeeping but you'll be unhappy with it if you looking for an overly simplistic approach to accounting.
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Summary: Decent textbook, but terrible end of chapter problems
Review: For something as mechanical as accounting, this textbook does an ok job in teaching it, even though there are certain areas that it lack (good comprehensive examples, for one). However, the end of chapter problems are pretty bad. They'll ask you things that the book doesn't even mention until later on, and most the problems are extremely monotonous. (yes accounting is boring, but they can at least TRY make it a little more interesting). There are better intro to accounting text books out there
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Summary: Tour de force in accounting textbooks
Review: Had this as a textbook in my first financial accounting graduate course. Very well done. It actually covers A LOT for a one semester course. I have never seen so many exercises, example problems, and projects presented in one text book. The CD, plus web site, also offer more example problems. Be prepared to spend a LOT of time solving problems... which I think is the only way to really learn accounting. You'll love this textbook, but, be prepared to work hard and spend time.
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