<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: Lucid, intersting and easy to follow
Review: I am an engineer running a small company. Last year I bought an accounting package to keep better track of my business. Though the software is great the accompaning manuals are of no use and their concise introduction to accounting did make matters worse.I have been looking at several accounting manuals but could not find one I could just sit down with and read on my own. Well now I have found it. This manual is easy to read, clear and to the point and the real company examples make it interesting. After reading only two chapter I realized that the information that came with the accounting software put me totally on the wrong track. I can recommend this book, manual very highly.
Rating:
Summary: Very Useful
Review: i realize that a review of a textbook is somewhat of a moot point. after all, you have to buy the book that the professor tells you to buy. but, here it is anyway: the book was average in every sense of the word. the one thing i did not like about it was that it did not highlight every new word or phrase and define it. only about half of the new words or phrases were highlighted in a text box next to the paragraph. this means that if you were searching for a word or phrase, if it was not noted in the margin, then it was very difficult to find it. this is fairly typical of textbooks, so i figured it was average.
Rating:
Summary: Very Useful
Review: I used this study guide and received a 3.9 out of 4.0 in this class. This is a great study guide and I would recommend getting one as it will definitely improve your grades in a very important class.
Rating:
Summary: The Best
Review: The authors present the concept that Accounting is inherently interesting, yet the available textbooks are not. With this edition of Financial Accounting, they have done an excellent job of delivering a highly interesting, engaging and relevant text suitable for the serious student or the non-major. The most useful aspect of this book is its ability to assist the reader in "thinking like an accountant". Each chapter, presented in building-block style, teaches you how to view real-world companies from several financial viewpoints. There is an emphasis placed on financial reporting and the analysis of financial statements which are interesting and very relevant to the outside business world. The pace of the text is excellent and the pure accounting topics are interspersed with sidebars concerning ethics and international acccounting issues. Especially appealing was the fact that the subject companies in the text were highly recognizable and the authors included background information about each one. I found this much more effective than presenting the reports of imaginary enterprises. Whether you are an Accounting major or a non-major fulfilling a course requirement, you will find this text to be an interesting read and a valuable reference. Perhaps you will discover like I did, surprisingly, that Accounting IS inherently interesting.
Rating: 
Summary: Accounting Lite
Review: This text is more sizzle than steak. Appropriate, perhaps, for a survey class for non-accounting majors, but insufficient for the student pursuing accounting as a major. Let's face it, a large part of introductory accounting is drill and practice. The book skimps on these elements. The narrative is generally lively, and true to its billing the book is full of real-world examples for the chapter subjects. The text also has a very modern, splashy graphic design. The book does not have enough in the way of examples that teach the mechanics of journal entries, T-accounts and the like. This text, unfortunately, represents the trend of dumbing down our school books. An "A" for style, a "C+" for substance.
<< 1 >>
| 
