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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 657.3 EAN: 9780073011219 Edition: 7 ISBN: 0073011215 Label: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 736 Publication Date: November 15, 2005 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Studio: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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  - good priced used bookthe book was used, but it served the purpose for the class my husband took. Rating:  - Not Impressed.Over the last ten years, I've read and studied from a lot of textbooks, as I've earned an undergraduate degree, a master's, and a medical doctorate. Much of the material I've learned has been completely foreign so I've often had to rely on the quality of the text to help get me through. In short, I've studied from A LOT of textbooks in a range of subjects while in college, and this book is by far one of the most difficult I've ever utilized in an attempt to learn a new subject. It is extremely difficult to fluently read and the concepts are explained in terms that are much too complex, making the acquisition of information therein very difficult. I can research a topic on the web and its explanation is much easier to understand while still getting across the same point. What I find most frustrating; however, are the exercises and problems at the end of the chapters. More often than not, a workable methodology for their solutions cannot be found in the text or online on the supplemental "Homework Manager." Often, to answer a question I either go completely on what I THINK the answer might be or research it on the web, as this book in no way prepares one to thoroughly answer most of the questions. I'm finding myself getting decent grades on the assignments, but at the end of the day I have no idea what I'm doing or how to replicate my work from one week to the next because I'm arriving at my answers in such a piecemeal fashion, i.e. part of the solution online, part from the text, part from other students, and part from guesswork. Although the book's topics are basic to accounting, it is written in such a way that is not compatible to a student being introduced to the field. I have no idea why my school has chosen to utilize it but I would not recommend it to anyone, other than perhaps maybe an accountant or financial expert who is attempting to enhance their present knowledge level of the subject. Also, be leery of reviews that praise this book as I have a very hard time believing that anyone could enjoy it as much as a few of the other reviews have indicated. I gave it 2 stars simply because the book does appear to cover all of the essential topics in accounting. It's interesting that all of the three authors are professors, yet the book presents the material in a method that is WAY too complicated and doesn't facilitate learning to the degree it should. Perhaps in the authors' attempts to demonstrate their extensive abilities they overlooked a few essentials, such as the students' abilities and learning needs??? Rating:  - Wow...that was fast.Let's just say i was registered for a class on Friday that started on Monday and I got my book on Tuesday without paying an arm and a leg for expedited delivery. I'm really thankful for AMAZON :) Rating: - Nice book for beginnersThis book helped me to understand accounting in a simpler way though my background is engineering. Nice examples and explanations are written in simpler language that everybody can understand. Rating:  - Not impressedI was not impressed with this book. I found it long-winded and text-y. I was expecting an Accounting-for-non-accountants approach but I couldn't have been more wrong. The more I read this book, the more I wanted to buy another book-- Accounting for Dummies. Thank God for my instructor's supplementary materials for without those, I would truly be lost. Her presentations provide more concise, to-the-point information. If you are a non-accountant like me and you wish to understand accounting by your own terms, this is definitely not the book for you. Their exercises don't even have quick and available answers. |
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