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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 657 EAN: 9780131496934 Edition: 9 ISBN: 013149693X Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: March 04, 2006 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall
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  - NOT HAPPYWAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE FACT THAT THIS WAS A WORKBOOK AND NO INDICATION AS TO THAT FACT. I WAS LOOKING FOR THE TEXT AND WHEN I RECEIVED THE BOOK IT WAS A WORKBOOK BUT THE DESCRIPTION SAID NOTHING TO THIS BEING A WORKBOOK Rating:  - excellent book for a beginneri have some accounting background this book is excellent for review and also for those who don't have background. good written language (very easy to understand) and illustrates with good examples. you'll understand the basic accounting concepts within a very short time. Rating: - Missing the workbook and now I can't use itThe ad doesn't tell you that you need a workbook to be able to use this book. You can't even get through page 1 without having the workbook. Now I need it and can't find it anywhere. Bummed I spent so much money on it without having the entire set. Rating: - Excellent for a self-paced or crash course in introductory accountingMost of the other reviewers who have given this book 5 stars have it right. I first heard of this book by doing a Google search for the syllabi of accounting courses. This book appeared on the syllabus for an introductory acccounting course for the MBA program at Columbia University. I think the description of the course said that its purpose was to teach accounting to students with non-finance backgrounds (paraphrasing). That's what I needed so I became interested in the book. I read the other reviews on Amazon and bought the book. From my experience, the 5-star reviewers turned out to be right. This book is an introductory level accounting workbook (as opposed to a textbook). It teaches you accounting through exercises like fill-in-the-blanks. That might sound like grammar school, but that's the point. The book's title is exactly what you will get, the essentials of accounting, without all of the minutiae that make other books hundreds of pages long. And you will be prepared enough to follow along during the first few weeks of an introductory MBA course. Nevertheless, if you already understand accounting and want to get into financial analysis (ie, valuation, forecasting, etc...), you're going to need a completely different book. I used two when I first started out: 1- Analysis for Financial Managment by Robert Higgins and 2- Finance for Managers by the Harvard Business Press. Rating: - great book- beware used copies though!Like most of the other reviewers, I have found this book an excellent, easy to use and clear introduction to accounting. I am studying for the CFA and needed an orientation to balance sheets as I dont have an accounting background. Other reviewers have mentioned the "workbook" format- I want to clearly point out that buying a used copy that has been marked by someone else may defeat the point! This isn't an ordinary textbook, it drills the points home by having the reader fill in blanks on every page. I was annoyed to buy a new copy at full price as I always bought college textbooks used, but am now glad I did. If you genuinely need to really understand these concepts, the "filling in" does help retain information. Also there are mentions of a "separate booklet" involving exhibits and practice tests, but in the 9th edition at least, everything is included in the one book so Im assuming it was previous editions that came with a separate section. |
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