Customer Reviews

Accounting

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The book does a good job of exploring the basics of accounting. It explains concepts by demonstrating the use of a manual accounting system. The examples are well thought out and easy to understand. Computerized accounting systems are discussed only briefly.

The Excel templates downloaded from the companion website are an excellent resource. They lead you through the preparation of various ledgers, forms and reports. The templates include validation of the user's entries, so you receive immediate feedback when something is entered wrong. If you use the templates to complete the exercises at the end of each chapter, you literally can't go wrong.

The table of contents is rather hard to read. It employs lots of different fonts and colors which make it difficult to find the chapter or topic you are looking for.

The actual book itself uses a lot of graphics, almost to the point where the pages themselves are too noisy. Nevertheless, many of the graphics are helpful and make up for the "graphic noise" on every page.

This book is not bad, but it has a couple primary faults. The 22nd edition was better. Much friendlier on the eyes as far as the boxes shown for the journal entries, and not so many distracting text boxes and margin notes about learning objectives. The discussion is generally ok but I found that my professors' lectures filled in many gaps of the textbook. In many ways it just seemed like this book was incomplete. The problems in the book are good but there is no solutions manual available to students, even for some of the exercises and problems. It sure would've helped if there was. Instead, they give partial answers in the margin for a few of the problems here and there.

Had to purchase new book, no way to contact seller. This book did not come with the code needed to work in Cengage.

This book was required for Accounting 1 and 2. It does a good job with difficult information. If you are trying to save money, also look at the publishers loose leaf books which can cost half of a hardcover bound book. They also have the advantage of you being able to only bring to class the part of the book you are working on, saving you significant weight in your backpack.

Overall, it is a great book for an introduction to basic accounting. My only complaint is I bought the Kindle edition of this book because it was cheaper than any other book I found and I thought I could access it on my Kindle and my Kindle for PC. Unfortunately, this book is not accessible on Kindle for PC and the book does not allow the search function on my Kindle. It is extremely hard to navigate through the book on my Kindle if I need to go back to a previous chapter.

After seeing the problems on my Kindle, I wish I would have spent the extra money and bought a physical edition of this book.

Textbook for an accounting class at school. Well used textbook if you use it well. Professor required this textbook so I bought it.

I received the book during the time that they said it would arrive! The book was a geat price also (because it was last years addition). Great service!

the product was in excellent, brand-new condition. it was exactly as described. the online access code given was not the code i thought i needed, but that was my mistake. check to make sure you are purchasing the correct access code! overall great transaction. fast shipping! i would do business again. thanks

I am very pleased with the book I recieved. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Thank you for the excellent service.

I purchased this book for a class that was occuring two days later, and I got it in the mail with time to spare! Unfortunately, I found out that I didn't need the class that I was enrolled in, so I ended up returning it. Other than my mistake, Amazon was amazing. Could not ask for better service!