Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities (Hardcover)

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"Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities,13e", by Wilson and Kattelus has been streamlined and will contain complete, accurate, and up-to-date coverage of all facets of accounting for governmental and not-for-profit organizations. Intended for readers concerned with the preparation and analysis of financial statements and auditing of governmental and non-profit entities, this text reflects all major changes to authoritative pronouncements from the GASB, FASB, FASAB, AICPA, GAO, and OMB that affect government and not-for-profit organizations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 745 pages
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill (January 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073100951
• ISBN-13: 978-0073100951
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #599,169 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Puke! This book is awful! :-(, April 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities with City of Smithville Package (Hardcover)

Please, no one buy this book... it will torture you like nothing else can. This book actually deserves -5 stars for how terribly written it is. The authors seem to repeat the same sentences in 5 or 6 different ways. It is poorly organized, it doesn't seem to have any real objective... a little bit of this here and a little bit of that there. Also, it is completely black and white with absolutely no pictures and very few illustrations... it will be of absolutely no help to a visual learner.

I needed this book for a governmental accounting course in college and when my bookstore wouldn't buy it back from me I wept tears. Luckily, my governmental accounting professor was really good otherwise there is no way I would have learned anything from this course. If you can possibly find some other book or maybe a newer edition would be better. The only somewhat helpful thing about this book was the City of Smithville project (CD-ROM) but even that had problems. It had a lot of technical difficulties and if you messed up an entry you pretty much had to start the project all over again. If you are doing City of Smithville, beware!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This Book is Horrible, June 17, 2006

By	J. A. Feldman "lalalandvisitor" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities w/ City of Smithville (Hardcover)

This book is poorly written. Unless you know Non-profit accounting, it is not written so that you will learn anything. I'm assuming professors use this book because of the Smithville case and for no other reason. Honestly, I do not feel the Smithville case goes along with the book very well. The authors should have exchanged notes a little more. Unless it is required or you are already working in non-profit accounting, I would not buy this book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Consider another book...., April 5, 2008

By	S. Rogers (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities with City of Smithville CD-ROM (Hardcover)

I do not like this book....it jumps and skips from chapter to chapter. Boring.....and I LOVE accounting.