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Accounting, Text and Cases (The Irwin Graduate Accounting Series)

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Generally a great text BUT some concepts are glossed over a bit quickly, e.g. Bonds, Adjusting entries. The problems at the end of the chapters are appropriately challenging but there are no answers. You gotta have answers somewhere, perhaps a web site. The print is too light and difficult to read with overhead lights.

Unless you go to Haaaaarvaaard (I always forget how many A's to put), you are probably going to be a bit perplexed by the content of this book.

The cases go WAY beyond what is covered in the Chapters, and its up to the instructor to try to fill in the gaps (hopefully your instructor realizes this).

I have found myself referring to my textbook from my intro accounting course more often than this book itself in order to grasp the concepts at hand. Seriously, this book is a punishment to anyone who has to buy it for school. And its FREAKIN heavy to haul around across campus.

'Nough said.

If you are looking for an introductory accounting book, this is not the one you want to buy. I am attending an accounting pre-course for an MBA and this is my official text-book. It's very lenghty and it makes concepts hard to understand. Sometimes you just wish the book would tell you what you need in plain english. In addition, there are no solution to the problems proposed at the end of each chapter. If you are getting them wrong, you wouldn't even know!

I used this book for my MBA and found it to be lengthy and dense. One would be lost if he has no basic accounting knowledge. I spent more time looking up other books in the book shop for my revision.

I am here at Amazon to find a decent supplementary Accounting text so I can survive this term and pass the exam. This text, offcially assigned for my MBA program, is hopeless. The language is opaque. Terminology varies from page to page. There are mistakes throughout (10th edition) that even students can spot. The examples are confusing. The graphs are unhelpful. It even makes T accounts look difficult!

The clearly-brilliant authors claim to have written this book for the USERS rather than the creators of financial statements. What they forget is that they already understand accounting. Students generally don't.

I enjoyed undergrad accounting and thought I understood the principles. Ten years later, it is very disappointing to be so confused by this unfortunate textbook.

I can see the point of several previous reviewers that certain additional details flesh out end of chapter case studies. However, I found the writing fresh, insightful, and pointed. Multiple end of chapter resources further illuminated chapter material in detail. In conjunction with a thorough professor, this book is an excellent tool for understanding accounting material.

This title is the most important one in my library when it comes to accounting. It really covers everything I need to know within the subject. No problems with understandability or annoying typos either. Recommended as a first buy.

Verbose and useless! The book says that the only way to learn accounting is to practice doing problems. It sucks at showing you how to do problems. It sucks worst at teaching you the concepts. No matter how many technical or engineering degrees you may have, this will make you feel stupid.

This book does not create a bridge between the chapter material and the problems/case studies at the end of the book. Very tough to learn the concepts in the book using the end of chapter material. No answers to questions, so no way to tell what the correct answer actually is. A good teaching aid for the authors of the book, but I do not recommend this for students or professors outside of the author's circles.

The text is incomplete and irrelevant. Often, an explanation of a concept is begun but it ends suddenly without the actual connection to its accounting treatment. Take "Precollected Revenues on page 54; pages 58-60: show (visual) the account entry along with the description. Learners need to see these accounting entries. It would help to add a few worked examples and model answers for the case studies set out at the end of chapters if this text is intended to be used as a teaching text or we will no longer use it.