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Accounting: Texts and Cases

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This book is terrible! This is not a good review for anybody who hasn't had any previous accounting experience. The text is not written in user-friendly wording. I had somebody who is an accountant look at this book and although they understood it, they said it wasn't written very well at all! I had to buy this for an Masters level "Introduction" to financial and managerial accounting class and I know that a lot of people in the class dropped the class because they were having such a hard time with the text. If you have accounting experience, you will probably not think this book is bad, but if you're like me and haven't, then you'll be in trouble. As a degreed engineer, I've had my fair share of experience reading non-friendly texts. This one is definitely up there as far as the "BOOK FROM HELL" category.

The information contained in this book is very complicated, and will lead you to faulty analysis and the wrong conclusions if not done incredibly carefully and slowly. These are not the methods that I use in my job as a professional finance manager; to apply many of these methods would not be cost effective due to the complexity. Be very careful with this information; this is written by teachers, not practitioners. I DO NOT recommend this for teachers or students. There are many other management accounting texts out there, and several of them are MUCH better for learning the methods actually applied in day to day business operations.

I would recommend this text for higher level accounting/financial analysis courses. There are many other books out there to dive into the exact nature of making journal entries etc. so don't think of this as an excellent beginner to intermediate stlye text.
The cases are excellent for those who will be making upper level decisions not the actual day to day transactions.

I had to read this book to prepare for the CMA exams. In college I had already been exposed to the topics covered in this book, but this book served as a very good refresher. All topics regarding accounting are covered.
If you want to learn about accounting, buy this book. It will be the best start you can get.

This is a very advanced begining accounting text used by Harvard University in its accounting courses. It combines both Financial and Management Accounting and it is extremely detailed. Their are no solutions in the tests for their very difficult problems and I have not found a study guide to accompany it thus far. Do not buy it if you are not familiar with accounting. This is a textbook.

This is not a book for a new person entering the accounting world. Maybe a CPA. The cases are very complicated and lead to lots of misunderstanding.

The book looks as new. It arrived in a box that perfectly protected it from damages during shipping. Service is super. Definitely will deal with this vendor again!

I had to purchase this textbook for my MBA Marketing class. I only referred to this a handful of times, but when I did it was fairly easy to read ad follow.

This is the single most terrible textbook I've ever worked with. If you are a professor looking to select a textbook for a class, please don't pick this one. It is written in a very inaccessible language, the concepts are presented in almost impossible to comprehend way, it is poorly organized (the fact that assets increase with debits and liabilities with credits is introduced few chapters later after the original introduction of the balance sheet). I got a very good grade in the class in which I used this textbook so my negative comment about the book is not driven by dissatisfaction with the grade or class.
If you are a student who has to buy this book for a class, please buy another accounting text that you will find accessible. Trust me, you will need to use it a lot.

I`d like that this book has all basics that you have to know in accounting. At the same time structure and material in this book are presented in a complicated way.