CPA Ready Comprehensive CPA Exam Review - 36th Edition 2007-2008: Business Environment & Concepts (Cpa Comprehensive Exam Review Business Environment ... Review. Business Environment and Concepts) [Paperback]

Nathan M. Bisk JD CPA (Author)

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About the Author

Nathan M. Bisk, JD, CPA (FL) is the founder and Chairman of Bisk Education, the parent company of Bisk CPA Review. Mr. Bisk is recognized as the leading expert in the nation on the CPA Exam and is well known as the dean of CPA Review. He is both an attorney and a CPA in the State of Florida, and since 1971 has written and taught CPA Review, accounting, auditing, taxation and business law programs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Bisk Education Inc.; 36th edition (December 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579615570
• ISBN-13: 978-1579615574
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,063,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nathan Bisk founded Bisk Education in 1971 and is responsible for directing the strategic activities of the business, including forming and communicating the vision of Bisk to its employees and driving the company's market focus. Mr. Bisk is a nationally known author of CPA Review, taxation, accounting and auditing programs and texts, as well as continuing education courses.

Additionally, he has pioneered the development and production of audio, video, multimedia and online continuing education. He was the first to provide distance education programs to CPAs. Expanding on his vision, Nathan Bisk then lead the company to become the nation's largest exclusive online facilitator of degree and certificate programs from the nation's leading universities, offering end-to-end, lifelong-learning solutions that allow working adults to reach their personal and professional goals through education.

Nathan Bisk served on the auditing staff of Ernst and Ernst (now Ernst & Young) and Arthur Andersen. In this capacity he was involved in auditing and taxation for corporate clients. Additionally, he was employed by Merrill Lynch and graduated from their two-year Executive Management Program. At Merrill Lynch he served in sales as well as a merger and acquisition specialist. Mr. Bisk has practiced law in Florida since 1973, with his practice focused on corporate and taxation matters. He previously served as Corporate Counsel to Bisk Education.

Mr. Bisk earned a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Franklin and Marshall College. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law. Mr. Bisk is both an attorney and CPA in the State of Florida. He is a member of the Florida Institute of CPAs, AICPA, American Association of Attorney-CPAs, Florida Bar and American Bar Association. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law School and the Board of Trustees at the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech). He serves on the Board of Overseers at the Nathan M. Bisk College of Business at Florida Tech which was named in his honor in 2009. This college is one of the largest private business colleges in the U.S. with approximately 5,000 students.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some mistakes in multiple-choice results, December 19, 2003

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This review is from: Business Environment & Concepts: Bisk Cpa Review (Cpa Comprehensive Exam Review Business Environment and Concepts) (Paperback)

Some mistakes in multiple-choice results. This book really needs to be corrected. Also they don't send free stimulation CD as they promised when we buy this book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Errors galore, July 7, 2004

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Terry Chen (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Business Environment & Concepts: Bisk Cpa Review (Cpa Comprehensive Exam Review Business Environment and Concepts) (Paperback)

Yes, this book was very poorly edited. All the new parts such as Economics have incorrect answers in the back. Very distracting when you're trying to hunker down and study. There's one part where the answer key actually says 3 + 4 = 5 . Which, if you were just glancing over the answers, would really throw you for a loop. But on a positive note, i passed the BEC section with an 82.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BISK BEC Book and Software, November 3, 2005

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Bryan C. Benjamin "Glad I'm done" (LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Environment & Concepts (CPA Exam Review) (Paperback)

I have serious issues with the quality of the BEC Review by Bisk. I have successfully used all four sections of Bisk's review, but I want to warn potential purchasers of the lack of quality in this volume. Sure, the BEC section is "new", but the editing was terrible on both the book and the software, simple mistakes as mentioned by the other posts. For the amount of money review materials cost - it should be mistake free. THE REAL PROBLEM THOUGH, is the lack of information in the IT section. They use AICPA developed questions for their practice sections, but fail to discuss nearly half of the answers in the text. I read the chapter two times before taking the practice questions, and had NO IDEA where some of the q's were getting pulled from. On the software, it has a link that says "click here for in depth solution." This takes you to the text where the answer is supposed to be found, many times, it was not there. Often times, impossible to infer the answer from the text as well. I would not waste money on Bisk's BEC section.