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Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 13th Edition

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I dislike this book so much that I am taking time to write this review. I have taken many other courses in college and this is the worst book I have had to use. My managerial accounting book, written by Weygandt is much better detailed and shows you how to do the problems. This book is more qualitative and the questions and problems give me a headache. It is one thing that the questions and problems are hard (not a bad thing, a challenge can help learning), but that each question has many sections and has like 3 paragraphs of scenarios. I don't see how this is necessary, it just confuses me. I had a much easier time learning managerial accounting than cost accounting, which is the same exact material covered in this book.

As an Accounting student who has taken classes in Managerial and Financial Accounting this is without a doubt the worse Accounting textbook I've ever read. This book is extremely tedious and not to mention very boring, instead of going in depth with Accounting topics the book seems to have a very one dimensional quality as it only focuses on One Particular Company that manufactures "One Particular Item." Not only does that limit the ability to comprehend information, but it also affects how you're able to do some of the Homework questions given in the book. If you're doing a homework problem at the back of the book it'll take you at least 40 minutes per problem because of the ridiculous amount of detail the book asks for in each question, despite the fact they they never went in depth in their coverage of the concept but in coverage of some stupid Manufacturing company and how their Managers need to motivate their employees. A horrible Accounting book, not worth buying.

I have went through several accounting courses - intro to financial and managerial accounting, intermediate and advanced financial accounting, federal tax, auditing, and of course Cost Accounting. By far, this is THE worst book I have had in my major and the second worst in my college carrier. The book does not explain concepts very well and makes them more confusing than they really are. The author was so lazy that he didn't even bother to put decent graphics in there that would show the concept; except all you see are screen captured excel graphs.

THE BAD
-Boring - I love accounting, but reading this book was making me want to kill myself
-Poor explanations - the author does explain why things are the way they are. If you get an essay question on exam asking "explain why..." you will not do well after reading this book.
-Graphics - all you are going to see are excel charts and squares/triangles with different shades of orange and purple
-Homework - a good number homework problems are on material not covered or barely covered by the book
-MyAccouting Lab - makes you do double the work which gets frustrating because you can do a problem in 5 minutes yet this pathetic software has you spend at least 20 minutes on a problem.

I am extremely happy I have a phenomenal teacher who can explain the material 20 times better than this book. If I had to teach myself from this book, I would more than likely get a C or less. Fortunately I got an A.

Horrible book. Everyone in my class agrees including the teacher (the actg dept wants him to use it). Definitely not worth that much money - I suggest renting it because keeping it for future reference is pointless.

This book provides ample examples and analysis of crucial issues in managerial accounting and general managerial strategy. The writing is clear, and chapters are not drawn out for no reason.

This book is required of my cost accounting class at the University of Maryland. I have to say this is by far the worst text book I have ever had to read. It is so confusing, the wording and editing is terrible, and I don't suggest this for anyone. Even the format of the exhibits suck! This book might cause me to fail!

I will echo the opinions of my fellow students who have struggled to comprehend the format and content of this book. I think this book is a good indicator of how challenging teaching accounting can be. The general principles of accounting are simple, but the application requires incorporating a thousand little tidbits and factoids that are non-intuitive cruft developed over the course of 500 years. If I were an accounting teacher, my thought would be: teach the basics, then layer on the cruft as necessary.

This book takes the opposite approach, by putting you in the position of a manager actively doing cost accounting. This makes for a somewhat more exciting read, just like being thrown in the deep end of a pool is quite exciting until you drown, or working as an ER doctor without the benefit of medical school would be "exciting". As a technical manager who needs a basic understanding of cost accounting so they can ask intelligent questions, or think of effort in terms of cost, this book is bomb.

This textbook was terrible. Luckily, I have taken Managerial accounting in the past so I did not have to rely on this author's explanations of the material. The concepts are not explained well in this book and the problems are worded in such a way that you could argue that there are multiple correct answers. Avoid.

Considering cost accounting is a hard subject to begin with, I would think the authors would like to make the book easier to comprehend. Nope, not these people. This book was difficult to comprehend. Luckily I had a good enough teacher. He had simplier ways to work the problems, I would think the book would have showed the best and simplier way, nope. Their instrcutions were not great at all.

Just some wrinkles and somen highlights. As a second-used book, this is fine! I am in favor of this book!

I'm an accounting student and this was a required text book for my class. IMHO it's a terrible book, makes an already complicated subject much harder to understand. Reading it is a drag, it's so boring! Also, the examples are very complicated and the author does not explain it well, it's very easy to get lost. And finally, it does a very poor job at defining key terms and explaining key concepts, it basically lets you to figure it out on your own. Not a helpful book at all.