Financial Accounting With Fingraph Cd-rom Seventh Edition [Hardcover]

Belverd E., Jr. Needles (Author), Marian Powers (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0618093737 | ISBN-13: 978-0618093731 | Publication Date: August 30, 2000 | Edition: 7

The Media Enhanced Edition of Financial Accounting combines the respected authors, flexible and balanced approach, and content coverage and accuracy of the text's Ninth Edition with an increased emphasis on multimedia applications. The revised program more fully reflects current accounting and business practices with additional emphasis on issues of ethics, service enterprises, and globalization. The streamlined text features a new design to reduce clutter with an increased emphasis on how accounting information is used, along with a more robust technology program.

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"I would urge [our academic coordinator] to strongly look at this book, as having been changed significantly and positively since the last time he probably looked at it. I would also suggest it to colleagues at other schools, where the course was appropriate, if they asked me for ideas."

"Needles/Powers is the most readable comprehensive text on the market. Even poor readers can and do learn from the text. Most importantly, Needles/Powers allows the instructor flexibility in teaching style and material emphasis. Needles works well whether you teach from a preparer or user approach." --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Belverd E. Needles, Jr., received B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Texas Tech University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He teaches financial accounting, managerial accounting, and auditing at DePaul University, where he is an internationally recognized expert in international accounting and education. He has published in leading journals and is the author or editor of more than 20 books and monographs. His current research relates to international financial reporting, performance measurement, and corporate governance of high performance companies in the United States, Europe, India, and Australia. His textbooks are used throughout the world and have received many awards, including (in 2008) the McGuffey Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Active in many academic and professional organizations, he is currently Vice-President-Education-Elect of the American Accounting Association. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Texas Tech University, the Illinois CPA Society Outstanding Educator Award and its Life-Time Achievement Award, the Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Award of Merit from the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, the Ledger & Quill Award of Merit, and the Ledger & Quill Teaching Excellence Award. He was named Educator of the Year by the American Institute of CPAs, Accountant of the Year for Education by the national honorary society Beta Alpha Psi, and Outstanding International Accounting Educator by the American Accounting Association. He has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from DePaul University.

Marian Powers received the B.S. degree from Chicago State University and the Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, she has taught financial reporting at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Internationally recognized as a dynamic teacher in executive education, she specializes in teaching non-financial managers how to read and understand internal and external financial reports, including the impact of international financial reporting standards (IFRS). Dr. Powers's current research relates to international financial reporting, performance measurement, and corporate governance of high performance companies in the United States, Europe, India, and Australia. Her research has been published in leading journals. Dr. Powers's textbooks, coauthored with Belverd E. Needles, Jr., are used throughout the world and have received many awards, including the Textbook Excellence Award and the McGuffey Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. She has also coauthored three interactive multimedia software products. Dr. Powers currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the Board of the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois, and the Board of Governors of the Winnetka Community House. She is a member of the American Accounting Association, European Accounting Association, International Association of Accounting Education and Research, and Illinois CPA Society. She has served as Vice President Programs and Secretary of the Educational Foundation. She is a past national officer of the ASWA and past president of its Chicago chapter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company; 7 edition (August 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618093737
• ISBN-13: 978-0618093731
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,179,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent but not for the beginner, March 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Financial Accounting, Seventh Edition (Hardcover)

I used this Textbook in my MBA Financial Accounting course at DePaul Unversity in Chicago, IL. I had very little knowledge of the topic before I took this class.

This book is well written, well organized, and is not too wordy. Because of the depth of this book and its brevity, every sentence is important and I found I had to reread chapters about three times before I really understood the material.

I did notice a few minor typos in the chapter exercises, but for the most part I found it extremely accurate.

This is a difficult subject and this book covers much material. Each chapter must be read carefully. To fully understand the material, I highly encourage doing the exercises in the back of each chapter. Houghton Mifflin has the answer keys in Excel files on their web site, but you need a password to get it.

I can understand the person who found this book confusing. I don't think this book is great for somebody new to the subject. But after getting your feet wet in the subject, this is an excellent text.

This book will make a wonderful reference for years to come. In fact, my father, a small business owner wants my copy.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty darn good, but a bit overwhelming for the beginner., August 28, 2001

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Robert Drake (Waltham, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Financial Accounting, Seventh Edition (Hardcover)

I used this book for my Financial Accounting I course I took this past Spring working towards my Bachelors degree. This was in the first accounting course and I really didn't know too much about accounting beforehand. While the book overall is a good text and full of helpful information and examples, the first chapter or two were totally useless because they approached accounting pragmatically and tried to cover too many fundamentals too soon. Accounting is not an easy subject and theres no easy way to get started with it. However, my professor (who had used the book before) skipped over the first couple chapters and taught us the fundamentals using her own method which did work very well and then the rest of the book made more sense. At times it seems the book might cover a topic or circumstance in only one or two sentences and then will have a problem or two that deal more extensively with that short concept. The only reason I could think they did this was to stimulate creativity and learning and force the student to figure out how to mold the various principles to fit a particular "new" situation rather than just have you memorize some rules. Some might not like this method...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction to Accounting, April 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Financial Accounting, Seventh Edition (Hardcover)

I started out with practically no knowledge of accounting - this book did a very impressive job of introducing me to the various concepts. I can now read and understand the financial statements put out by the companies. Our professor used this book very extensively - he would talk about a topic and then point out the page numbers where the authors had written about that topic.
This is a pretty good reference too - I have refered to the book many times when I see certain accounting terms used in the press. The authors have kept the explanation very concise and have inserted examples that capture the essence of the explanation.
I found the book to be very expensive though.