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Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Although extremely rigorous in definitions and concepts, definitely not the type of text book I would recommend for a MBA introductory accounting class. Steer clear.
The structure is confusing, and the way it has been presented made it even more confusing. Only positive note are the problems at the end of each chapter, which are challenging enough and offer a good preparation even for the toughest tests.
Previously, I had another intro accounting class in which Horngren/Harrison Financial Accounting Managerial was used. I have found this latter text book much clearer, to the point, concise.

This book is horrible. It does show you how to work the problems. It's full of high level explanation and no deep explanation of the concepts or the problems. It's poorly organized and super expensive. It does not contain answers to the odd problems in the back of the book like most (math type of books) text books tend to have. There is no study guide for this edition; the publisher's web site claims there exist, I have not found it there or anywhere else. However, a study guide does exist for the previous edition. There is a solutions manual that one has to purchase a key to access the anwers to the odd problems online. The solutions manual falls really too, because it just gives the answers and offers no explanation of the problems. I really need some kind of study guide that explains the problems in detail so that I can check myself. The book has a companion site that is a little helpful, it has one online quizzes, chapter summary and spreadsheets for each chapter.

Forced to use this text as a part of an MBA program, I found myself pouring over every paragraph without advancing my knowledge. Additionally, the book is riddled with errors, making it even harder to establish any trust between reader and author. If you too are forced to use this text, I hope you are better at finding external resources than was I. If you are using the text for self-study and have little or no background in accounting, I strongly urge to you to look elsewhere.

This book is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING to learn from. I wanted to punch the authors in the face after trying to read the chapters (useless) and doing the problems (impossible to do after learning nothing from reading the chapter).

very uncomfortable when reading, complicates concepts, ideas, and methods just to make them so far to be understandable. I know its an MBA kind of texts, but its just lack simpicity and up to the point kind of books. need a lot of modification. Honestly, I had an A- in Financial Accounting course, thanks to other books !!!

I absolutely HATE this textbook. It is poorly organized and does not "teach" accounting. It does provides plenty of examples, however with no instruction, one can merely muddle through them. Even with limited expectations considering the subject itself, the book is dull and nearly unreadable. If I could throw it away, I would.

Tried to save a few bucks and got the earlier edition but they changed the book significantly. There are chapters added and moved around combined topics. The book its self is rather good but don't get 12th edition in substitution for the 13th.

The author of this book doesn't know how to write in English!!!
This book is extremely frustrating to read and there are many run-on sentences that are confusing and don't make sense. I am getting an A in my Financial Accounting class but I still have a hard time understanding this book! not the accounting principles but the way is written!!
I will petition my professor to use another book in the future.

This is not the worst textbook, but not the best either. It was an average, slightly boring textbook.

This is a great introduction to accounting. It covers a tremendous amount of detail and is very thorough. My undergraduate work was done in Psychology and this book is helping to close the "gaps" that I have (in my MBA program).