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Financial Accounting

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This good is very helpful, both graphically and technically. I does a great job of explaining everything in plain english and reenforcing those lesson with real world experience. The one complain i have is that there is no answer key so that I can verify my answer (after all, one slip up can effect every following financial document).

HEY LIBBY, LIBBY, AND SHORT! If you can hear me, quit trying to "force the readers to learn." If they want to cheat and not understand the material, then let them get fired from their jobs in five years for not knowing how to do their jobs. The rest of us hard working students are left scratching our heads, wondering if the work we did was correct. INCLUDE AN ANSWER KEY.

otherwise, it's great.

I used this book in a financial accounting course, and found it to be very useful. The examples make some concepts easier to understand, and the real life examples are good experience for students trying to make the connection between the classroom concepts and the real world. The questions at the end of each chapter are very thorough. My teacher would assign a dozen or so, and it would take a few hours to do them all. They have a good mix of short answer definitions, multiple choice, and general accounting problems that help you understand all of the concepts. There are also questions that use real world financial statements in the appendix. Overall the book is easy to understand for someone who is new to accounting. It would often clarify the concepts that I didn't quite understand in class. Key concepts are listed in the margins, which helps for tests.

This book is a great book for students who have accounting major. Students will learn some basic financial accounting concepts from the book. Also, this book applies some real life cases to help us to understand the concepts better. For example, people will see Delta's annual report or Papa John's balance sheet in the book. And these real cases make the book more interesting.

This was an excellent purchase, and shipped in plenty of time for me to use at school - thanks!

This was the exact book i need a great price and was shipped incredibly quickly!

This book is very easy to understand and simply reading and doing half the practice problems will give you a great understanding of the subject (assuming you have correct answers to check yourself with). This is not like some math book where you will get confused in the first chapter, 90% of the explanations make sense.

The book I ordered did not come with an online code so I could only access a few of the online questions (and some of the multiple choice answers were wrong). The authors should include answers but hopefully your professor will do that for you as mine did.

Be very careful of deceptive linking on this product! The record for the hardcover offers a paperback selection. After waiting over a week and a half for "Express" delivery while classes are going by, it turns out the paperback is the INTERNATIONAL EDITION . . . in PESOS, et al, rather than DOLLARS.
It's one thing to link to a different binding, but linking to a book with different content is an error on Amazon's part. Not only do we not have a usable book but I'm faced with making some sort of international return at what is expected to be the "buyer's expense."

This textbook was used in my introductory financial accounting course at the University of Florida, and I am planning on repurchasing it in the next few months as part of a comprehensive accounting review before starting an internship with a large professional services/accountancy firm. For a textbook, it is remarkably well-written and concise (and dare I say it...for people who enjoy accounting, enjoyable!); the real-world cases and international examples (i.e., international harmonization of standards as well as major divergences, such as the lack of LIFO in many countries) are highly relevant and help to establish a connection between the theory and real-world practices. There are more than enough practice problems to ensure mastery of the material that is covered, and as a person who is often frustrated at the abysmal lack of mention of ethics in many (if not most) business courses and texts, I was very pleased that this text provides numerous discussions of the irreducible necessity of highly ethical accounting in the post-Enron/Worldcom, Sox-driven and increasingly regulated world of the 21st century. Overall, this is a highly useful reference for those looking for a quick refresher of basic accounting and GAAP, as well as those learning financial accounting for the very first time.

It is really a great book in all respects. The chapters are well organized and online material along with book is great way to learn and grasp accounting concepts.
The exercises are very good and some answers are provided on line and I think is good enough to verify the answers.

I love the book and is fun to read.

This was a required reading for accounting 101 class at Wharton Business School. Sometimes the examples and concepts in boxes may distract you from the reading, but in general the fact that it was published this year, makes things in context.