Customer Reviews

Financial Accounting

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This book, actually two sold as one, has a ton of exercises, with NO useful answers--as though a ploy to force you to buy the study guide. On retrospect: buy the study guide if you hope to actually DO any exercises as part of your learning. (Note to autors: break this into the TWO books you know it is, and add the answers to the odd-numbered questions, eh?)

I just started taking MBA classes, and Financial Accounting is one of my foundation classes. Our professor insisted in using the outdated version, although the latest edition would be not so much off, from what I heard.

I am half way through the book at this time, and so far I can say that it is a very well written, easy to read and understandable textbook. The reader is systematically introduced to the essentials of Financial Accounting. Being an engineer, the whole area used to be somewhat a book with seven seals for me, which seemlessly opens up now chapter by chapter.

The manifold examples and question sections at the end of each chapter help a lot to strengthen the just acquired knowledge. With a grain of salt, though, the book itself does not provide any solutions to the questions and examples.
I presume the book is not intended for self studies, but it could very well be, if the solutions would be available. Thank goodness, those were provided to us by our professor, so I assume there should be a teacher's version or a separate solutions book out there.

As soon as I finish the class I might come back to add more.

For people who don't know any thing about accounting (like me) this the book for you. it starts with the basic concept then explane the more diffecult one in the rest of the book.
eventhough I didn't study all the book however what I have taken was great

I hate this book. Why? There is no way to check your answers to all of the problems. If they would have simply put the answers to every other problem in the back of the book, like most books do you could self educate yourself. There is alot of excellent information in the book and a lot of "try it" yourself type problems, but there is no way to check to see if you understood the concepts. This is not a book you could pick up and do the problems, and determine if you even got the answers right. If they would have gave me a way to check to see if I got the problems right, then I would have gave it a 4. I think there is some CD somewhere that has the answers but I couldn't find it. It didn't come with the book. Perhaps it comes with a new book. I bought it used.

This book is very useful for those who are in their beginning steps toward a business related degree. It's clear, concise, and has many real life applications that make reading it more interesting.

This is the textbook we were given for our Financial Accounting class in our MBA. So far, it's proven to be an excellent complement to the lectures, and even as a stand alone book, it contains enough information to guide you through the initial steps of financial statement generation and analysis. It definitely is very pricey, but it is a very good book. ...

This is the best introductory accounting book I've ever seen. I've been fortunate to attend the university where the authors teach, and have studied accounting under both Stice and Swain. The book is very clear, without the instructor's explanation (and the instructors are funny as heck and absolutely know the material) and I recommend it to anyone.

I read this book for a mid career formal introduction course to Financial Accounting. I found this book very simple and easy to read. Flow of information is great. There are some chapters related to financing activities and controls which can be improved.

This book was in better condition then expected, shipped quickly and arrived ontime. I will definitely order books from them again in the future and recommend them to friends & family.

This was a big mistake on my part.
Reasons:
1. Cant sell it back
2. Doesn't have page numbers so if you're teacher tells you your hw is to read pgs 303-330 you have no idea where that is.
3. Doesn't have chapters 15 or 16 of the book.
Hardback edition should be nice, get that instead