Needles and Powers continue to help instructors stay on top of the change curve with Principles of Financial Accounting. Balanced, flexible content in this market-leading text is supported by an array of integrated print and technology supplements. Whether an instructor wants to present a user or procedural orientation, incorporate new instructional strategies, develop students' core skills and competencies, or integrate technology into the classroom, Principles of Financial Accounting provides a total solution, making it the natural choice for accounting instructors. The Tenth Edition focuses primarily on the use of accounting information in today's business world--beginning with sole proprietorships--and represents the most significant revision of the text to date. Content updates reflect current accounting and business practices, while greater attention is given to ethics, service enterprises, and international issues. In addition, the text features a more concise, accessible writing style; a new design to emphasize the user-oriented content; and enhanced technology components for both instructors and students. Accuracy reviewers check every line and work through each exercise in the text and supplements, making Principles of Financial Accounting the most accurate among similar texts on the market.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Exceptionally poor book.,
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Out of every crappy textbook, this one takes the cake. This material could certainly be condensed and better taught for a much lower price.
Half of the material is super-high level charts totally devoid of reason and theory and certainly not fit for a principles/foundational class. There are very few problems with answers provided -- as if to push for th sale of the lab guide. Problems are often obscenely easy or ridiculously complex and often chained together (problem 11 requires 10 which requires 9 which requires an hour of monotony). Half of the book is wasted on Supplements which are totally useless to the course. Some of the supplements were no more than free corporate year-end reports; and, many of them were useless real world facts: I distinctly remember reading a few pages about Boing, which takes 3 years to build a plan. The purpose of mentioning Boing was to highlight that an airplane manufacturer turns over less inventory than a grocery store. I also remember reading bold statements about internal controls -- suggesting things such as monitoring for employee theft and accounting for the occasional mail-theft. When reading this book, you'll have a hard time discerning where the filler stops and the content starts. Look, just avoid this book. Go for investopedia.com, better explanations, and it's free.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book, accessing online study tools problematic,
By bookluvr73 "mjsmommy" (Newport News, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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The book itself seems good but I was very disappointed when I received the book and discovered that the online study resources are not included with used books. When I purchased the book, I did not realize the books came with online resources. On the back cover, however, the book stated that access to these study tools could be purchased through the publisher's website. When I went to the website I was informed that Houghton Mifflin had been acquired by Cengage Learning. It took two weeks and three attempts to acquire the appropriate passkey to access the companion website. Today, after a third failed attempt to use the third passkey I had purchased, I contacted the Cengage technical department and was informed that they do not provide support for the website passkeys they sell at this time, so I was referred to Houghton-Mifflin's technical department. Cengage is the only place to purchase the passkeys at this time, but Houghton Mifflin still provides technical support. I wish they could have told me that two weeks ago. I had been sold the wrong passkey by Cengage but the error was quickly corrected by Houghton-Mifflin. The problem was fixed in less than 5 minutes. Everything is now working, so I am now giving the book 4 stars instead of my original 2, thanks to Houghton-Mifflin's quick and courteous assistance.
On a side note, from my experience, the McGraw-Hill online study resources are much easier to access and they offer a lot of good study tools, as well.
1.0 out of 5 stars
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I have never been more dissatisfied in a text book. $123 for a stack of paper?? It's a required text for my financial accounting class which is a requirement for my arts management major and the professor has already told us that we will be focusing on T-accounts. If any of you know anything about T-accounts already, then you could probably figure out that a $123 stack of paper is not required in order to understand their function. Especially not this book.
Thank you America for altering what is supposedly a university education into a money pit for those who are already swimming in it.
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