Customer Reviews

Principles of Financial Accounting

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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.

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.

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.

I made the mistake of purchasing the kindle version of this book. It didnt receive the update for page number translation and i didn't notice that it was ONLY the Financial part of accounting vs both managerial and financial. it is the same price as the hardcover book that have both sections and now i have to improvise for the second half of my accounting courses.
My confusion stems from the fact that i entered the provided ISBN from my instructor and this is what was found by Amazon. The cover authors and edition matched what my classmates have so i, in error, assumed this was the proper book. Dont make my mistake of you are taking both managerial and financial accounting.

Sellers were incredibly fast with shipping. Would totally buy my textbooks from thm or from amazon from now on.

I bought this book for around $50 in the book store at my school it is $139 used. I will never buy a book from my school again thank you so much! Also Ordered this on Thur. got it in by Monday it was awsome.

I did not realize how much cheaper the book was until I talked with my classmates about it. Amazon.com is a great place to buy textbook and I really appreciate it.

Great shipping time and price.

The book was in perfect condition

I have used this seller for many of my books. This time in particular I had signed for a class later than I normally do and needed the book fast. I got the book the morning class started....it only took two days. I was even more happy because I planned on just not having it the first day so didn't send a message to the seller asking for special treatment. To me this means they treat all of their customers as good as they would treat someone in need.

Thanks for the books, and I will be re ordering