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Schaum's Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting

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Just what I was looking for. College accounting was long ago and unused for many years. This book is a great one for dusting off the brain cells. It is well written, easy to understand, and even has T account diagrams. It's like college in the comfort of my own home. The exercises are to the point and provide ample worksheet space. Much better and certainly more affordable than many textbooks.

This well-written text closely tracks the content of "Survey of Accounting" and "College Accounting" textbooks and courses offered at many community and 4-year colleges. ("Principles of Accounting" courses are similar, but they contain more theory than the other two. This book is still good, but might need some supplements.) The exercises and problems are excellent, and the solutions appear right after them so it's easy to check your work. I would have given 5 stars if there were a few more memory aids and helpful hints to make learning the material even easier. But overall, very good and easy to follow.

I am very please with the content and the concise way the material is presented. It only took a few minutes to "grasp" basic accounting principles. The way the sample practice problems are laid out allow you to see "step-by-step" how the accounting cycle works. Very helpful and I would recommend it to anyone from beginner to those who just need a refresher.

This workbook is great! It takes the big picture of accounting and bookkeeping and places it into small bite sized chunks that build easily on each other.

This is the first book that has really made accounting click for me!

The text of this book itself is great. Buy it in the paperback version. A class I am taking requires Bookkeeping the Easy Way, a truly dated, confusing text. I read the sample pages of Schaum's Outline on Amazon's "Look Inside," saw how helpful it was, and then got cheated by buying the Kindle edition.

The Kindle format evidentially does not allow for tables and charts, so those are presented as embedded graphics, and this book has millions of them. These graphics are too small to read on my laptop, and vanishingly microscopic on my iPod. They can be enlarged on the iPod, which then requires tons of scrolling about the small display. When it becomes large enough to see, the resolution is too low to read easily.

Worse, the graphics are clipped just as small as possible, likely to create a smaller electronic file. The text is shorn hard to the edges, without any margin. The failed assumption appears to be that it would make no difference, since the white background of the graphics would match invisibly with the white background of the Kindle. This neglects that, on PC and iPod, Kindle reader can display black or beige backgrounds, which are important to those of us with visual impairments or folks who want to read at night. With the black background of the Reader app so tightly skimming the black text of the graphics, the display is nearly impossible to read.

Kindle is turning out to be a bit of a con. Sure, it's convenient for buyers and cheaper for publishers to distribute electronically, but with about a dozen Kindle books in my collection, not one is worth its money or even ready for distribution. Kindle books are riddled with spelling errors, improper hyphenation, and cheap-shot substitutes for proper tables. We would have been better off with something more like the plain text files of Project Guttenberg. At least those were honest about what they were. Amazon needs to proofread Kindle books, format them correctly, and enable all the features of the interface in every book. Until then, they are handy to buy, transport, and store, yet painfully unreadable, and so not worth their money.

Schaum's Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting (Schaum's Outline Series)

This book has helped me a lot in understand the bookkeeping & accounting process. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to understand this subject.