Accounting (Accounting / Carl S. Warren) (Hardcover)

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Key Phrases: salaries expense, prepaid insurance, insurance expense, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fees Earned (more...)

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The most successful higher education text of all time keeps getting better. The authors adapt their proven approach to accounting's evolving role in business and use the preparation of financial statements as the framework for understanding what accounting is all about.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1150 pages
• Publisher: South-Western Educational Publishing; 020 edition (March 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324025424
• ISBN-13: 978-0324025422
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #529,150 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but need answers to questions, June 24, 2002

By	P. Smith (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

Pretty good text. Includes interesting real-world applications and easy-to-understand chapter layouts. The one gripe I have is that answers hould be provided to the questions at the end of each chapter (or should be available for purchase in a separate textbook). I have taken two accounting classes in which this book was used and in both classes the teacher had to xerox the answers out of his answer book for the entire class. I learned so much more this way. Rather than trying to figure them out on my own, I could see what the answer was and then figure out WHY.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Basic and to the point, March 25, 2003

By	M. Reyes "maddamg" (WY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This textbook makes accounting look easy compared to other accounting textbooks I have examined. It covers the basics of accounting and goes right to the point. It has many problems at the end of each chapter that's great for practice and review. It also provides a website you could go to for a quick review and practice quiz.

17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Student's viewpoint, March 21, 2002

By A Customer

The text is grossly overpriced...and the workbook is another $[money] (Typical prices at the beginning of the spring semester). Too much effort spent making the text look pretty with full color plates and lots of sidebars with colored backgrounds. Some definitions seem to be vague. As is typical of the text, the differences and similarities between such items as revenue journals, cash receipts journals and purchase journals are not clearly presented and it is left to the student to try to deduce the important differences.

More final answers to the problems should be provided--the details of arriving at the answer should, of course, be left to the student and the instructor. It is a fallacy to think that most students will just copy the answer and be on their way This instructor's experience is that students work far harder to find their mistakes in order to obtain a known correct answer. IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT TRUE LEARNING TAKES PLACE...