Accounting Principles, with CD, 6th Edition (Hardcover)

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Product Description

The most complete guide available to help professionals sharpen their accounting and business skills. This unique reference features a logically structured framework that details accounting practices step-by-step, as well as all the newest innovations in the field. This new edition includes a complete copy of the Land's End Annual Report, which the authors have integrated throughout the text.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1232 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 6 edition (March 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471382280
• ISBN-13: 978-0471382287
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #482,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Personal Education!, August 25, 2001

By	"auorchid" (Edinburg, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

I purchased this book because I wanted to learn more about accounting. I am finding very helpful. I find easy to read and like the examples that it has. I like all the exercises and problems it has at the end of each chapter, they help by allowing you to practice the new knowledge you have read in the chapter.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Book is just too hard to comprehend, December 30, 2002

By	Adam T Bartlett (Altus, AR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book has its high points. The exercises are to the point and easy to understand, but yet somewhat hard to do. However, the text has the problem many accounting books I have seen have, that is the fact it contains too many in-text examples and not enough to the point study points for someone who just needs to know the principals for quick and easy studying. If a course you are in requires this book you best go looking for an additional study manual for study help.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ok for some, not Ok for others..., July 14, 2003

By A Customer

I purchased this for school (of course) for a really speedy condensed course on Accounting. If you have a GOOD teacher that can explain this material in layman's terms PLUS use this book as an example, then this is a great book to reflect/study the lectures & do the excercises. I think a person COULD study this on their own but they must like to work out logic problems and have the patience to figure out what is wrong when the problems don't balance.
The CD program that makes spreadsheet that comes along with this is stupid. What a person can do on the program is limited(e.g. put in your own date, make transactions active...)BUT the GREAT THING ABOUT IT IS that you don't have to make pages of SPREADSHEETS. Punch in numbers and DONE! QUICK!
The tutorial CD made the steps of accounting easier to understand. Clear.

I was afraid of taking accounting because it sounded BORING but when I took this class and read the book, it became clear and easy (to me). The people that didn't get good grades were either not absorbing the material(boring attitude all the way!),practicing the problems(who has time to do that when you can go SURF), and didn't ask questions (who wants to hang at school?).
I think a person needs to take time to practice and absorb the material to actually figure it out.