A Fabulous book!!!
11/29/2005
I am currently taking an Accounting class with this book and I think it is great. It is easy to understand. It is very straight and to the point. It gives you plenty of real world examples from real companies and their financial reports (which makes it a lot more interesting than other Accounting books...) Also Amazon.com is great and I have always had great experiences with Amazon.com.
Not a bad book, but has a few problems
12/21/2005
My main problem with this book is that the text looks like a magazine, so often it's difficult to discern what is important versus what is trivial. In addition, in the first chapter the authors present all of the financial statements, which overwhelms some students. Finally, some topics are used before they are intoduced in detail.
Nonetheless, the book is excellent in many ways. If you carefully read the text of each chapter, you will get a good background in basic accounting. There are many problems at the end of the chapter, and the online materials are splendid. Use them to you advantage, read the book, and attend your class, and with hard work success is probable.