Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses
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Ideal for graduate, MBA, and higher-level undergraduate programs, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS, METHODS, AND USES presents both the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the terminology and methods that allows the reader to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements. Fully integrated with the latest International Financial Reporting Standards, inclusion of the latest developments on Fair Value Accounting,… More >>
Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses
The book was shipped very quickly and the shipper was very responsive to my questions about the product. Thanks for the great service!
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by Freddie Mac — January 15, 2010 @ 1:13 am
It is sealed brand new book with lower price than anywhere and fast deliverery. I am happy with it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by X. Li — January 15, 2010 @ 1:26 am
I ordered 3 books for my MBA and AMAZON managed to lose the package 2x. I will admit the prices were right and spot on. The orginal shipment was lost and I asked for a reshipment. That was sent and lost as well. I recieved the books 2x after both shipments were found. I was meet with excuses such as, I am sorry that person is not here it is the weekend or I am sorry we can not send you another shipment. I told them I did not lose the shipments they did. They did not seem to care. Also after the books finally came I recieved a phone call within 24 hours telling me to send them back or I will be charged. I told them they were lost and I only just got them. This did not seem to phase them.
I am not sure I will use Amazon ever again
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by G. Davis — January 15, 2010 @ 3:17 am
I just finished my Chicago MBA accounting class with this book-including the solutions manual. I found the book+manual easy to read and understand and I was able to self-teach through most of the problems.
My book+manual are up for sale if anyone is interested.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by Christian Astiz — January 15, 2010 @ 4:56 am
This textbook is written terribly. Each chapter seems to refer to multiple concepts, with little to no explanation of the concepts besides “We will cover that concept in X chapter”. Chapter 1 refers to nearly every other chapter, Chapter 2 refers to nearly every other chapter, (Including Chapter 1??) Chapter 3 refers to every other chapter, (Including chapters 1 and 2) etc etc. Each chapter seems to read like the introductory chapter. The content organization of the book makes me think the authors decided how to break each “topic” down, then wrote that topic while referring to the (not yet written) other “topic” sections. The “topics” then were assigned chapters based on how they thought information flow should go. The problem is, there is NO buildup of knowledge as every chapter reads like it *should* be the last chapter in the book since it assumes you know all of the other concepts it refers to in every other chapter. (Which of course you do not)
The book also, despite saying it will focus on only two companies in chapter 1, constantly jumps into different companies financial information. This seems to only confuse, not help understanding.
As other reviewers stated, the book does very little explaining, and mostly stating. I found the review which mentioned watching an expert accountant fly through the work they do daily and expecting you to understand it right on. To say this book is hard to pay attention to, and hard to comprehend is a drastic understatement.
This book is one of the most terrible MBA textbooks I’ve had. If it didn’t cost so much (and therefor be worth more to sell back) I’d burn it too.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by B. Downs — January 15, 2010 @ 7:37 am