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Essentials of Accounting (9th Edition) (Essentials of Accounting)
written by Robert N. Anthony, Leslie K. Breitner
Studio : Prentice Hall
by Prentice Hall
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Released : 2006-03-04
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780131496934
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 21 reviews)
List Price : $58.67
Our Price : $50.00
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This self-teaching introduction to financial accounting presents the ideas and terminology essential to gain an understanding of balance sheets and income statements. The fifth edition takes a careful step-by-step problem-solving approach in order to help readers master the basics. |
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So helpful |
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Even if I didn't have to read this for a class, I would recommend it to anyone. |
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NOT HAPPY |
WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE FACT THAT THIS WAS A WORKBOOK AND NO INDICATION AS TO THAT FACT. I WAS LOOKING FOR THE TEXT AND WHEN I RECEIVED THE BOOK IT WAS A WORKBOOK BUT THE DESCRIPTION SAID NOTHING TO THIS BEING A WORKBOOK
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excellent book for a beginner |
i have some accounting background
this book is excellent for review and also for those who don't have background. good written language (very easy to understand) and illustrates with good examples. you'll understand the basic accounting concepts within a very short time. |
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Missing the workbook and now I can't use it |
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The ad doesn't tell you that you need a workbook to be able to use this book. You can't even get through page 1 without having the workbook. Now I need it and can't find it anywhere. Bummed I spent so much money on it without having the entire set. |
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Excellent for a self-paced or crash course in introductory accounting |
Most of the other reviewers who have given this book 5 stars have it right. I first heard of this book by doing a Google search for the syllabi of accounting courses. This book appeared on the syllabus for an introductory acccounting course for the MBA program at Columbia University. I think the description of the course said that its purpose was to teach accounting to students with non-finance backgrounds (paraphrasing). That's what I needed so I became interested in the book. I read the other reviews on Americancivilwar and bought the book. From my experience, the 5-star reviewers turned out to be right.
This book is an introductory level accounting workbook (as opposed to a textbook). It teaches you accounting through exercises like fill-in-the-blanks. That might sound like grammar school, but that's the point. The book's title is exactly what you will get, the essentials of accounting, without all of the minutiae that make other books hundreds of pages long. And you will be prepared enough to follow along during the first few weeks of an introductory MBA course.
Nevertheless, if you already understand accounting and want to get into financial analysis (ie, valuation, forecasting, etc...), you're going to need a completely different book. I used two when I first started out: 1- Analysis for Financial Managment by Robert Higgins and 2- Finance for Managers by the Harvard Business Press. |
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