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| | Description | 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, and coverage of the Codification of US GAAP, this text provides the highest return on your financial accounting course investment | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Clyde P. Stickney | | Hardcover: | 960 pages | | Publisher: | South-Western College Pub | | Publication Date: | February 25, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0324651147 | | Product Length: | 11.02 inches | | Product Width: | 8.64 inches | | Product Height: | 1.33 inches | | Product Weight: | 4.59 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.9 inches | | Package Width: | 8.6 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 23 reviews |
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34 of 35 found the following review helpful:
 Just awful Nov 01, 2009
By Dean B. Shaffer
One of the least useful textbooks I've ever read; I learned next to nothing from it. It's very poorly written, in very confusing style. Samples are placed several pages away from where they are referred to. As another reviewer stated, the authors don't explain much of anything -- it's like watching an expert accountant quickly burn through his work, then ask you if you understood everything you saw him do. The problems aren't very enlightening, either: instead of focusing on building up the basics, they seem to prefer to focus on special cases, so you're thoroughly confused about what to do in the normal case.
Yes, there are good reviews, but notice that two are commenting only on shipping speed, and the other was from a guy trying to sell his copy. I won't inflict my copy on anyone else, because I'd rather destroy it.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Terrible book Jan 10, 2010
By B. Downs
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.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
worst text book ever Oct 10, 2009
By esther
"esther"
It is a very detail oriented book and you have to read every single sentence. Everything is stated, not much is explained. The reader gets lost in all the statements and tables. The probelms are annoying and like playing meaningless puzzles. One gets the feeling that the authors want to trick you rather than effectively teach the material.
I wish the authors would have explained all the concepts step by step, but they go over the material again and again in a spiral fashion. I find this approach rather confusing and would have hoped for a more gradual approach of logically building up knowledge.
If you are a detail oriented person you might like this book, but if you are a grand-picture thinker you get terribly lost. The storyline is missing.
I find this book one of the hardest books to follow. I can read general relativity books and solve Einstein's equations, but the way the material is presented here makes Einstein's work sound really easy.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Decent Book Jan 11, 2011
By bls
This is a decent book. It is mostly well written and full of practical examples. In fairness, if you are looking for a book that you can extract the material without reading the text (handbook style) than this isn't it. The authors organize the book in a unique way. They discuss financial reports in some detail and then reiterate the reports in individual chapters. At first it was frustratingly redundant; however, it was also an effective organization for thoroughly learning the material.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Not what I expected Oct 27, 2010
By Nreeky
I'm using this book during my MBA, it is a required lecture. I will put it very simple:
1.- It is confusing, the structure makes difficult to follow the examples which are located in several places.
2.- Very congested; I'm a visual learner and all the examples and solutions are narrated, not graphically described. like a, b, c.
3.- The solutions to the proposed excersices are not included in the book
4.- The paper used is shiny which causes glare when reading it, I have to find a good position when reading for a long time.
For me this was my first exposure to accounting, and I used this book only because my University charged the price and used it as the main text. I ended looking for other authors.
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