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Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 13th Edition
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#2 written by D. Prokofiev 1 year ago
Review by D. Prokofiev for Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 13th Edition
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I am an MBA student at Chicago. Read three first chapters, can’t understand why people have so much heat about it. The book seems to be good – although, a class instruction may be very helpful. -
#3 written by esther 1 year ago
Review by esther for Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 13th Edition
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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.
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#4 written by B. Downs 1 year ago
Review by B. Downs for Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 13th Edition
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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.
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#5 written by Dean B. Shaffer 1 year ago
Review by Dean B. Shaffer for Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 13th Edition
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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.
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Review by G. Davis for Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses, 13th Edition
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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