Interactive Intermediate Accounting: Version 1.0

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Summary: If you don't need it don't buy it!
Review: Having just finished the 1 year course as an undergraduate, one thing has become abundantly clear-this book sucks! The organization, writing and weight of the book could all be improved. There must be somewhere out there a better intermediate accounting book. I found that more often than not my instructors were telling me to ignore the methodology of the text. The text makes the material much more complex than need be.

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Summary: $100 down the drain
Review: I am taking this course independent study to help prepare for the CPA exam. The examples of problems within the chapter are too basic for the exercises at the end of the chapter. If someone is getting this book as a supplemental book for the CPA exam don't bother because it is a waste of money.

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Summary: This book is an outstanding reference source.
Review: I found many of my fellow students became frusterated with this book and the author. However, it appeared to me that it was the subject matter that was really frusterating them and not the author's style or methodology of presenting the subject matter. Accounting is a difficult subject for many students. Not everyone is cut out to be an accountant/CPA. Accounting is a subject that requires the student to acquire the knowledge in order to truely understand it. Just becoming familiar with the material will not suffice. I found several GAAP Guides to be very helpful supplements.

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Summary: Without a good professor don't buy this book
Review: I had to use this book for both parts of Intermediate accounting. This is the worst accounting books ever put on the shelve. What made it really bad was that the professor couldn't work out the solutions either! This book doesn't even have a glossary. If you don't have a GOOD PROFESSOR who is willing to help you understand this book then my advice to anyone out there is don't buy it.

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Summary: Looking at both sides of good and bad
Review: I think that this book is a good study guide. Only if you use an instructor led class. It is difficult but it is suppose to make you think. Right? Also, with the comment about the examples going the long way around the answer. To be a master at our profession, aren't we suppose to know every way? (Including difficult) I am only 21 and an undergraduate, and I liked the book (with an instructor led class to assist if I have problems.) It is not a good book to obtain if you are learning on your own. Not any answers in the back.

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Summary: Good book
Review: I think this book is very informative and lays out the material well. I think it should have solutions at the end of the text for odd-numbered problems, or perhaps offer a solutions manual.

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Summary: Only for CPA candidates
Review: I used this book for my two Intermediate Accounting classes and had some problems with it. Most chapters explain the concepts very well but the more complicated the topics get the less understandable the explanations are. The authors leave out important information (the chapter on Leases is very frustrating) and expect the students to read a chapter again and again to understand it. If you are not seriously interested in accounting, look for another book.

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Summary: Intermediate Accounting by Donald E. Kieso & Jerry J. Weygan
Review: I would like to use this book as a personal reference resource, but without the solutions to the chapter problems I am temped to return the text. Make The Solutions Available! Thank you...

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Summary: USC Accounting School
Review: I'm at the Leventhal school of accounting. This is the book we use in our intermediate accounting class. I found the Problem Solving survival guides that came with the book to be invaluable. This is an awesome accounting text.

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Summary: USC Accounting School
Review: I'm at the Leventhal school of accounting. This is the book we use in our intermediate accounting class. I found the Problem Solving survival guides that came with the book to be invaluable. This is an awesome accounting text.