Accounting for Dummies

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Summary: Have no fear...Accounting For Dummies is here!
Review: Are you frustrated by confusing financial reports? Have you acquired a million dollar budget to manage but don't know where to begin? Would you like to start your own business but are intimidated by the bookkeeping involved? Don't stress!

Whether you're a seasoned manager, a first-time investor, or a small business owner, you need a grasp of basic accounting when making crucial business decisions. With "Accounting For Dummies™" at your fingertips, you'll find expert techniques and advice, so you'll be crunching numbers and maintaining budgets with ease!

By reading "Accounting For Dummies™", you'll discover how to: *Understand income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow *Identify the financial strength and weaknesses of your business *Make wise financial decisions that will keep your investors, creditors and managers satisfied *Survive an audit and use the results to improve your current accounting system.

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Summary: Good book, but it was hard to understand.
Review: I found it very difficult to understand as I am an idiot, but the different colored grey boxes displaying "Quick information" led me away from the body of the text and created confusion for myself.

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Summary: this seems to be another great success by the dummies series
Review: I have not read the book but I am familiar with the series. To me it seems to be a very good book. My advice: do not listen to those who give this book a low rating

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Summary: Rated it One Star Because There Was Nothing Lower
Review: I was looking for a serious treatment of a very important subject and found the book trivial and very shallow. Sure there are cartoons, but if one wanted a cartoon book there are many more that are much better.

The whole Dummies series has gotten out of hand. They ought to team up with More Turkey Soup to be Spoon Fed by Dummies. Perhaps the series should be called Dummies Books by Dummies.

There are many better books about accounting than this.

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Summary: Not for people who want to learn how to crunch some numbers.
Review: If you are looking for a book that actually gives you good examples that will teach you to crunch some numbers on your own and prepare accounting statements and such, then this is NOT the book for you. It has a lot of writing about the different areas of accounting, but it did little for me. I was looking for a book that gave me real life examples that could help me understand how to do minimal accounting for my smal business. Some of the other introduction to accounting books are much better in this regard.

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Summary: Adequate as a non-accountants' everyday reference
Review: The content is simple with material presented in the usual 'dummie' tradition. It works great as a quick way to understand hard concepts, without going into too much distracting detail. A good reference for people who interface with accountants or accounting departments, but accounting students will find that the material is not detailed enough for cases covered in a typical accounting course. Is it the 'feel good accounting book of the year?' I dunno...but like any other dummies book, buy it for the funny cartoons.

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Summary: Not for you if your looking for a bookkeeping treatise.
Review: This book is great (I mean great) if you need to understand what is profit, whats in a balance sheet, how to understand it, whats in an income statement. What are assets, etc, etc. This book will open your eyes. Like others have said its not about double entry bookkeeping, or how to prepare your balance sheet. Find that elsewhere. This book addresses what the numbers mean and how to follow them to come to conclusions and how to use that information.

Let me put it this way. If you have a small business, or are put into a position where you need to manage money for a business, or need to buy a business. This book will help you if your not accountant savy.

Its a great book, and is very well written. Another five star success for the dummies series.

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Summary: Very Good book for Financial and Mangerial Accounting
Review: This book is quite disappointing, and I (someone with no accounting background) find it boring and too easy--the manual for an accounting software seems more exciting than this. I feel there is little about accounting in this book; rather, I find a huge section praising what accountants do. I think if numbers give you a headache and you abhor math, you may consider laboring through this book. Otherwise, try something else.

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Summary: not so exciting
Review: This book is quite disappointing, and I (someone with no accounting background) find it boring and too easy--the manual for an accounting software seems more exciting than this. I feel there is little about accounting in this book; rather, I find a huge section praising what accountants do. I think if numbers give you a headache and you abhor math, you may consider laboring through this book. Otherwise, try something else.

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Summary: Accounting For Dummies makes accounting easy for everyone!
Review: This book works for business people, students, and everyday people such as: managers, owners, lenders, investors, bookkeepers, accounting employees, and entrepreneurs. Accounting For Dummies will help improve your grip on financial reports, profit behavior, and cash flow. You'll no longer be intimidated by accountants! It explains accounting information to everyone - from professionals to lay persons serving on their church finance committees.

Accounting For Dummies is very user-friendly and avoids financial jargon. It empowers the reader to make sense of financial statements and provides an easy reference format for specific questions.

I am a Professor of Accounting at the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder and have written two other books on finance. I have had many years experience explaining accounting and financial statements to managers and investors. I welcome comments or questions via my e-mail address - [e-mail].