Essentials of Accounting (7th Edition)

Rating:
Summary: extremely 'user friendly' book
Review: Simply a fantastic introduction to the concepts and ideas. I have read a number of books on the subject, however, this book beats them all hands down.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for beginner
Review: This book is perfect for a person who has a general understanding of bookkeeping but wants to know more about accounting. It makes a good review for a person who uses financial statements but does not prepare them. It is a workbook, so the reader answers questions on each page. This encourages retention of information.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Accounting Tutorial
Review: This guide is an excellent teaching medium. Instead of reading page after page of text, the author engages the reader in answering questions and conducting drills to apply the material. Accounting is one of the subjects that you can learn more about each time you cycle through the material. I'd had an accounting course as part of my MBA program, and have read a couple of traditional accounting textbooks and this book really helped me understand how the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows are interrelated. This is a good book for busy professionals that don't have time to take an accounting course. I spent two hours on each chapter, for a total of 22 hours. The book is expensive, but worth it!

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Accounting Tutorial
Review: This guide is an excellent teaching medium. Instead of reading page after page of text, the author engages the reader in answering questions and conducting drills to apply the material. Accounting is one of the subjects that you can learn more about each time you cycle through the material. I'd had an accounting course as part of my MBA program, and have read a couple of traditional accounting textbooks and this book really helped me understand how the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows are interrelated. This is a good book for busy professionals that don't have time to take an accounting course. I spent two hours on each chapter, for a total of 22 hours. The book is expensive, but worth it!

Rating:
Summary: Tedious, but with a point
Review: With no accounting background, I picked this book up prior to entering my first accounting class. This book is laid out as something of a workbook. It will describe or define something and then ask you to fill in the blank with the concept learned several times. The book progressively builds on the material it has covered, linking concepts together. At the end of every chapter is a review section. It moves from the most fundamental to the more advanced. Overall, a very good book. Be warned, it starts off painfully slowly, but picks up steam a few chapters in. A good book for someone who knowns nothing about accounting and financial statements and wants a basic understanding of how accounting views/treats things and of how financial statements articulate with one another.