11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Personal Education!, 25 Aug 2001
By "auorchid" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Accounting Principles: WITH Land's End Annual Report (Hardcover)
I purchased this book because I wanted to learn more about accounting. I am finding very helpful. I find easy to read and like the examples that it has. I like all the exercises and problems it has at the end of each chapter, they help by allowing you to practice the new knowledge you have read in the chapter.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Book is just too hard to comprehend, 30 Dec 2002
By Adam T Bartlett - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Accounting Principles: WITH Land's End Annual Report (Hardcover)
This book has its high points. The exercises are to the point and easy to understand, but yet somewhat hard to do. However, the text has the problem many accounting books I have seen have, that is the fact it contains too many in-text examples and not enough to the point study points for someone who just needs to know the principals for quick and easy studying. If a course you are in requires this book you best go looking for an additional study manual for study help.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ok for some, not Ok for others..., 14 July 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Accounting Principles: WITH Land's End Annual Report (Hardcover)
I purchased this for school (of course) for a really speedy condensed course on Accounting. If you have a GOOD teacher that can explain this material in layman's terms PLUS use this book as an example, then this is a great book to reflect/study the lectures & do the excercises. I think a person COULD study this on their own but they must like to work out logic problems and have the patience to figure out what is wrong when the problems don't balance.
The CD program that makes spreadsheet that comes along with this is stupid. What a person can do on the program is limited(e.g. put in your own date, make transactions active...)BUT the GREAT THING ABOUT IT IS that you don't have to make pages of SPREADSHEETS. Punch in numbers and DONE! QUICK!
The tutorial CD made the steps of accounting easier to understand. Clear.
I was afraid of taking accounting because it sounded BORING but when I took this class and read the book, it became clear and easy (to me). The people that didn't get good grades were either not absorbing the material(boring attitude all the way!),practicing the problems(who has time to do that when you can go SURF), and didn't ask questions (who wants to hang at school?).
I think a person needs to take time to practice and absorb the material to actually figure it out.