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The authors of CORPORATE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING, 10E, understand that you need to find important information quickly. This textbook uses an integrated learning system to help you complete homework and lead you to accounting mastery. Building on the authors’ proven approach, clear examples and high-impact writing guide you through the preparation of financial statements as the authors artfully provide a framework for understanding what accounting is all about and accou… More >>
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Rating: 5 / 5
For starters, I’d like to say I got a B+ in my Accounting class, so this review is not a “revenge” post or anything like that. However, this textbook is awful. There are technical typos, mislabeled headings, and problems everywhere. The writing style does a poor job of explaining complex concepts. The example problems do a poor job of explaining the logic behind the answers. The practice problems at the end of each chapter are useless since no answers are provided to see if you are doing the process properly (a HUGE drawback since these problems need to be practiced constantly).
The online homework does an extremely bad job of preparing you for the tests, so be careful if your professor is only using that to prepare you for your exams. My class had a 60% failure rate on the first exam. 60%!!!
Speaking of exams, if your professor is using the exams provided by the publisher, well then god help you. They are extremely, gruesomely hard. Find out ahead of time what your professor is using. If he’s using the provided tests, then you need study like crazy and write out solutions BY HAND and FROM MEMORY before test day or YOU WILL FAIL! Remember: 60% failure rate!
Rating: 2 / 5
This book has excellent examples and illustrations in each chapter. There are many problems and exercises that are very helpful in learning each chapter. One thing I would change is having the solutions to exercises in the book.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is the most horrible book I have ever tried to study out of. I took Accounting twice, both times I concentrated the entire semester on just studying this book and accounting and I still have trouble with the subject of accounting. The videos were no help at all, just a talking head with power point slides, and whoever they used for the talking head guy put me to sleep every time I listened to him.
Rating: 1 / 5
This textbook is HORRIBLE! I usually frown on using such harsh language for reviews, but this truly deserves it. Some people, and I trust that these people are indeed RARE individuals, may find the new examples helpful but they are not. This textbook fails in the area most critical to success, in that it does NOT succeed in approaching the subjects from a students perspective. It is extremely difficult to learn from this text because the examples in it are SO numerous that your though process is interuptted every 30 seconds with some illustrative example. I find these examples mostly to be unnecessary with a solid lecturer. Perhaps CENGAGE should have considered placing all the examples in one section and referencing them instead, but the fact remains that the learning process is disrupted often by unnecessary examples and illustrations.
The text itself is fairly straighforward, but it can be confusing at times. Again, a fact I attribute mostly to poor design and oversight. I would not recommend this textbook to anyone. It’s overpriced and you will want to bang your head into the desk while trying to make sense of the poppycock these buffoons called editors expect us to accept. You have failed horribly CENGAGE. Forget your stupid GPS model, and just make a clear and easy to understand text. Is it really that hard?
Rating: 2 / 5