Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 8th Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01AKSZ8QM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 501 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Starting with the big picture of financial statements first, Paul Kimmel's Financial, 8th Edition, shows students why financial accounting is important to their everyday lives, business majors, and future careers. This best-selling financial accounting program is known for a student-friendly writing style, visual pedagogy, the most relevant and easy to understand examples, and teaching the accounting cycle through the lens of one consistent story of Sierra Corp, an outdoor adventure company.
"This Book is Terrible!" according to Diane Eberle. This book is terrible! It gives different definitions for the same term several times in the first few chapters. Why doesn't it just give one coherent, comprehensive definition for each word?!! The concepts are broken up and presented helter-skelter, so reading this book is like working a tedious jigsaw puzzle. Then it includes lots of problems at the end of each chapter, but there is no answer key, and the Solutions Manual is only available to teachers. Do they think that my professor is too lazy or too stupid to make up his own tests? (Hint to oblivious writers/editors: a textbook is u. I can understand a chemistry or biology textbook better than this one Walter Yuth This textbook was required. My professor's lecture was based on this book. Reading it was difficult. I wished the authors were writing the textbooks to young students that are not in the college of business. In fact, I can understand a chemistry or biology textbook better than this one.I don't like the book's format. There's a lot of unnecessary pictures, side notes, and "ethic notes" that could be omitted. They take up a lot of space, and I would like that room to write in the margins. Also, if the stuff on the side is important, why not just put it within the paragraph, so I can have s. Why is there a bike on the cover? Amazon Customer This textbook is great but has a few flaws. First off, there are way too many problems at the end of each chapter that you don't know which to work at. The author omits why accounts for the assets are debits and why the liabilities and stockholder's equity are credits. The stockholder's equity chapter was a little confusing. Accounting is not the most exciting subject but spend time looking at the chapter and do the problems and you'll do okay.