Overall Rating: ( 3 reviews )

1. Posted: Jun 9 2008

   This book is a great tool for Financial Statement Analysis and Accounting Courses. A bit repetitive at times but it certainly drives home the accounting and finance concepts. Two thumbs up!

2. Posted: Aug 8 2007

   I hate this book. Why? There is no way to check your answers to all of the problems. If they would have simply put the answers to every other problem in the back of the book, like most books do you could self educate yourself. There is alot of excellent information in the book and a lot of "try it" yourself type problems, but there is no way to check to see if you understood the concepts. This is not a book you could pick up and do the problems, and determine if you even got the answers right. If they would have gave me a way to check to see if I got the problems right, then I would have gave it a 4. I think there is some CD somewhere that has the answers but I couldn't find it. It didn't come with the book. Perhaps it comes with a new book. I bought it used.

3. Posted: Nov 1 2005

   I consider myself very unfortunate to have to use this book in my introductory accounting class. I have no idea why the professor picked this particular book. The formulas and key concepts are scattered around and hard to find. There're many anecdotes throughout the book. I appreciate the effort to make the book less boring. But in essence this practice makes the book even harder to follow. I hope the book did a better job of outlining the contents and making things easy to find. At one point the book talked about "amortization of intangible assets" without bothering to even explain what that means, as if the readers are supposed to know. I'll give credit to the well structured problems in the book. There are many different kinds of practice problem sets that follow each chapter, and I thought the difficulty level of them are just right. This saved the book from 2 stars.

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