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The Accounting Game, 2E: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand

Judith Orloff, Darrell Mullis

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Total reviews: 57 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

"Fantastic Learning Tool...Don't let this book title fool you. It is not an oversimplification of accounting and financial principles. It is, however, a serious and very effective examination of a very small but progressively complex business. There are not many books available on the market that make a complex and dry subject understandable and even fun. This book successfully does just that."
-Amazon Reviewer

The Clearest Explanation Ever of the Key Accounting Basics

The world of accounting can be intimidating. Whether you're a manager, business owner or aspiring entrepreneur, you've likely found yourself needing to know basic accounting...but baffled by complicated accounting books. What if learning accounting could be as simple and fun as running a child's lemonade stand? It can.

The Accounting Game presents financial information in a format so simple and so unlike a common accounting textbook, you may forget you're learning key skills that will help you get ahead! Using the world of a child's lemonade stand to teach the basics of managing your finances, this book makes a dry subject fun and understandable. As you run your stand, you'll begin to understand and apply financial terms and concepts like assets, liabilities, earnings, inventory and notes payable, plus:

--Interactive format gives you hands-on experience
--Color-coded charts and worksheets help you remember key terms
--Step-by-step process takes you from novice to expert with ease
--Fun story format speeds retention of essential concepts
--Designed to apply what you learn to the real world

The revolutionary approach of The Accounting Game takes the difficult subjects of accounting and business finance and makes them something you can easily learn, understand, remember and use!

"The game approach makes the subject matter most understandable. I highly recommend it to anyone frightened by either numbers or accountants."
-John Hernandis, Director of Corporate Communications, American Greetings

QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual

Bonnie Biafore

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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There have been many improvements to QuickBooks over the years, but the program's documentation is not one of them. Luckily, QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual picks up where QuickBook's help resources leave off. With this book, you don't just learn how to use the software, you learn why and when to use specific features. And you get basic accounting advice so that it all makes sense to you along the way. With its Simple Start, Basic, Pro, Premier, and industry-specific Enterprise editions, QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks companies face, but the price you pay is an overabundance of features. With this book, you get advice on which features you need to use to get your work done efficiently, along with step-by-step instructions on how to use them. QuickBooks 2008: The Missing Manual helps you: Get more out of QuickBooks whether you're a beginner or an old pro. Learn how QuickBooks can help you boost sales, control spending, and save on taxes. Set up and manage your files to fit your company's specific needs. Use QuickBooks reports to evaluate every aspect of your enterprise. Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks. Discover new tips and tricks on the best timesaving options for your business. Build budgets and plan for the future to make your business more successful. And a lot more. This book is designed to accommodate readers at every technical level. If you're a first-time QuickBooks user, special boxes with the title "Up To Speed" provide the introductory information you need to understand the topic at hand. For advanced users, there are similar boxes called "Power Users' Clinic" that offer more technical tips, tricks, and shortcuts forthe experienced QuickBooks fan. For a topic as complicated as accounting software, why trust anything else?

Cost Accounting : A Managerial Emphasis

Charles T. Horngren

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Total reviews: 47 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Cost Accounting Review 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book was on the optional reading for the Graduate Diploma of Marketing for AGSM.

It helped fill in some of the blanks that I had. The Cost accounting solutions manual is an extra (which may be necessary to determine the expected answers.

The website for the 12th edition is still accessible, but slightly shuffled around from what is published in the book (as of August 2008).

Most of the chapters are fairly clear. The extra video online content is interesting. Though, I think an attached CD with all the content would have been much easier.

Though, they do want to charge you more for the online summaries guides, which I did think would be in the Student Solutions manual.


- JF

Editorial Review:

Horngren’s Cost Accounting defined the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently integrating the most current practice and theory. This acclaimed, number one market-leading book embraces the basic theme of “different costs for different purposes.” It reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management. This latest edition of Cost Accounting incorporates the latest research and most up-to-date thinking into all relevant chapters. Professional issues related to Management Accounting and Management Accountants are emphasized. Chapter topics cover the accountant's role in the organization to performance measurement, compensation, and multinational considerations. For future accountants who want to enhance their understanding of–and ability to–solve cost accounting problems.

Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor: Examples and Explanations (Examples & Explanations Series)

Brian A. Blum

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To keep pace with the recent major changes in bankruptcy law, noted author Brian Blum presents a completely revised edition of his popular study guide, "Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor: Examples & Explanations". This comprehensive paperback is well known for its effectiveness in helping students understand the many rules, principles, and policies of the area. The book earns the loyalty of both students and instructors for its: distinguished authorship from Brian Blum, who has written other successful titles in the "Examples & Explanations Series" and is a recognized master of the method; time-tested examples and explanations that clarify potentially confusing material; exceptionally clear and engaging writing; organization and coverage that tracks the leading casebooks in Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law; and problems that allow students to test their understanding of the law. The Fourth Edition responds to the 2005 Bankruptcy Act. It will be updated to reflect changes in bankruptcy law since 2004, and will concentrate particularly on changes made by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. The entire text is revised to correspond to current practice. New and updated examples and explanations focus on areas of change; and new cases illustrate key points "Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law: Examples & Explanations, Fourth Edition", provides the extra help students need to master fundamental concepts in this dynamic area. Be sure to recommend this timely and dependable study guide to your next class.

Small Is The New Big

Seth Godin

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Total reviews: 48 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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An Audiofile Earphones Award Winner Is it better to be CEO of Craigslist or the head of UPS? Bestselling business author Seth Godin reveals why small is better (among other surprises) in this full-size dose of brilliant, provocative thinking. Big used to matter. . . and then small happened. Enron (big) got audited by Andersen (big) and failed (big). American Airlines (big) is getting creamed by Jet Blue (smaller and way faster). Today, little companies often make more money than big companies. So why are so many people still stuck on “big is better”? Seth Godin is famous for fans who are focused, connected, and dissatisfied with the status quo. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world. Small Is the New Big collects the best short pieces from his pioneering blog, ranked #70 in worldwide readership. It also includes his most popular columns from Fast Company magazine and several of his short e-books. Always stimulating, never predictable, Godin continues to change the way we think about marketing, work, and change itself.

Fundamentals of Contemporary Financial Management (with Thomson ONE, Business School Edition)

R. Charles Moyer, James R. McGuigan, Ramesh P. Rao

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Much ado about nothing 1 out of 5 stars.
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The concepts in this book are fantastic. For a general read, the book is fine and will leave you "feeling like" you learned a tremendous amount. HOWEVER, if you are using this book for a class -- give it up. The exercises at the end of each chapter will leave you feeling lost, confused, and ignorant. These feelings will quickly turn into anger. You must read EVERY WORD of the text VERY CAREFULLY and then think outside the box. The highlighted examples are of little use for the exercises. Reading carefully and setting aside about 40 hours a week for assignments will get you a decent grade in the class. For a truly good grade, plan on spending a great deal of time at the library, researching online, and purchasing other books to cover and explain everything this book fails to cover.

By the 5th edition this should be a good book. Currently it is not.

P.s. The study guide that you can buy separately to go with this book is a bigger waste of money. The study guide is riddled with typographical errors on just about EVERY page. Additionally, after going through a college finance course using this book, it also became apparent that the teacher's answer key is also riddled with errors. If you get something wrong, question it, you may actually be right.

P.s.s. I had a 4.0 GPA (created with 17 courses) prior to taking this course. I did manage to pull an A- in this course dropping me to a 3.97 GPA but it took a tremendous amount of work to do that much! This is NOT an easy textbook to follow. The instructor will have to play a HUGE role in making it work. I took this class online and had zero instructor interaction. If you can avoid that do so!

Editorial Review:

This text is a streamlined text for basic financial management. It provides a brief introduction to financial management, incorporating shareholder wealth maximization and cash flow management focus, with emphasis on international financial management and ethical behavior of managers. In addition, the text provides many worked-out spreadsheet examples to provide an even greater applications approach to financial management.

QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual

Bonnie Biafore

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QuickBooks 2009 has impressive features, like financial and tax reporting, invoicing, payroll, time and mileage tracking, and online banking. So how do you avoid spending more time learning the software than using it? This Missing Manual takes you beyond QuickBooks' help resources: you not only learn how the program works, but why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense.

QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks small companies face. QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual helps you handle QuickBooks with easy step-by-step instructions. With this book, you will:

• Get more out of QuickBooks whether you're a beginner or an old pro.
• Learn how QuickBooks can help you boost sales, control spending, and save on taxes.
• Set up and manage your files to fit your company's specific needs.
• Use QuickBooks reports to evaluate every aspect of your enterprise.
• Follow the money all the way from customer invoices to year-end tasks.
• Discover new tips and tricks on the best timesaving options for your business.
• Build budgets and plan for the future to make your business more successful.

If you're new to QuickBooks, special "Up to Speed" boxes fill you in on introductory information. Sidebars labeled "Power Users' Clinic" offer technical tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the experienced QuickBooks fan.

For a topic as complicated as accounting software, why trust anything else?

Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual

Bonnie Biafore

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Quicken is one of the many convenient ways to keep track of personal finances, but many people are unaware of Quicken's power and end up using only the basic features. And sometimes Quicken seems to raise more questions than it answers: Return of capital from stock? "Net worth"? What are they and why do you need to know about them? Luckily, Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual picks up where Quicken's help resources leave off. You'll find step-by-step instructions for using the most useful Quicken features, including those you may not have quite understood, let alone mastered, such as budgeting, recording investment transactions, archiving Quicken data files, and so on. You also learn why and when to use specific features, and which ones would be most useful in your situation. Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual helps you: Set up Quicken to take care of your specific needs. Follow your money from the moment you earn it. Make deposits, pay for expenses, track the things you own and how much you owe. Take care of financial tasks online, and quickly reconcile your accounts. Create and use budgets and track your investments. Generate reports to prepare your tax returns and evaluate your financial fitness. And a lot more. This book is designed to accommodate readers at every technical level. If you're a first-time Quicken user, special boxes with the title "Up To Speed" provide the introductory information you need to understand the topic at hand. For advanced users, there are similar boxes called "Power Users' Clinic" that offer more technical tips, tricks, and shortcuts for the experienced Quicken fan. For a topic as important as your personal finances, why trust anything else?

Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I (Schaum's)

Joel Lerner, James Cashin

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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Robert A. Cooke, Robert Cooke

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A fully revised guidebook on the basics of accounting-- updated to cover an increasingly complex financial arena

In the wake of recent accounting scandals, most managers now realize they need to know more about the inner workings of finance. Many, however, don't know where they will find the time. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers is designed to give readers a working mastery of all finance essentials in just 36 hours and has now been updated to help readers understand the substantial regulatory and practical changes that have taken place in the new world of business accounting. This hands-on workbook delivers its information in accessible and reader-friendly style, including self-study questions and case studies for each chapter. Information new to this edition includes:

• Key updates to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
• Sections detailing what auditing is and what auditors do
• Entirely new sections on pro forma financial statements, stock options as an expense, and more