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Accounting For Dummiesx$11.82
  (20 reviews)
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Learn the basics of practical accounting easily and painlessly with Accounting For Dummies, 4th Edition, which features new information on accounting methods and standards to keep you up to date. With this guide, you can avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics with this plain-English guide to your accountant’s language. Understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.
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Not abt Accounting
By on 2000-09-19
While the book does have an excellent layout and has been thoroughly and professionally edited, like almost all of the "for Dummies" books, it lacks content where it needs it most. There is surprisingly little about accounting. There are no examples of how to create any of the three basic accounting reports, the balance sheet, income statement, and the cash flow statement. Double-entry accounting, the foundation of modern accounting, is only given three short pages with, again, no examples. It is not written for those who want to know how to do accounting or how to assist their accountant with their own company's books, but for those who want to have a functional understanding of a small set of reports. This makes it wholly inadequate for someone who wants to learn about accounting. On the other hand, this could make it a good resource for the middle-level manager who needs to know a little about how to read a small group of reports.
Not for you if your looking for a bookkeeping treatise.
By on 2001-10-02
This book is great (I mean great) if you need to understand what is profit, whats in a balance sheet, how to understand it, whats in an income statement. What are assets, etc, etc. This book will open your eyes. Like others have said its not about double entry bookkeeping, or how to prepare your balance sheet. Find that elsewhere. This book addresses what the numbers mean and how to follow them to come to conclusions and how to use that information.Let me put it this way. If you have a small business, or are put into a position where you need to manage money for a business, or need to buy a business. This book will help you if your not accountant savy. Its a great book, and is very well written. Another five star success for the dummies series.
Rated it One Star Because There Was Nothing Lower
By on 1999-08-29
I was looking for a serious treatment of a very important subject and found the book trivial and very shallow. Sure there are cartoons, but if one wanted a cartoon book there are many more that are much better.The whole Dummies series has gotten out of hand. They ought to team up with More Turkey Soup to be Spoon Fed by Dummies. Perhaps the series should be called Dummies Books by Dummies. There are many better books about accounting than this.
Don't know math? Need to know accounting?
By ASW5SVXO0ZATM on 2000-10-17
This is the book. This book got me, a non-quantitative anti-numbers person, through MBA financial accounting. Particularly good are chapters 5-9, that help interpret and explain financial statements. By no means does this offer everything you need to know for accounting, but offers a great foundation (hence, Dummies). I have also used it in my personal life to review info on my stocks.
Not for people who want to learn how to crunch some numbers.
By on 2003-10-09
If you are looking for a book that actually gives you good examples that will teach you to crunch some numbers on your own and prepare accounting statements and such, then this is NOT the book for you. It has a lot of writing about the different areas of accounting, but it did little for me. I was looking for a book that gave me real life examples that could help me understand how to do minimal accounting for my smal business. Some of the other introduction to accounting books are much better in this regard.
- not so exciting
By A23RTUTZ78MSLM on 2002-01-13
This book is quite disappointing, and I (someone with no accounting background) find it boring and too easy--the manual for an accounting software seems more exciting than this. I feel there is little about accounting in this book; rather, I find a huge section praising what accountants do. I think if numbers give you a headache and you abhor math, you may consider laboring through this book. Otherwise, try something else.
- Excellent ... for certain purposes
By A3LH0Q9GCCEDC4 on 2006-07-26
Accounting for Dummies is an excellent book for dummies to understand accounting practices, not necessarily perform accounting yourself. Whether this book will be helpful or not depends on your educational goal.
If you are a small business and want to learn how to "keep the books," this book isn't for you. I think Idiot's Guide to Accounting is more geared for that.
However, If you want to learn the termonology and ideas behind accounting practices this is good. I'm a graduate business student who never had accounting in undergraduate classes. This book was very helpful in "getting me caught up." It also helps you learn to read and understand a financial statement as well.
The book is also well read, easy to read and follow. Termonology is clearly explained and future mention of those ideas have references back to the original explanation. There is a good glossary in the back and the index is very complete.
- Good book, but it was hard to understand.
By on 1999-05-28
I found it very difficult to understand as I am an idiot, but the different colored grey boxes displaying "Quick information" led me away from the body of the text and created confusion for myself.
- Very Good book for Financial and Mangerial Accounting
By on 2003-11-16
This is a great book for a person to use to suplment what is learned and practiced in Both entry level college accounting classes. It really will help you get a better grade in the class by reinforcing and explainations that are different then your typical college textbook. I highly reccomend this book for any college student that will be taking accounting, it is well worth it's price and I believe if read during the semester along with the practice in your class you will get a better grade. I did.
- Misnamed
By A16QJ649N8PRV on 2006-04-07
Although billed as a reference on accounting, this book is very inadequate for that purpose.
There are numerous accounting basics that are not mentioned or only touched on in passing. Among those that are not addressed at all are the following: monetary measurement, separate entity, realization, materiality. There are also other essentials that are missing.
There are several other fundamentals that are not covered adequately. Items in this category include these: FIFO, LIFO, and double entry accounting. Even the three essential reports of accounting - the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows - are inadequately covered.
This may be ok as a supplement to another book, but it is lacking a bit as a standalone on the subject it purports to cover.
- Good supplement for your accounting class!
By A3PBGBDVFSYXJ6 on 2006-03-07
When I saw that I was foundering in my second attempt to pass accounting, I bought this book. It seemed to complement my textbook well. After reading this book I seemed to be able to understand the textbook and my accounting class better. In the end, I not only passed but received an "A" in the class. Might be due to the Dummies book, might be due to the time that I spent in my determination to pass.
I'm not saying that you'll get an A in your accounting class if you buy this book, but it will help you out if your instructor chose a poor accounting textbook.
Like all Dummies books, this is well written and well organized. I'd check it out if you find yourself confused in your Accounting class.
- Great Overview
By AKBQA7OTLWWPI on 2006-07-10
I am an entry-level financial analyst straight out of college with little accounting experience (due to a broad liberal arts education) and who had never read the 3 financial statements prior to working. This book was my savior. It explains accounting on a conceptual level, which has been perfect for me. Great for an analyst, not the book for an auditor, obviously. It's great for someone who wants to learn to analyze and become proficient/literate at reading the statements, not for someone who wants to know exactly how to do bookkeeping (which is exactly how the author qualifies his book in the beginning). I'm a big fan of John Tracy's writing, which is easy to read and concise. This book led me to read his other accounting book, "How to read a Financial Report," also a great read.
- Great Book!
By A2JXQL71S95NN6 on 2006-11-07
This is a great accounting book, but I work in a government office and the procedures here are very different that what is depicted in the book. I found some sections very helpful though and if I worked at a small business and was required to set up an accounting system this would have been that perfect book.
- Good explanations
By A2JEZYHH7997PL on 2005-09-30
This book is suitable for those who want to understand what accounting is about. It provides good explanation for the dual-entry system and various ratios. After going through half of this book, my wife has gained some appreciation for basic accounting concepts.
Personally I think the book would be better if it includes some more exercises in number crunching. That is why it only gets four stars.
This book is useful for a casual person who wants to learn accounting. If you are an accounting student, don't expect this book to do better than your professor.
- Great book - very simple.
By A2OIT95QC6VM48 on 2007-06-05
Great book. I can't do math (I went to private school) but even I was able to follow the clear, well written formulas in this book.
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