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Advanced Accounting
by Craig D. Shoulders
from Prentice Hall College Div

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

• Content As Bad As the Attention-to-Detail on the Cover Picture Design
  If you look at the book's cover picture, you'll notice that the piece of pencil shaving that is coming out of the pencil sharpener is upside down with respect to where the pencil is inserted. The shaving would only be positioned as pictured if the pencil was inserted through the other end.
  The contents of this book provide the same lack of attention to detail. The example problems throughout the chapters are poorly explained and require you to look to other sources in order to fully grasp the concepts.... more info

• Horrible book
  Advanced Accounting (9th Edition) (Advanced Accounting)
  This is a horribly written book. The answers to the exercises are really hard to find in the text. A book should not involve a deep thought process, as that should be saved for the exams. I don't think the author matched well with his questions and what he or she wrote in the book. There is too much history and news in it and not enough of "should know" things. The bottom line is that FASB does what it wants, who cares why, who cares when.... just... more info

• Need more examples -- rely on website?
  As a student I found this book's transaction examples to be somewhat limited. For instance, in the existing-foreign-currency-transaction hedge examples, both cash-flow and fair-value, only A/R adjustments are treated, there are no *buy side* transactions with A/P illustrated. There are also a lot of minor errors that are distracting.

• A better text is available
  As background for dissusion of the Beams "Advanced Accounting" text, 9th ed.: I took advanced accounting at one university last summer (which covered much of advanced accounting, but no accounting for not-for-profit organizations). Due to scheduling availability, I am taking advanced accounting at a different university this summer...this class WILL cover not-for-profit accounting issues, which is why I am taking it. We used the Hoyle, Schaefer, Doupnik "Advanced Accounting" 7th ed. text last year, and even... more info

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