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The authors' extensive experience in teaching and private practice show in this introduction to accounting. Financial and management accounting topics are integrated into a natural order—the way they may occur in a real start-up business. The book presents the evolution of a fictitious business from its formation, looking first at the strategic planning and research to organize the business, financing the plan, investing in the resources, amd operating the business. As you read, you'll learn the accounting cycle culminating with the financial statements, to analyze the information for internal management decisions, and to compare the fictitious business with others. An excellent resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners, as well as accounting managers in large corporations.
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Start-up approach to beginning accounting.......2006-02-23
I bought this textbook precisely because it presented a framework for accounting that would be encountered by a start-up company. When I studied first year accounting it was what you would call bookkeeping and I don't remember it as being particularly interesting.
This book, because of its ongoing narrative about the start-up, was much better. It lacks color and graphics such as you will now find in many other texts, but did quite well in getting Elevation Sports up and running. Maybe the authors can find a more interesting start-up, but the premise is a good one that I hope other authors will follow.
Record purchase entry of this book as a bad debt.......2005-04-10
You know, it's too bad these reviews can't be weighted because there's a class of about 40 people with whom I took accounting in university that would trash this book. Make it 41 for the prof who stepped in and had to use it. It is not well written, with information presented out of logical order. It does not cover the materials sufficiently, nor in enough depth, trying to combine financial and managerial accounting in a book full of "worksheet" style pages that could have, and should have, been cheaply produced in an accompanying study or homework guide instead of built into a hard cover book that doesn't even have a lot of content to begin with. It's a waste of money at just about any price, not being able to teach the material, never mind at its outrageous price. I wish we could sue to get our money back on books that simply don't live up to standards. I also wish there was a zero star rating, or negative ones, which indicate complete waste of time and/or money, never mind zero value to purchase and read!
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SURVEY OF ACCOUNTING 3e, is designed for a one-term introductory accounting course. It provides an overview of the basic topics in financial and managerial accounting, without the extraneous accounting principles topics that must be skipped or otherwise modified to fit into a one-term course. Written for students who have no prior knowledge of accounting, the text emphasizes how accounting reports are used by managers, investors, and other business stakeholders.
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This text provides a contemporary introduction to accounting and accounting systems. It covers the essence of both financial and managerial accounting in a non-procedural, non-debit and credit manner. After a brief introduction to financial statement preparation, the remainder of the text focuses on controls and the use of accounting information in decision making.
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Outstanding Accounting Book.......2006-05-19
This is an outstanding book for studying accounting. It gives an excellent survey of basic financial and managerial accounting. Students will find a treasured spot with the online resources. The lessons presented in PowerPoint are great learning tools to reinforce each chapter in the book. Using the templates to complete homework assignments is just wonderful. I recommend students don't just pass over these resources without even trying them. They will make your studies much easier.
Book review.......2006-02-25
This is a good overview of financial and managerial accounting. It provides the necessary details to understand the accouting system and financial management practices.
It could be improved by better defining T-accounts equal ledgers in most accounting practices.
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Survey of Accounting is designed to cover both financial and managerial accounting in a single 16-week course, presenting the material in a style easy for non-accounting majors to grasp. It incorporates the same pedagogical innovations that have made Edmonds' financial and managerial titles such fast-growing successes in the marketplace, including his unique Horizontal Financial Statements Model and a multiple accounting cycle approach that demonstrates the impact of related events over a series of accounting cycles.
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Wonderful Book!.......2007-07-24
I bought this school for a graduate level class on accounting. I took several accounting classes as part of my undergraduate studies and this book blows the other accounting books I've used away. This book is written in a very easy to read and understand way. It provides clear and straightforward examples for nearly every concept. Also, although I started reading this book thinking it would just be a good review, I have found that I am still learning a lot from it. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in accounting!
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Introducing a complete, self-contained package of highly focused content, real-world examples, cases from the travel industry, and problems of all levels! Core Concepts of Accounting offers non-accounting majors the resources they need to understand key financial and managerial accounting concepts, without presenting too much detail or too much text.
Throughout, the emphasis is on how to interpret accounting information and how to use it to make smart business decisions. To make the connection to students future careers, several elements in the text are based on real companies and real decisions.
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Required for ACCT301@UMUC for my BS in Marketing.......2006-08-21
This book made it so easy to understand everything I needed to know for my course! Raiborn lays everything out in a very simple straightforward way, plus the examples are great!
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Most accounting books are difficult for business professionals to learn from, due to too much depth and breadth of coverage. This text makes it easy to train yourself or your employees, since it covers only the financial and managerial accounting concepts they really need to know. Managers and other professionals will get a good working knowledge of both how and why accounting is used in business, and in making informed decisions. Plus, financial and managerial topics are both included, and can be covered independently of each other.
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Not bad for a beginner.......2000-03-31
This book provided a great deal of useful information on general accounting and business financial practices.
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Derivatives: A Comprehensive Resource for Options, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Mortgage Securities (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series)
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Arditti describes and explains four major classes of derivative instruments: options, futures, interest rate swaps, and mortgage derivatives. He discusses each market's structure and the applications and pricing of each instrument, focusing on the valuation methods that are most commonly used by professional market participants. Each segment begins with a description of the institutional arrangements that have come to characterize the markets in which the instruments trade. Arditti examines basic derivatives in each class with respect to their risk transference properties, risk management applications, and pricing. He then traces the evolution of these markets in terms of new instruments introduced, the factors inspiring their development, and the alterations in pricing technology required by more complex derivatives. Arditti includes numerical examples to clarify the procedures. The Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series.
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Very good Book for a practitioner.......2005-12-09
I found the book very useful in practice. It gave you a lot of details.
Very poorly written.......2004-02-13
I found Arditti's writing to be simply attrocious. What the marketplace needs is a clear, concise guide to instrument structure and valuation, and Mr. Arditti writes in circles. As an example, his chapter on option pricing refers to "using the methods used previously in this chapter" without referring to how to apply these to the method just introduced. The method just introduced was explained using numbers that were presumably fabricated, but lord only knows, because the author can't be bothered to specify how his example was structured.
In trying to explain things simply, the author fails to explain anything clearly. "Derivatives" is an extreme disappointment. As a reference, this book may have some use, but if you're looking to learn something from it, stear clear.
He knows how to design derivatives and make them work.......2003-07-28
I am completely satisfied with this book. He knows how to design derivatives and make them work. This book does a remarkable job of explaining the theory and practice of derivative securities.
EXCELLENT AND IN PATCHES OUTSTANDING.......2000-08-09
This book is an excellent resource for beginning and intermediate level fund managers who want to understand the derivatives to be able to use them in risk hedging and income maximization.
The book is excellently organized in four sections and each section is self sufficient. Each of the sections begin with basics, illustrates the concepts with example, introduces the mathematics of pricing and methodology of hedginag of risks
Every section has also a nice subsection on terminology and definitions.
The book is an excellent attempt to explain a highly technical and complex subject.The section on Interest Rate swaps is outstanding. A must read for all corporate money managers and a must addition to all financial libraries.
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When companies need fuel to grow, bonds may be the way to go. Traditional blue-chip firms and dot-com startups alike can use debt strategically as a key financial instrument. The critical challenge, however, is integrating corporate debt into core business strategies and established financial policies. This practical book provides practitioners in every industry with a comprehensive, prudent approach to managing corporate debt obligations. Written by leading experts in the field and drawing from case studies of real companies, Debt Management walks financial professionals through the entire decision-making process--from designing debt issues to retiring debt through bond redemptions and bond repurchases, all to meet corporate financial objectives. Unique in its presentation of the issuer's perspective--that is, it looks at debt from the company's viewpoint, and not just the buyer's or underwriter's--this work will be the industry reference on debt management and the corporate financier's desktop consultant for years to come. With insights into how factors such as bond valuation methodologies, derivatives, and tax and regulatory restrictions affect the process, the authors provide practitioners in both the U.S. and international debt markets with the information and tools needed to make smart debt-management decisions. With first-rate thinking in finance, while keeping the complex mathematics to a minimum, this volume will prove as handy as it is indispensable--the essential reference for planning, implementing, and managing corporate debt with discretion and confidence.
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Lease or Buy?: Principles for Sound Decision Making (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis)
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Lease or Buy Principles of Sound decison schallheim.......2005-09-28
It is a used copy from a community college library. I hope it is not a stolen copy but a resale by the college library. The condition is good. I am satsified with the product.
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