- Paperback
- Publisher: Prentice Hall (August 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0536633711
- ISBN-13: 978-0536633712
- See Complete Table of Contents
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From the Back Cover
STUDENTS LEARN BETTER WITH REIMERS!
THE BEST CHOICE FOR ACCOUNTING MAJORS AND NON-MAJORS
If you're an accounting major, here's some good news! Jane L. Reimers' Financial Accounting: A Business Process Approach covers all of the core topics critical to the financial accounting course. If you're a non-major, you're in luck too. Why? Because Reimers emphasizes how accounting relates to and reports on business activities. The accounting issues are presented in the context of running a business—something you are very likely to do in your future career!
WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND WHERE WE'RE GOING
You always know what's important in Reimers. How? Because each chapter sets the stage for students with a quick overview of what they just learned ("Here's Where You've Been...") and where they're headed ("Here's Where You're Going...") so that students are prepared to tackle new concepts.
STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS — TOM'S WEAR RUNNING CASE
Have you ever wanted to run your own business? In Chapter 1, you are introduced to Tom, an entrepreneur who decides to create a t-shirt business. In subsequent chapters, you learn financial accounting concepts through Tom's experiences as he grows and expands his business.
TOM'S WEAR WITH EXCEL
Excel is a critical business tool for all students to master. In every chapter, you see Tom's Wear monthly transactions illustrated in Excel. And, the optional in-text Understanding Excel Problems in each chapter enable you to build your own Excel skills. In addition, Reimers has a unique Getting Started w/ Excel for Tom's Wear that takes the essential concepts from the text and puts them into a handy manual for students to use in the lab or at home.
STUDY BREAKS
In-text "Study Breaks" appear frequently throughout the chapters to enable you to pause and assess your understanding of recently covered material.
FREE INTERNET TOOLS!
Don't forget the wealth of free study tools available to you on the web site at www.prenhall.com/reimers! Go to this site to take chapter quizzes (and get instant feedback on your answers!), chat with your friends, ask questions of an accounting tutor, and download tutorial software, spreadsheets, and much more!
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Financial Accounting, Sep 19 2009
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I have only read two chapters and they seem to be quite informative. This is my first ever financial course.
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Good info, needlessly complicated, Jan 15 2012
By G. Mandelbaum - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Financial Accounting: A Business Process Approach (Hardcover)
Accounting is rule-driven and reductive. It seeks to standardize. In practice, you don't reinvent the format of financial statements (cheats use omission or exaggeration, not novel formats). So why do academics and textbook publishers make beginners wade through obscure and idiosyncratic reimaginings of straightforward content instead of focusing on clearly conveying the real-world skills one would need to survive along enough to acquire nuance through experience? This introduction to accounting constantly derails relevant concepts with intrusive parentheticals and asides that likely reflect the author's academic research and her signature organizational perspective. Visually, the most maddening "improvement" on reality is the "Accounting Equation Worksheet," a needlessly abstract variation on a common theme. Here it is a single Mondrianesque color-coded chart that combines the various financial statements, but without the contextual benefit of what they actually look like. There are myriad better, clearer versions online, and thank goodness for the internet! Perhaps the publisher is too cheap to print examples of real statements for step by step real examples or believes these dopey conceptual matrices effectively differentiate their product in a competitive market; to me, the burdensome and ubiquitous Worksheet renders the overpriced and equally fussy My Accounting Lab add-on all but useless. A week into the course, I gave up trying to understand the book and rely instead on simple, straightforward, professionally written online articles, many of them by academics with a more practical objective - to teach real people accounting as efficiently as possible. I would not recommend this book to instructors whose their jobs rely in part on student eval scores. To professors, textbook authors and other royalty generators, consider the adult end-user whose goal is right work and use your brilliance not to showcase, but to simplify.
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