Hardcover: 896 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 13th edition (March 14, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0136126634
ISBN-13: 978-0136126638
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 1.3 x 11.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
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This textbook was terrible. Luckily, I have taken Managerial accounting in the past so I did not have to rely on this author's explanations of the material. The concepts are not explained well in this book and the problems are worded in such a way that you could argue that there are multiple correct answers. Avoid.
Is there a better way to use this book than to burn it? No.I had the misfortune of using this book for managerial accounting, quite possibly one of the most boring and over-complicated classes in the world. Over-complicate: as in the material is actually easy but they must write 1000 pages on it so that students will never understand it.In any event, people still use this book for some reason. When I tried to sell it around 2 years later, the book depreciated to $1 from $200 because I guess the 14th edition came out. Either that or this book was found to cause herpes. It's ironic that this book is an accounting failure of its own and the publishers can't even find a way to prevent the book from depreciating 19900%. Nonetheless, since it's now worth $1, it would be of more value to use this as firewood.
Considering cost accounting is a hard subject to begin with, I would think the authors would like to make the book easier to comprehend. Nope, not these people. This book was difficult to comprehend. Luckily I had a good enough teacher. He had simplier ways to work the problems, I would think the book would have showed the best and simplier way, nope. Their instrcutions were not great at all.
I do not like Cost Acounting. I like this book because it made it possible for me to understand cost accounting and get an A. It is very well organized and easy to use and understand even though the subject is somewhat difficult.
I'm an accounting student and this was a required text book for my class. IMHO it's a terrible book, makes an already complicated subject much harder to understand. Reading it is a drag, it's so boring! Also, the examples are very complicated and the author does not explain it well, it's very easy to get lost. And finally, it does a very poor job at defining key terms and explaining key concepts, it basically lets you to figure it out on your own. Not a helpful book at all.
I really can't complain. The topics were easy to follow, the problems were relevant to the material covered and it has contributed to my successful completion of a graduate level managerial accounting course.
Some parts of the book were OK. Other parts were very ambiguous and unclear in explaining the material. I feel that the material should have and could have been better written. Overall, I would give it a fair rating, not a super great rating and not a super poor rating.
I dislike this book so much that I am taking time to write this review. I have taken many other courses in college and this is the worst book I have had to use. My managerial accounting book, written by Weygandt is much better detailed and shows you how to do the problems. This book is more qualitative and the questions and problems give me a headache. It is one thing that the questions and problems are hard (not a bad thing, a challenge can help learning), but that each question has many sections and has like 3 paragraphs of scenarios. I don't see how this is necessary, it just confuses me. I had a much easier time learning managerial accounting than cost accounting, which is the same exact material covered in this book.
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