Managerial Accounting, 9th edition
926681
This is an outstanding book, which covers complex topics on a very friendly manner. Maybe for some readers this book may seem hard to understand, so I strongly recommend everybody to think over the necessity of studying managerial accounting. For me as a person who works with internal finance and who makes prompt decisions upon raw timely data, the book was a relief. It covers such immensely important topics as break-even, leverage, cost behavior and structure, and so forth. One suggestion, do not learn everything by heart, it's useless. You never learn everything in managerial accounting. Use the book as a reference for your everyday needs. Good luck.
1053125
This book is great! It gives you really good examples of cost accounting problems. It includes easy to understand solutions in every chapter. I'm a current CMA candidate and this book helped understand many of costing procedures that I had difficulty grasping in college. Excellent review material!
2647561
The textbook was in fine condition and the price was reasonable, considering that this textbook can be expensive. You should buy it!!
715386
This book covers all the quantitative topics around the loss distribution approach for OR. It follows an actuarial-driven approach to explain the models for frequency, severity and aggregation of loss distribution, and the relative statistical estimating and testing. But do not look for OR management topics in this book: it give its best in the actuarial measurement of operational risk.
3835080
If you haven't taken any accounting courses and want to learn finance, this is a pretty good book. It gives you a quick overview of basic accounting, some managerial tools and financial indicators.
2789368
I have been using QB for several years now and it has all that I need to handle our accounting needs. The menus are well laid out and easy to work with. The only change I would make is in the area of report generation. It is a bit fussy to work with in tailoring your reports to get just the information you are looking for. We search on the Memo field heavily so if there are typos in the information, the reports are incomplete.

Other than that I give it 4 stars and think it is a very good product for the small business owner.
2673352
The book is current as of the edition date which is 2009. This book is required for my Spring 2013 Class. I would prefer more current information.
4317014
Some of the book's chapters include the following:  Conceptual Framework Underlying Financial Accounting, The Accounting Information System, Income Statement and Related Information, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows, Cash and Receivables, Valuation of Inventories, and Additional Inventory Valuation Issues. This book is supposed to be at the Intermediate level.  It goes beyond the basic beginning accounting on some issues that basic beginning accounting books normally don't mention such as Irregular Items in the Income Statement such as Discontinued Operations and Extraordinary Items, etc.  Also, the Bank Reconcilation Issue is described in more detail than the basic beginning level accounting books.
4914714
"Practical Lean Accounting" is the best management accounting book I've read in 20 years - maybe more. Well written and illustrated with plenty of examples and diagrams, it adds new tools to management accounting and restores the relevance of some older ones. As such I recommend it to all management accountants and students - whether or not you are involved in lean accounting itself.

The aim of the book is to "produce a roadmap for finance managers in companies seeking to transition their organisations into lean enterprises". Lean accounting is a new approach to managing a business and, as management accountants, we have a duty to be there. As the authors say "it's never too early to start dismantling the company's transaction driven control systems. They represent huge amounts of waste and cost to the organisation !".

Specifically, lean management seeks to radically restructure the organisation into Value Streams (rather than functional departments), and this requires new management accounting tools including Value Stream performance measures, Box Scores, new methods of planning and budgeting, target costing and a whole host of other tools. The book explores all these tools in detail. The introduction of "lean" tools also allows significant reduction in transactions in the company's accounting processes, including the elimination of full-absorption costing.

Lean accounting is, therefore, designed to replace "traditional" accounting techniques which encourage inefficient practices such as building inventory, and often lead to poor management decisions (using Standard costs). Traditional measures are also too complicated for operational employees to understand easily and are often too late to be useful in shopfloor decision making. Lean accounting, by contrast, is very much focused on simple visual shopfloor measures for instant decision making, coupled with management accounting tools for longer term planning.

"Practical Lean Accounting" provides a good overview of the lean management process, and excellent linkage to management accounting activities. Highly recommended.
4378766
Business Statistics: For contemporary Decision making , 7th edition, was exactly want I needed for my spring semester Business Statistics class, book seems to be in good shape, also there is a ton of material and highlights of chapters and summaries of key points. this book looks promising, I hope I learn a lot and get an A in my class!
3376789
I have not yet completed the book, but I find the approach to a Unified chart of accounts confirms my approach of creating multi-purpose chart of accounts for reporting.  Though there are many illustrations, a working model in Excel, or Access would be better.  I am in the non-profit industry at this moment dealing with GAAP requirements and form 990 reporting.  So this book is one in a million for anyone just entering the reporting requirements.
4483882
This book gives you a easy to read reference book to setup and use Quicken 2009. Even though the software has a great, intuitive help, this book gives a lot of other approaches you will fine to very helpful in planning how you will use Quicken 2009. It is a book you should have for reference.

Joseph
3130339
This is indeed a very unique view on the accounting topic. Instead to define the
required double-entry accounting rules in a textual form, the autor is taking
a pure (abstract) algebraic approach by defining a number of axioms that are used
to structure down the whole accounting system including transactions, balances, etc..

In general I would like to see a "Volume 2" with some more detailed considerations.
3265926
The book arrived ahead of promised delivery date and was in very good condition for a used copy. Since this is the purchase for my daughter for her upcoming economics class (Micro & macro), I will leave the real book review to others. Nevertheless, I found the book is easy to understand and well organized.
1238834
An INSEAD MBA, I have spent quite a while researching the Institute's  library and looking for a good-quality book on valuations and financial  modeling. I have found Simon Benninga's book is an absolutely wonderful  source of information on financial mathematics, portfolio theory, corporate  finance, and related Excel applications applied in modeling and  forecasting. Having paged through many a book on the subject, I can  honestly state that this one is, probably, the best available in the  market.
Hope my comment was helpful. Regards, Luria.
4140288
This is an excellent book which was required by my instructor to purchase. The price was excellent for a student vs. the higher cost at the college bookstore. Thank you
4071893
This text is useful. I have found a few typos. I'm wondering what changed so much between the 10th and 11th edition. It was pretty expensive