Reviews (3)

Excellent book
The writing may not be perfect, but it's still a great textbook, probably the best you can find.
Poorly written
This is a poorly written textbook; rambling and fragmented information is presented on a piecemeal basis rather than in a clear, concise and well-organized manner.Important information belonging to one subject-matter chapter, is often presented as "aside" information in other chapters on wholly different subjects.This textbook appears to have been written by an author who forgot to take his ADHD medication.This "substandard" quality has become common place with this particular publishing company, Prentice Hall, to include its many subsidiaries (Pearson, Thompson, Southwestern, etc.), to the detriment of the education system.

This is an Excellent book!!!!
This is an Excellent book!!!!
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Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Accounting - Managerial    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Cost accounting    7. Budgeting & financial management    8. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

Reviews (17)

Guy does not ship it at all!!
This guy sucks..
Concise and Easy to Understand
This book is required for MBA Managerial Accounting, and is also used in undergraduate classes. The topic chapters are well organized and use good examples to explain. This is one of the predominate and most popular books to teach this subject. It does go into detail about T accounts more than is required for my class, although the depth is not too esoteric. With that, I close in stating that the international edition is the same and is much cheaper. Even though stores won't by back Intl Editions, you can save more (and on the front end) than will be refunded at buyback at the end of semester.

Great text book
Overall, this is actually a very well organized and highlighted textbook, the pages are easy to read and the charts and examples are very straightforward. Emphasis is placed in the right places. The bad thing is that the textbook does not supply answers to any of the exercises or problems which really doesn't help, but hopefully your teacher will compensate for that. I still think it's a little verbose and repetitive in the text at times, but otherwise, the chapters deliver good understanding and are very clear. I highly recommend this edition. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Managerial accounting    6. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    7. Management accounting   

Reviews (8)

Introdution to management accouting
Very good. Cover is a little worn. Some pages have been written by pencil.

Used in MBA program - Intro to Accounting
I have had experience with accounting and found this book to be fairly basic.However, if you are a beginner with no knowledge of accounting, this is a good textbook.I read one of the other reviews about how there is a bunch of useless junk on each page and while this is partially true, it would be UNBEARABLE to read if there wasn't this so called "junk" on every page.Overall a good textbook that I will keep around as a reference for accounting basics.

Useful
After reading Horgren's book on financial accounting, this was a relief. It is easy to read and fun to understand. But make sure to ask assistance from you professor. No book is perfect. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Management Accounting    6. Managerial accounting    7. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Accounting - General    3. Accounting - Managerial    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Financial Accounting    8. Management Accounting    9. Business & Economics / Accounting / Financial   

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This book WAS NOT better the second time around
Very hard to read and understand. Each chapter has Learning Objectives and those LO's are referenced for the questions at the end. The problem is: inside the chapter there is no way to find out what the LO's are!!! Me and a friend tried to figure it out but it was almost impossible. A lot of the chapter questions were very difficult. Several spelling errors that a sixth grader could have found. I had a Managerial Accounting class twice, once as a prerequisite for my graduate degree and I am taking it now for my MBA. Imagine my horror when I discovered that I was using this same book twice. I hope you never get stuck with this turkey of a book.

Need a textbook for Management Accounting? Here is one!!!!!
A very nice and neat accounting textbook! This book explains basic accounting concepts clearly, which helps me to master basic concepts of accounting with ease and simplicity. I had a great time to read this book, and it makes learning accounting as interesting as it can be. The introduction and summary of each chapter also help me to understand a big picture of management accounting as well as small details. The treatment of management accounting is thorough and highly advanced with many detailed examples in reality. Need a textbook for Management Accounting? Here is one!!!!!
A very nice and neat accounting textbook! This book explains basic accounting concepts clearly, which helps me to master basic concepts of accounting with ease and simplicity. I had a great time to read this book, and it makes learning accounting as interesting as it can be. The introduction and summary of each chapter also help me to understand a big picture of management accounting as well as small details. The treatment of management accounting is thorough and highly advanced with many detailed examples in reality.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Management Accounting    6. Managerial accounting    7. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

Reviews (1)

Good for MBA class
Overall I liked the book. But there are some goofy computer graphics and sideline stories that take up room and distract the reader. The definitions need to be in the side margins. The book is written well with a lot of examples. It was very expensive and has a lot of color through out it and the cover. I used the optional software PT3 that allows the students to do the homework online. It is good for the students-but there are some formatting errors and the hints are useless. I got an A in the class so I am not complaining. I would reccomend it for upper level students only. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Management - General    6. Managerial accounting    7. Business & Economics / Management    8. Management accounting   

Reviews (10)

The only Performance Dashboard book you will ever need.
I found this book through an excellent dashboard [..]. This book proved to be invaluable to my creation of our company's dashboard. I had never created a dashboard before and was able to because of the easy to understand lay out of the book. This book covers different types of dashboards, how to get your data and of couse the creation of a dashboard.This is a great book for the begginer or the seasoned veteran. I would reccomend this book to anyone who wants to create and implement a dashboard.

A Guide to fully understanding the "Dashboard"
I have designed and implemented "Dashboards" in many forms going back to the time when any vendor with a "portal" product and some widgets claimed they had a "Dashboard" offering. Today, the successful Performance Dashboards truly are effective business management tools with fresh, personalized content based on business goals and processes.
Valuable information for business managers
This book provides very valuable and practical information for business managers interested in implementing performance dashboards. The author does a great job explaining the different types of performance dashboards and the key requirements for successfully creating them. Real examples are used to illustrate the main points. I found the "Assessing Your Organizational Readiness" and "Critical Success Factors - Tips from the Trenches" sections to be especially useful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Evaluation    6. Leadership    7. Management    8. Organizational effectiveness    9. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    10. Quality Assurance (QA) & Total Quality Management (TQM)   

Reviews (11)

Don't buy from college books direct
After ordering, I received a refund the next day.What is up with that?

Dishonesty
This product was purposely advertised under edition 11 while it is in actuality a 7th edition.Not only that, it is not even cost accounting but Financial accounting.To make matters worst the seller was not helpful at all and blamed everything on Amazon.I am doing my second masters and therefore not new to Amazon; so blaming such an institution is no justification for an inherent dishonesty.There was no CD package as well and therefore the only thing that matched to the discreption was the authors.Proof of this persons dishonesty is that on Amazon you can buy the same book he sold me at $2 while he sold (cheated) the book to me for $20 something.I strongly advise no one to buy from this person. If there was any lower rating than 1 I would definetly have given him that as rating "1" is too high of a scale for this persona.

Unhappy
The product has not arrived.I received an e-mail stating that it should arrive 9/22 or 9/23.As of 9/25, it has not arrived. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Accounting - Managerial    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Cost Accounting    7. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

Reviews (9)

Nice Nice Book
very nice overview on MnA. Good introduction and provides references for those who wanna dig into specific topics.
Wonderful reference book
Great reference book! I recently expanded my M&A library of books and among the 4-5 I bought, this one is clearly the one I most use at work. Highly recommended (unlike Arzac's technical read).

New book, but slow delivery
Brand new book.I do not recommend the free shipping though.It is way too slow. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Consolidation and merger of co    6. Consolidation and merger of corporations    7. Corporate Mergers And Acquisitions    8. Mergers & Acquisitions    9. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    10. Takeovers, mergers & buy-outs   

Reviews (7)

Very good resource
I'm CEO of a medium size business and wanted a resource to teach me accounting. This is a great book, with plenty of assignments which fully reinforce the lessons. The only disappointment is that there are no solutions and the publisher only gives them to you if you are a registered teacher.

Great transaction and product
The book arrived early and in great shape - US edition, hardcover, and no surprises.

Used it in place of my assigned financial accounting book...
NYU's Stern School Of Business uses this book and its a well-crafted introduction to financial accounting. While taking accounting at the other New York business school, I deep sixed my assigned accounting book and instead borrowed my wife's. It coverage of topics and pedagogical flow are quite approachable and manageable. Struggling friends begain to purchase it for themselves. An excellent book. An interesting book as well. Case examples and references keep things interesting. Not just dry rules. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting - Financial    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    7. Management accounting   

Reviews (2)

A great book
I have been an auditor for the last seven years and I can assure you that Prof. Arens book is excellent. Even if you have a working experience with audits you will find that this book is not the usual "text book"

Very good textbook
No textbook is really worth 5 stars, in my estimation, because that is reserved for books that actually entertain me!Textbooks seldom do that.However, this auditing text is pretty darn good.
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Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Auditing    3. Auditing - General    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    8. Management accounting   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Corporate Finance    5. Finance    6. Business & Economics / Finance    7. Management accounting   

Subjects:  1. Auditing - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Business & Economics / Auditing    6. Management accounting   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Accounting - Managerial    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Business & Economics / Accounting / Financial    7. Financial accounting   

Reviews (6)

Bloated with Homework Problems
The most surprising thing was how much of the book is homework problems (blue pages).Viewed edge-on they appear to be ~50% of the pages.Many problems are excessively wordy, fine as novellos but reading 2 pages to get to the issues is often tedious.The text is well written, but I didn't find the subject to have as much meat as other MBA subjects like Finance or Operations Research.I understand it is one of the better books on Managerial Accounting.I have 27 years experience at many companies, so others might find the material more enlightening.
Great book!
The great take away from this book is that executives try hard to achieve the optimal solutions for management problems, but that they seldomly succeed. The reason: they underestimate the creativity of their sub-ordinates (and their superiors). Think Management Accounting Rather Than Cost Accounting
Too often management accounting is completely subsumed in cost accounting.Yes, they are part of the same topic, but they have somewhat different emphases.This book covers costs, but it is really more focused on how you allocated decision rights, set measurement criteria, and how you reward people to get the behavior you want.It is also very helpful in clarifying thinking about what could be going wrong if you aren't getting the behavior you wanted out of a given system of measurement and reward.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Managerial accounting    6. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    7. Management accounting   

Reviews (4)

Satisfied
I was very pleased with the condition of this book. It was like new condition. The book was recieved in a timely manner. I would purchase from thisseller again.

This is what you need!
Great book. Clear and helpful. If you want to learn about control systems and business management control, this is the book you need.

from Chile
Es un excelente texto de apoyo para la docencia. Tanto mis alumnos como yo lo hemos utilizado. Es importante el aporte de los autores con los casos de estudio que entregan en cada capitulo, que permite en tender y reforzar losconceptos vertidos en el mismo ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Case studies    6. Corporate Finance    7. Cost control    8. Industrial management    9. Accounting    10. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management   

Reviews (9)

I RECEIVED THE INCORRECT ORDER
1. THE BOOK LATE IN ARRIVE
Excellent text
My instructor for this course was not a good teacher, but the text in this book was so crystal clear, it helped get me an A.

Excellent
The book was brand new and shipped within five days. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Management Accounting    6. Managerial accounting    7. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management   

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Information for Decisions
My stereotype of accounting texts before taking an accounting class and using this book was they were all focused on the mechanics of accounting, which are dull to most students.This textbook, on the other hand,emphasizes the usefulness of accounting in the real world before delvinginto all the rules and regimentation.Therefore, some subjects, like debtsand credits, receive less attention than they might deserve, especially forserious accounting students.The textbook's diagrams are quite colorfuland useful, and its language is simple enough for your average student tounderstand.Hence, I recommend the book to any introductory-level businessstudent, but I think that more serious accounting students might prefer amore advanced or in-depth textbook. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Accounting - Managerial    4. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    5. Finance & Accounting    6. Management & management techniques    7. Managerial accounting    8. Accounting - General    9. Business & Economics   

Reviews (7)

Points the way for years of progress
Most lean accouting books - in fact most books - present what they consider the solutions, the final answer.Real Numbers does present some answers, but more importantly, they provide the direction.By painting a picture of the ideal state that we should all be shooting for, they give us the guideposts to help us make progress and improvements day after day after day.This is much more powerful, because the progress that follows reading and applying this book can last for years.It is also more flexible because we can adopt what they are teaching to a wide variety of settings and companies.Furthermore, the authors have done it - they were there making it work.I think 10 years from now we will still be referring to this book as an important contribution to lean accounting and to accounting in general.

Transforming the Bean Counter...
The book's presentation makes a case for accurate and timely information that is easily understood and actionable.Whereby it is now time to take the benefits learned from implementing lean manufacturing on the shop floor into the office and remove the blinders of old traditional accounting systems.Doing so transforms the accountant from bean counter to a valued partner in the business. The authors provide some solid, invaluable advice
How can a manager gain a real picture of a company's performance? Real Numbers: Management Accounting In A Lean Organization helps managers understand management accounting practices, which often produce complex financial statements which have little to do with reality. Each of the authors is a CFO who probes management accounting systems and how simplicity and clarify can be restored to an organization's accounting system. The authors provide some solid, invaluable advice on tweaking accounting practices to get the most from facts and figures generated by accountants. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Finance    6. Management accounting   

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting - Financial    3. Accounting - Managerial    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Managerial accounting    8. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    9. Financial accounting