Financial Accounting For Dummies

by Maire Loughran

Your plain-English guide to navigating a financial accounting course Despite the economic landscape and job market, demand for accountants remains strong, and accountants will continue to see high demand for their services as the economy rebounds and businesses grow. Additionally, one of the effects of the economic downturn is a greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, and controls in financial reporting.

With easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples, Financial Accounting For Dummies provides students who are studying business, finance, and accounting with the basic concepts, terminology, and methods to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements.

Covers traditional introductory financial accounting course material Explores concepts accountants and other business professionals use to prepare reports Details mergers and acquisitions purchase and pooling, free cash flow, and financial statement analysis Whether you're a student on your way to earning a bachelor's degree, MBA, or MAcc, Financial Accounting For Dummies gives you a wealth of information to grasp the subject and ace the course.

Genres: Business, Accounting, Finance, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Self Help

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 2011

Reviews

[Cristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this book and still got a 78 on my accounting final

[Beige Alert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got this to augment a textbook - and - well, it's pretty much the textbook (although it actually covered more).

If needed, it might work out better than the textbook for reference since this book is overly repetitive in an attempt to make it possible to drop in anywhere.

I'm not sure if textbooks are getting better in tone and style, or if the topic is just complex enough not to be able to dumb it down.

I wish there had been more explainers. I get the reason for adjusting bond issue prices, but I've yet to find any textbooks that explain it well rather than just jumping into the math. In retrospect, what I wanted wasn't reading two books which were essentially the same - I wanted a book that did a better job of filling in higher level conceptual issues and leaving the textbook to handle the minutia of debits and credits.

If I had to do it again, I'd have found a much shorter book to get me back up to speed and I'll try that with Managerial Accounting.

Well, this is almost as boring as the book...

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful for my bookeeping course

[Viktor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the 2021 edition of this book

[Evan Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect overview for anyone thinking about entering financial accounting or has started without formal training.

[PottWab Regional Library]

SM

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the plot and characters. And that ending, wow! Didn't see that coming. Here’s to hoping it becomes a trilogy/movie adaptation!

[Linda Walters · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction or refresher.

[Farhan Khalifa Ibrahim · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book for someone who wants to learn accounting seriously, but to just know the basic needed for a small business this is too much.

[David Bergvinson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very basic

This topic could be covered more concisely.
It would have been nice to see more detailed examples with size by side narrative.