Financial Accounting For Dummies (For Dummies

by Maire Loughran

Learn to speak fluent finance―and ace your exams! Warren Buffett said that "accounting is the language of business." And for many accounting and business students, the obscure terminology of accounting makes fluency hard to achieve. Financial Accounting For Dummies can help to demystify abstract concepts in a straightforward, friendly way. With step-by-step examples and real-world scenarios practice, it helps you grasp the fundamentals of accounting until you're ready to interpret, analyze, and evaluate corporate financial statements like you've been doing it all your life. Packed with easy-to-understand examples, this book takes you from the big three financial statements all the way through to income taxes. Or join the anti-fraud squad by discovering how to spot the ten most common accounting shenanigans. Whether you're studying for your bachelor's, MBA, or MAcc, you’ll find everything you need to speak the language of finance like a native―and use it to get to wherever you want to go!

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

384 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.