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From: Amazon
Posted: Jan-25-2009

fun and informative

I purchased several copies of this book to use in business literacy training for employees at my organization. It helped the rank-and-file to understand the numbers on the financial statements and what they can help to improve them. The authors did a great job of taking a complex topic and...

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Posted: Dec-31-2008

Excellent place to start

This book is an excellent place to start if you are going to be taking any accounting classes or attempting to pass the accounting clep. It will give you a solid foundation to build upon while you try to learn the new concepts that will most certainly be foreign to you if you don't have any prior...

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Posted: Nov-26-2008

So simple -- and so fun!

Before I read this book, I knew close to nothing about accounting. This book gave all the basics and provided helpful insight to managing a small business through accounting. The workbook-like sytle gets you involved with the subject and makes the learning process actually FUN! I recommend...

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Posted: Sep-23-2008

Loved it!

This was a great review for accounting... I haven't been in the accounting industry for a while and needed to brush up and this was an educational and fun approach.

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Posted: Aug-07-2008

Good introductory overview

This book provided exactly what I wanted - a good introduction to the basics of accounting. If you want to understand the basics of accounting without having to take a college course on it or wading through a 500-page, jargon-filled textbook, or if you want a book to supplement a college textbook...

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jul-16-2008

not really what I was hoping for

Based on the majority of reviews here, I was hoping this would be neither too simplistic nor too dry. Unfortunately, its too simplistic, and also, since it uses a story-based layout, it is essentially worthless as a reference. What I was hoping for an easy-to-understand reference about...

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jul-09-2008

Great Introduction to Accounting!

It's a good introduction to accounting..but you definitely need more than this book if you want to become an accountant ;-)

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jun-25-2008

Read this one first - but don't stop there!

This book is great for people who don't have any experience or general understanding of accounting. A few months ago I was hired as an office assistant, even though I had no office or bookkeeping experience. Quickbooks was an enigma to me for a while, although it's definitely getting better.It...

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From: Amazon
Posted: Feb-10-2008

Great Beginning book

I bought this book for my team. Many had never taken an accounting course and they seemed to really pick up the terms and concepts addressed in this book. Easy reading with accounting basics and uses a topic we all can relate to, a lemonade stand!

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