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Title: Corporate Financial Reporting by E. Richard II Brownlee, Kenneth R Ferris, Mark E Haskins ISBN: 0-07-231636-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 31 July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $92.81 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Fun to Teach
Comment: Here is a secret: the study or practice or accounting may be tedious, but the teaching of accounting is fun. It's about money, power, greed, betrayal -- what's not to like? More particularly, it is one of those courses where students come in bearing such low expectations thaqt their only surprises will be pleasant.
Of all the accounting materials I've been exposed to, none is more fun to teach than this book by Brownlee, Ferris and Haskins. There is an introductory chaper of nuts and bolts. But then, the bulk of the book is made up of case studies in accounting analysis. With bright students (I use it with second- or third-year law students), you can do a whole course from the standing start.
Whenever I teach accounting, I tend to treat it as a "fraud" course--try to find the gimmick. In general, students are uncomfortable with the approach. They tend to think of accountants as nice people and their a not always happy with my seeming cynicism. Post-Enron (and WorldComm, and Adelphia, and Parmalat, etc. etc., etc.), I am tempted to call up all my former students and say -- "See? I was right all along." Meanwhile, it is wonderful to watch the student puzzle over a Brownlee problem and then say (as if with a flash of insight) -- "But that's wrong!" And of course the answer is: "That's why it's in the book."
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book.
Comment: This is an extremely well-written and thoughtful book. The authors take a highly practical and rigorous look at accounting as used in practice by publicly-traded companies. It is an effective integration of accounting principles and real-world financial statement analysis -- helps the reader develop a sense of what is aggressive, what is conservative, etc., and what critical issues are discernible but not immediately obvious from a routine examination of financial statements. A good read for would-be Ben Inkers. For a more basic introduction to accounting, check out books by Robert Anthony.
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Title: Economics: Principles and Policy, Ninth Edition with Infotrac by William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder ISBN: 0030354579 Publisher: South-Western College Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $118.95 |
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Title: Perspectives in Business Ethics by Laura P. Hartman, Laura Pincus Hartman ISBN: 0072314052 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $80.25 |
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Title: Capital Markets: Institutions and Instruments by Frank J. Fabozzi, Franco Modigliani ISBN: 013067334X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $129.00 |
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Title: Principles of Managerial Finance (10th Edition) by Lawrence J. Gitman ISBN: 0201784793 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $127.00 |
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Title: Management : Text with free Real Deal UpGrade CD-ROM by Robert Kreitner ISBN: 0618356916 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $124.76 |
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