Customer Reviews:
Kreskin is the man.......2001-11-23
Kreskin is the World's Number One mentalist because he knows the business. This is a very good book for fans of Kreskin and fans of mentalism...
A lot of fun..........2000-07-29
...Just like Kreskin's stage act. If you read it in the same spirit, you'll enjoy it immensely. As for the other reviews on this page from Kreskin's "mentalist" competitors who did not enjoy this book, I say "lighten up." Your jealousy is showing. Kerskin's the big name writing the book and you're not, get over it.
The Best, written by the top mentalist in the business!.......1998-05-03
Kreskin delivers the goods once again. He is the biggest name in Mentalism and has appeared in more Television programs that his detractors have watched in their lifetime. A regular guest with Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson, Larry King and others, he knows of what he speaks.
OH PLEASE!.......1997-10-16
Why oh why oh why does Kreskin continue to embarrass himself? Being a professional mentalist myself, I can tell you that not only is the material in this book poor, but Kreskin trying to pass himself off as the "genuine article" is hilarious. Not only is Kreskin himself a fake, but he is so outdated in his performing, that I have to watch him with one eye shut. I saw Kreskin on Regis and Kathy Lee performing a routine out of his new and he screwed it up. Then he did a "real" ESP effect and screwed that up as well. Regis just rolled his eyes along with 5 million viewers. My friend Pablo from Florida even caught on to how Kreskin did his "genuine" effect, and he's a plumber. I think it's finally time to give up Kreskin. It's not all bad though, I hear they are hiring greeters at Wal-Mart.
A review from a professional mentalist.......1997-08-17
Absolute crap. This book is an interesting example of what happens when a performer starts to believe his own hype. Kreskin should undergo an immediate psychiatric evaluation as he is obviously taking himself far too seriously. I have been a full-time professional mentalist for over 20 years and this book is as bad as it gets. Kreskin's condescension is nauseating. He basically states that he produces "genuine phenomenon" and that all other mentalists are fakes. Sorry folks, but Kreskin's a fake too. We are all just entertainers. His book implies powers that he simply does not possess. I've seen him live and I know his methods. If this had been sold as a book of mentalist tricks it would be much better. Instead it is presented as a way of learning to fake what Kreskin can "really do". So I throw the gauntlet down! Come on Kreskin! Show us fakes what you can do! Let's see you produce your "genuine phenomena" for those of us who know how you cheat...I challenge Kreskin to perform for the Toronto Mentalist group "M5" and show us all how great he really is..
Book Description
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean is written for non-accounting students who nevertheless need to understand accounting in order to effectively participate in planning, control, and decision-making. Students learn the basics, from what accounting information is to how managers use it. Marshall's simple, step-by-step approach has made it the leading text in the Survey market. The seventh edition includes new content updates, improved organization, great technology tools, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Wow...that was fast........2007-10-02
Let's just say i was registered for a class on Friday that started on Monday and I got my book on Tuesday without paying an arm and a leg for expedited delivery. I'm really thankful for AMAZON :)
Nice book for beginners.......2007-10-01
This book helped me to understand accounting in a simpler way though my background is engineering. Nice examples and explanations are written in simpler language that everybody can understand.
Not impressed.......2007-09-29
I was not impressed with this book. I found it long-winded and text-y. I was expecting an Accounting-for-non-accountants approach but I couldn't have been more wrong. The more I read this book, the more I wanted to buy another book-- Accounting for Dummies. Thank God for my instructor's supplementary materials for without those, I would truly be lost. Her presentations provide more concise, to-the-point information.
If you are a non-accountant like me and you wish to understand accounting by your own terms, this is definitely not the book for you. Their exercises don't even have quick and available answers.
Excellent Book........2007-09-06
I scored an A in this subject due to the good quality of the book.
Terrible accounting text.......2007-02-26
The textbook is just poorly organized and doesn't begin to prepare you to solve the problems that are given at the end of each chapter. While it defines terms well it also leaves out explanations for most practical applications that are tested for in the problems. There is no way to check your actual work, since even the homework manager only provides solutions and not a detailed methodology as to how the answers were arrived at. It is amazing that this has survived to 7 editions without someone organizing the chapters and the material in some more organized fashion. Unrelated concepts are thrown in at the end of chapters with little explanation. If you want to learn accounting terminology this book is okay. If you want to learn how journal entries are actually recorded line by line look somewhere else. The explanation of debits and credits is perfunctory. This is not written as an entry level accounting text for non accountants.
Book Description
Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can’t read a balance sheet, wouldn’t recognize a liquidity ratio, and don’t know how to calculate return on investment. Worse, they don’t have any idea where the numbers come from or how reliable they really are.
In Financial Intelligence, Karen Berman and Joe Knight teach the basics of finance—but with a twist. Financial reporting, they argue, is as much art as science. Since nobody can quantify everything, accountants always rely on estimates, assumptions, and judgment calls. Savvy managers need to know how those sources of possible bias can affect the financials—and they need to know that sometimes the numbers can be challenged.
While providing the foundation for a deep understanding of the financial side of business, the book also arms managers with practical strategies for improving their companies’ performance—strategies such as “managing the balance sheet” that are well understood by financial professionals but rarely shared with their nonfinancial colleagues.
Accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories of real companies, Financial Intelligence will help nonfinancial managers be smarter and more confident in their everyday work.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book ... for beginners only.......2007-06-10
If you have some understanding of finance - even basic - don't expect to learn anything out of this book. I was expecting much more than that given the target audience - "managers" - and the publisher. I doubt that in today's world, a manager wouldn't have some sort of understanding of finance. Nonetheless, the book is well written, explained and organized. I had my analyst read it as an introduction and he liked it a lot.
Clear, interesting, fun.......2007-03-30
I had to buy this book for a fiscal management class. It is probably one of the best management books that I've read. It is really clear. I don't really have a head for finance, but this book makes it simple and entertaining. There are lots of examples from real life. This is a great book if you want to know more about financial vocabulary and basics. Also might be a good brushup, though I was starting from scratch so I wouldn't know.
A good beginning..........2007-03-10
This is an overview of what to look for in balance sheet and income statement as a manager. However, better information resides with cost based accounting around activities(ABC/M). This book is an excellent read for simple information. Not bad for the price!
Fun with managerial accounting.......2007-01-09
I really enjoyed reading "Financial Intelligence" by Karen Berman and Joe Knight. The authors use a fairly casual tone (often humorous) to combine a semester's worth of managerial accounting with a healthy dose of private sector application. The book is a quick read and should be great as an introduction to managerial accounting or a refresher for anyone responsible for managing a P/L at any level.
Very valuable!.......2006-11-11
I highly recommend this book! It's an easy read for non-accountants! This should be in every manager's desk for quick reference. This has helped me a lot in making day-to-day decisions.
Book Description
Ideal for a survey course, this text is written to meet the needs of non-accountants who need to gain a basic understanding of how to use accounting information and make financial decisions. The reader is introduced to basic concepts such as: what accounting information is, what it means, and how it is used. Students are exposed to financial statements and learn what they do and do not communicate. This text covers financial and managerial accounting concepts. A complete annual report is included in an appendix.
Customer Reviews:
Seems intentionally confusing.......2007-03-25
I'm just starting a class that requires this book. I don't have a financial background. The book is confusing. It seems like the chapters outline basic principles. However, when it comes to doing the homework problems, the text asks things that were poorly covered and/or obscure.
I wish I didn't have to take this class and could get my money back.
Trish.......2006-02-27
I gave this book one star because there are no negative numbers available. The other reviews here are all true! This is a horrible textbook that jumps from subject to subject quickly, gives simplistic examples in the chapter and then throws complex homework problems with new components not explained in the chapter--oh and don't let me forget to mention that the terminology changes from chapter to homework as well! A friend with two masters (business and engineering) became so frustrated trying to help with a problem that he threw his hands up. The terminology kept throwing him off.
If you are supposed to buy this text I suggest you either show these to college administration ahead of time, or take another class. This is so bad I won't even sell mine back. I'm throwing it in my grill to burn.
This text is terrible.......2005-11-16
This book lacks effective structure, or comprehensible structure at least, and the writing is both tedious and meandering. Many of the examples are minimally useful and some are only vaguely associated to the concepts they are meant to support. Useless! This book wasted the time I had taken from my family to study accounting. Why would anyone select this text for a graduate level class???
What a waste of money.......2005-10-17
This textbook is fullllllll of inaccuracies. Additionally, the author gets some sort of sick thrill from giving really simple, insufficient examples in the chapters, and then giving over-the-top difficult questions in the homework. This author also loves to ramble and make this already tedious subject just as incomprehensible as he can possibly make it. My husband is a CFO and could NOT believe how horrible this book is. It's that bad. Students should demand that a different textbook be required.
Very confusing text.......2005-02-09
I found this textbook to be very confusing. It doesn't spend enough time elaborating on each topic before it moves on to the next.
Book Description
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean, 6e, by Marshall/McManus/Viele is written to meet the needs of those students who will not be accountants but who do need to understand accounting, the language of business, in order to effectively participate in activities such as planning, control, and decision- making. Marshall takes readers through the basics: what accounting information is, what it means, and how it is used. In using this text, students examine financial statements and discover what they do and do not communicate. This enables them to gain the crucial decision-making and problem-solving skills they need in order to succeed in a professional environment.
Customer Reviews:
Accounting: What the numbers mean........2007-03-09
With a college degree under my belt this is the best Text Book I've ever had!
The worst book from McGraw Hill Publisher I've ever seen!.......2006-02-18
McGraw Hill put a lot of efforts in order to compensate for the indigestible content, but unfortunately they could not compensate for that and their good design merely created an illusion that the book is on an acceptable level.
I had this book for one of my online accounting classes and the whole class was crying from that. It felt that one author wrote the text, another one wrote the content of exercises, and third one wrote quizzes. All of them did not talk to each other during the whole process. As a result, when you read the text, you feel like you understand everything, but when you do exercises or respond to quiz questions, you can miss around 90% easily.
We demanded that our university should withdraw this textbook from the program. After this book, those who wanted to become accountants, changed their mind, that how bad this book is.
Clear and specific.......2005-08-07
Let alone for those who concentrate in accounting, even for students concentrated in other fields, this book is really clear and specific.
poorly organized.......2005-07-07
The book looks great, but when you begin to study it, you realize that it is poorly constructed. For example, the study guide that accompanies the book gives the answers to every other problem, which is nice. The problem is that the answers are for the easier of the two questions (the book is constructed so that every two questions are similar). So when you are trying to teach yourself the material, you finally get the answer to the question that is given ane then you are faced with a more difficult question, for which there is no answer. Then when you look at the learning objectives, which are listed in the margin next to each question, you find that there is NOTHING in the learning objective, no sample problem, that will help you. It is frustrating to say the least... Perhaps the next edition will be better.
Book Description
Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
Customer Reviews:
Don't bother.......2007-07-26
Don't waste your money.
The textbook provides great summaries at the end of each chapter. This is loaded with numerous definitions but the structure has no logic and it's difficult to find information quickly. It's inexpensive, so, if you want to err on the side of caution, go ahead and buy it but it'll only end up collecting dust on your desk.
Book Description
A user-friendly guide for managers, investors and students of business who want to be able to read, understand, interpret and use accounting information, without learning to be accountants. It describes in non-technical language everything a business person needs to know about how the numbers are created, what they mean and how they can be used.
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