Advanced Accounting (9th Edition) (Advanced Accounting)

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This readable examination of accounting theory and practice offers extensive real-world examples and illustrations throughout—from corporations such as Microsoft, Coca Cola, Hershey Foods, IBM, General Motors, and General Electric. A book-specific Website is available that contains less-frequently covered topics, additional exercises, links to additional references, and more. Is updated for the latest FASB pronouncements including Business Combinations, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. Focuses on parent company accounting using the full or complete equity method in coverage of consolidations. Offers separate coverage of parent company accounting under the cost and incomplete equity methods. Adds a chapter on governmental and not-for-profit accounting. The perfect reference for accounting professionals looking to check facts or brush up on their skills.

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Need more examples -- rely on website?.......2007-07-15

As a student I found this book's transaction examples to be somewhat limited. For instance, in the existing-foreign-currency-transaction hedge examples, both cash-flow and fair-value, only A/R adjustments are treated, there are no *buy side* transactions with A/P illustrated. There are also a lot of minor errors that are distracting.

A better text is available.......2006-07-05

As background for dissusion of the Beams "Advanced Accounting" text, 9th ed.: I took advanced accounting at one university last summer (which covered much of advanced accounting, but no accounting for not-for-profit organizations). Due to scheduling availability, I am taking advanced accounting at a different university this summer...this class WILL cover not-for-profit accounting issues, which is why I am taking it. We used the Hoyle, Schaefer, Doupnik "Advanced Accounting" 7th ed. text last year, and even though the concepts were difficult, the examples assisted greatly, and the text was clear, organized and without noticeable errors.

I wish the same could be said of the Beams "Advanced Accounting" 9th ed. Currently in my study of the fourth chapter, I find the text frequently wanders off topic, and contains surprising errors. For example, on page 106 (Chapt.4), it makes a math error ($30,000 - $1,500 x 80% = $22,500). My calculator indicates the answer should be $22,800. On page 107 it attributes a $93.5k elimination to "Entry b" described on page 106, when the amount actually belongs to "Entry c", described on the same page. This type of error requires the reader to perform a lot of additional work to get to the bottom of the information to be acquired. These are just two of the numerous issues I have uncovered in study of only four chapters. So far, the text compares poorly to the Hoyle, et. al. product, sadly, (which is why I am providing this warning) and I am not looking forward to the rest of the current summer semester!

Please, Prentice Hall, thoroughly review and edit this text before the next edition, and give students their money's worth.

errors all over.......2004-05-16

This text should correct all the errors before it published.

solution for the excercises.......2000-07-01

it is a very good book actually, but i'm having some difficulties in solving the exercise, so i think this book need a complementary book or some kind of manual or solution. But if there is, I would like to be informed about where i can get that kind of book. Thank U!

Advanced accounting.......2000-04-05

I used this book as my self-study material and I benefited from this book a lot. I would recommend using it either as a textbook for Advanced Accounting course or as a reference book for professionals. Here are the few points that I would like to share with you:

1. Logical order The order to display the topics in this book is logical and consistent. This is important for self-study users. At the beginning of each chapter, there's always a paragraph or two summarize the main points that are going to present in the chapter. This gives the reader a whole picture.

2. Clear explanation and examples The book uses easy explanatory languages and the examples are very representative. Each example, the author is showing us every detail steps, so it is easy to follow.

3. Relevant exercises and problems. At the end of each chapter, there are questions that can help to reinforce the concepts. Most questions can be found directly from the material. There are also exercises and problems that are related to the topic presented in the chapter. I remember there is an accounting book I used before that the problems required more knowledge than the chapter actually covered. This not the case in this book. Some of the examples in the chapter could be used as quick reference while working on the problems, too.

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In response to market demand, Principles of Taxation Advanced Strategies was developed to provide coverage of advanced tax topics. This book is ideal for students who studied Jones, Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning in their introductory course. The two textbooks provide an integrated two-semester sequence of topics that represent a complete educational package for tax students. Nevertheless, Advanced Strategies is written in a self-contained manner. While its approach is consistent with Principles, the technical content builds on knowledge that students should know from their introductory tax course, regardless of the textbook used. Advanced Strategies explores the tax consequences of many sophisticated business, financial, and personal wealth-planning transactions. Each transaction is presented in an economic or legal context, and the non-tax motives of the transacting parties are examined before the tax issues are identified. The discussion of tax issues emphasizes the development and implementation of strategies to make transactions as tax efficient as possible to all parties involved. Many of the tax strategies are analyzed in terms of their impact on net cash flows and on the income statements and balance sheets of the transacting parties.

Advanced Strategies in Taxation, Fourth Edition

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Advanced Strategies in Taxation, Fourth Edition
Sally Jones , Shelley C. Rhoades-Catanach , and Shelley Rhoades-Catanach
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In response to market demand, Principles of Taxation: Advanced Strategies, by Sally Jones and Shelley Rhoades-Catanach, was developed to provide coverage of advanced tax topics. This book is ideal for students who studied Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning in their introductory tax course. The two textbooks provide an integrated two-semester sequence of topics that represent a complete educational package for tax students. Nevertheless, Advanced Strategies is written in a self-contained manner. While its approach is consistent with Principles, the technical content builds on knowledge that students should know from their introductory tax course, regardless of the textbook used. Advanced Strategies explores the tax consequences of many, sophisticated business, financial, and personal wealth-planning transactions.The discussion of tax issues emphasizes the development and implementation of strategies to make transactions as tax efficient as possible to all parties involved. Many of the tax strategies are analyzed in terms of their impact on net cash flows and on the income statements and balance sheets of the transacting parties.

Advanced Wealth Transfer Under New Tax Laws: Case Studies Simplify Sophisticated Strategies to Reduce Estate Taxes

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Advanced Wealth Transfer Under New Tax Laws: Case Studies Simplify Sophisticated Strategies to Reduce Estate Taxes
Richard E. Haas
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Great resource.......2000-07-05

This books includes alot of great, sound information, and is detailed enough to allow a person to discuss the options with their attorney/CPA. It does not provide enough info to allow the nonprofessional to draft any documents. A little disappointed that nearly all of the wealth transfer techniques deal with CRTs. However, they are described in the context of their application in different scenarios, which provides a clear illustration of their benefits (which are significant). In summary, this book provided a number (about a dozen) great ideas for using ones assets to generate income while alive and transferring the assets to children with reduced estate taxes.

West Federal Taxation 2006: Advanced Business Entities

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William A. Raabe , Eugene Willis , David M. Maloney , and James E. Smith
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Edited by authors of the market-leading WEST FEDERAL TAX SERIES, the 2006 Edition of ADVANCED BUSINESS ENTITY TAXATION provides thorough and adequate coverage of all relevant tax codes and regulations, emphasizing the high-interest and multidisciplinary aspects of taxation for the second tax course. Designed with the AICPA model tax curriculum in mind, this text presents the second federal taxation course from a business entity perspective. It is an ideal follow-up to WFT: TAXATION OF BUSINESS ENTITIES or any first course in taxation that uses the business entities approach. This course is intended for accounting or finance majors who take it to fulfill curriculum requirements, and for students likely to sit for the CPA or CFA Exams.

Principles of Taxation: Advanced Strategies, 2002 Edition

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Principles of Taxation: Advanced Strategies, 2002 Edition
Sally M. Jones , and Shelley C. Rhoades-Catanach
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In response to market demand, Principles of Taxation Advanced Strategies was developed to provide coverage of advanced tax topics. This book is ideal for students who studied Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning in their introductory course. The two textbooks provide an integrated two-semester sequence of topics that represent a complete educational package for tax students. Nevertheless, Advanced Strategies is written in a self-contained manner. While its approach is consistent with Principles, the technical content builds on knowledge that students should know from their introductory tax course, regardless of the textbook used. Advanced Strategies explores the tax consequences of many sophisticated business, financial, and personal wealth-planning transactions. Each transaction is presented in an economic or legal context, and the nontax motives of the transacting parties are examined before the tax issues are identified. The discussion of tax issues emphasizes the development and implementation of strategies to make transactions as tax efficient as possible to all parties involved. Many of the tax strategies are analyzed in terms of their impact on net cash flows and on the income statements and balance sheets of the transacting parties.

Customer Reviews:

Dry, Overpriced, Adequate Information.......2007-04-26

Like many textbooks, this one is rather dry. Sometimes it seems that there must be some special training course that authors for textbooks must complete to learn how to be so uninteresting. Also, like virtually all college texts, it is extremely overpriced. The textbook industry seems like a great big scam. It is always cranking out new books with relatively little new information but great big price tags.

The text is adequate. The material it contains is accurate and understandable.

If you need this book, I recommend finding a used copy.

Horrible Reading.......2005-04-21

My teacher assigned this book for my Labor Relations course and I wish he picked out a better book. The definitions are awful and you have to read them like 3 times until you fully understand what information the book is trying to provide. There was one part that really made me think that this book was thrown together in a couple of minutes. One sentence in this book stated that, "Southwest airlines was not unionized." My aviation management teacher saw something wrong with this statement because Southwest is heavily unionized. I think the author had a particular issue in his life and was trying to smurf it off in his book. This book is definately not for beginning students, unless you have time to decifer what the author is trying to say..... I could talk more about how terrible this book is, but I think you get the point
P.S. There were some really bad run on sentences in this book

One of the worst textbooks around.......2005-03-28

Normally I don't have problems reading the texts schools use but this one is the worst book I've ever had to read. My instructor provided outlines of each chapter that were provided by the author. Without those I would not have been able to make heads or tails of this book.The author needs to ake this book less dry and more learning friendly.

Dry Reading.......2003-01-27

Sometimes books can't help but to cover dry material. This book does not excell past being extremely dry. The book is well documented, thorough, and comprehensive. The eight edition is aesthically pleasing, but still does not seem to achieve the ability to make itself an easy read. I would highly recommend another book for this study, or using this one as background information for study.

Acca 3.2 Advanced Taxation Revision Kit (Acca Revision)

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ACCA 3.2: Advanced Taxation - Finance Act 2002: Study Text (ACCA Study Text)

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ACCA Paper 3.2 Advanced Taxation FA 2004 (Acca Study Text)

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