Book Description
ADVANCED ACCOUNTING offers the most authoritative, conceptually strong, and comprehensive coverage of advanced accounting topics of any text on the market. Completely updated to reflect the latest FASB pronouncements, it is an excellent preparation resource for the CPA exam. ADVANCED ACCOUNTING also provides the tools students need to pursue professional careers in a global economy. This is the only text on the market to utilize the horizontal approach to consolidations worksheets, the format most commonly used in the business world.
Customer Reviews:
Advanced Accounting.......2006-11-03
The text itself is fairly understandable, current and consistant. The problems are mostly with the exercises, problems and on-line supplements and quizes, especially for the government and to a lesser extent, the non-profit accounting chapters. Not all of the wordings and answers in these areas have been updated to the current GASB 34 and 35 statements that the text is teaching to. This is a difficult topic to begin with and having these conflicts makes it that much more difficult to grasp the material correctly.
Customer Reviews:
Decent Working Papers.......2003-03-24
These are basic working papers to do your problems on. Their are no examples or anything to help explain. However the paper has the correct number of spaces for some problems which can help make sure you gain find all the information in the problem.
Book Description
For College Accounting and Bookkeeping courses. Available in two different volumes; Chapter 1-25 fits best in a two semester course where as the Chapter 1-12 version is best for the one semester courses.
This is the College Accounting book that focuses on getting back to the basics of Accounting.
Customer Reviews:
A must have for Accounting.......2007-05-13
This is a must have item. Very helpful in completing assignments.
Excellent Service.......2007-03-09
The product arrived in a timely manner and I am very pleased with my purchase.
Principles of Accouting: Working Papers for Exercises and Problem Vol 1.......2005-09-07
Book in Excelent condition. Shipment received quickly. Everything was great
Book Description
The Traditional Working Papers include problem-specific forms for preparing solutions for Exercises, A&B Problems, the Continuing Problem, and the Comprehensive Problems from the textbook. These forms, with preprinted headings, provide a structure for the problems, which helps students get started and saves them time. Additional blank forms are included.
Book Description
Working Papers provide students with formatted templates to aid them in doing homework assignments.
This resource is for use with both Williams' Financial Accounting 13e and Financial & Managerial Accounting 14e text.
Customer Reviews:
Study Guide and Working Papers for use with Advanced Acounting.......2007-02-18
I did not find this study guide very useful.
Study Guide a must!.......2007-01-07
I always do much better in my accounting classes if I use the Study Guides and this is no exception. A must in my book.
Book Description
The Gateway to the Profession
990f surveyed practicing accountants feel that Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield's Intermediate Accounting helped prepare them for success in professional practice.
100% would recommend the text to someone currently studying for an accounting degree.
80aid they referred to their copy when they first entered professional practice.
Professionals who learned accounting from Intermediate Accounting find themselves well prepared to enter the workplace. So well prepared in fact, that many keep their copy of the text to refer to again and again. Why is this text so essential for professional success?
* Currency--This 12th edition of Intermediate Accounting reflects the state-of-the-art in accounting today. The text is kept current with the Intermediate Accounting Newsletter, a periodical for users of the text that spotlights the very latest developments and their implications.
* Real-world examples and illustrations--Numerous examples from real corporations help you understand exactly how professionals apply accounting principles and techniques. International Insight notes compare accounting practices in other countries.
* Hands-on practice--This 12th edition features Professional Simulation problems, modeled on the new computerized exam. In addition, new accounting research exercises help you practice using the Financial Accounting Research Database System (FARS).
* Comprehensive and clear explanations of concepts--The authors' clear writing style and logical organization help you understand the material.
Make Kieso your gateway to the profession!
Book Description
Available to help instruct students in solving all assignment material. Each chapter also contains one set of papers that can be used for either the A or B problem sets.
Average customer rating:
- Dissapointing Book
- Today's Key Management Challenges
- A very basic overview of Hiring and Retaining
- want money? read it
- STRENGTH IN ITS SCOPEýALL WAYS OF LEVERAGING HUMAN CAPITAL.
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Beyond Productivity: How Leading Companies Achieve Superior Performance by Leveraging Their Human Capital
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If companies don't want to be devoured by the lions in today's knowledge-driven, competitive business arena, they must do two things--develop and retain the "best and brightest" people (their human capital), then use their other resources (financial, technological, physical, etc.) to create an organization where these people can excel.
Based on extensive research, Beyond Productivity reveals how dozens of top firms, as well as "up and coming" ones, are doing just that--and leaping ahead of their competition. Readers will learn how organizations such as Microsoft, FedEx, Motorola, Southwest Airlines, Citibank:
* recruit, select, develop, and retain the best available talent * design core business processes to most effectively utilize these employees, skills and talents * facilitate individual and organizational learning * foster an environment that values cooperation, but also encourages risk-taking and initiative * make optimum use of technology, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Dissapointing Book.......2001-02-16
This book is basically a summary of a whole bunch of management books. None of the ideas offered any new insights into productivity.
In certain chapters of the book, the author(s) lack of real-world experience is clearly visible. From my years of experience in human-resource management, I find many of the ideas and suggestions offered in the book are already well known management methods that do not work in today's world. At best, the book is suitable for the consumption of naive business students.
Does not deserve the 4 star rankings. Who wrote the earlier reviews? The authors?
Today's Key Management Challenges.......2000-05-29
"For most of the twentieth century, the primary tools for the creation of wealth were physical: land, natural resources, human labor, and machines. The worth of a company was determined in large measure by the sum of its tangible resources." Gregory G. Dess and Joseph C. Picken write, "In recent years, however, companies like Microsoft, PeopleSoft, America Online, and Amazon.com have turned this model inside out. These companies, dealing in software and services and built on a foundation of intellectual capital with little or no tangible investment, have created extraordinary value for their investors, far in excess of the worth of their physical and financial assets. Traditional industries based on tangible assets, such as oil, autos, steel, and financial services, have lagged far behind, reinforcing the argument that value is determined not by the sum of an organization's resources but by how efficiently those resources are used and redeployed into new opportunities over time...(Thus, today) management faces two key challenges. The first is to address the quality and capabilities of the human capital resource itself: to recruit, develop, and retain the best talent available. The second is to design and configure the organization's structural capital- the key processes and structures that link its human, knowledge and information, and tangible resources to each other and to its core value-creating processes- so as to maximize the potential and performance of the entire entity. Our focus throughout this book is on how leading companies are meeting these challenges in a changing competitive environment" (from the Preface).
In this context, in Chapter One, they firstly define two key management challenges:
I. Structural Capital: They argue that the principal role of structural capital is to link the resources of the organization together into processes that create value for customers and sustainable competitive advantage for the firm. And hence, they identify key components of structural capital as follows:
1. Core Value-Creating Activities
* Core business processes
* External relationship with customers, suppliers, and alliance partners
* Reputation, brand loyalty, image, and legitimacy
2. Organizational Structure, Systems, Processes, and Culture
* Organizational and reporting structures
* Operating systems, processes, procedures, and task designs
* Information and communications infrastructures
* Resource acquisition, development, and allocation systems
* Decision processes and information flows
* Incentives, controls, and performance measurement systems
* Mechanisms to promote sharing, collaboration, and organizational learning
* Organizational culture, values, and leadership
II. Human Capital: They argue that our definition of human capital focused primarily on capabilities, knowledge, skills, and experience, all of them embodied in and inseparable from the individual. And hence, they identify eight key categories, or elements, of human capital as follows:
1. Motor skills: The ability to grasp, place, move, and manipulate objects in coordinated movements
2. Information-gathering (perceptual) skills: Sensory, perceptual, and interpretative capabilities
3. Information-processing (cognitive) skills: The ability to reason, analyze, and make decisions
4. Communication skills: The ability to listen, communicate, and share information and ideas
5. Experience: Know-how from having done the task before
6. Knowledge: Knowledge of self, the job, the organization, and the environment
7. Social skills: The ability to interface, coordinate, and collaborate productively with others
8. Values, beliefs, and attitudes: Personal values that shape perceptions, performance, and attitudes
I highly recommend to executives and HR practitioners.
A very basic overview of Hiring and Retaining.......2000-04-20
Not helpful for someone who knows a lot about hiring, recruiting, and retaining. It has nice concepts, but most would be difficult to apply without completely changing the organizational culture. There are a few nice tables and diagrams, and the paper is nice, but that hardly adds up to its being a great buy.
want money? read it.......1999-12-07
business is not an easy philosophy. without conscience this book pulls you into the western world developed by money. {technology, power, advancement} vs. {values, ethics, brotherly love} this has been such a challenge to me living in various countries. am I majoring computer science and international studies because of plainly money? is that all I can be? computer is merely an application, not a culture itself. this book talks too much on solving in a western point of view which is a vice to the future economy of America. To survive at least for the next 10 years, people have to start thinking and encouraging others of facing world wide issues related to different cultures around the world. This is a GREAT BOOK! Yet, the reader should acknowledge the limit the author is drawing your attention to.
STRENGTH IN ITS SCOPEýALL WAYS OF LEVERAGING HUMAN CAPITAL........1999-04-23
The authors explore the ways that successful firms meet competitive challenges. The book begins by presenting an historical perspective and a conceptual framework consisting of: (1) human capital, (2) organization knowledge and resources, (3) physical and financial resources, (3) core value-creating activities (business processes, relationships with customers, suppliers and alliance partners, and reputation, brand loyalty, image and legitimacy), and (5) organizational structure, systems, processes, and culture. Chapters then focus on: recruiting, developing and retaining human capital; applying technology to leverage human capital; designing organization; incentives and controls; and leadership and creating a learning organization. This eclectic book, while emphasizing human capital, tackles ways to build a more effective and competitive organization. In short, the book's primary strength is its scope, which goes delves into all areas that affect the leveraging of human capital. Reviewed by Yvette Borcia, co-founder, Stern & Associates, co-author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.
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