Accounting For Dummies

By John A. Tracy

Book Overview

Not everyone is cut out to be a professional accountant. But thanks to Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition you can get a handle on the financial aspects of your business, investments, or taxes. Accounting professor and author John A. Tracy sheds light on the mysteries of Generating income statements and balance sheets Establishing budgets, controlling profit and cash flow, stemming losses, and managing inventory Evaluating profit margins - and identifying ways to increase them Making financial decisions that keep investors, creditors, and managers satisfied Reading financial reports Surviving an audit and using the results to improve your accounting system Putting the latest computer technology to work to help you manage the bottom line If you've steered clear of accounting because you thought it incomprehensible by mere mortals, prepare to be enlightened. Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition empowers you with knowledge you can't afford to be without.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764553143
• ISBN13: 9780764553141
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book

this is a great book I have learned lots from this book thank you.

No good

I ordered this book on accounting to help me with my accounting class. It was absolutely no use. Everything that I looked up that I was doing an accounting class was not available in this book. I’ve come to the conclusion that the dummies series or not worth your time

Helpful Book!

Great book. It helped me understand accounting and it was easy to pick up the tricks and the trades of this course.

Very Good book for Financial and Mangerial Accounting

This is a great book for a person to use to suplment what is learned and practiced in Both entry level college accounting classes. It really will help you get a better grade in the class by reinforcing and explainations that are different then your typical college textbook. I highly reccomend this book for any college student that will be taking accounting, it is well worth it's price and I believe if read during the semester along with the practice in your class you will get a better grade. I did.

Not for you if your looking for a bookkeeping treatise.

This book is great (I mean great) if you need to understand what is profit, whats in a balance sheet, how to understand it, whats in an income statement. What are assets, etc, etc. This book will open your eyes. Like others have said its not about double entry bookkeeping, or how to prepare your balance sheet. Find that elsewhere. This book addresses what the numbers mean and how to follow them to come to conclusions and how to use that information.Let me put it this way. If you have a small business, or are put into a position where you need to manage money for a business, or need to buy a business. This book will help you if your not accountant savy.Its a great book, and is very well written. Another five star success for the dummies series.