Comprehensive, graphically pleasing, and expertly constructed; an outstanding teaching and learning tool.
Mostyn’s (Accounting/Mission College) update to his original edition, published in 2007, covers foundational topics of basic accounting in eight sections.
Subjects range from definitions of businesses, corporations, and partnerships to understanding transactions, financial statements, and the use of a basic accounting system. The author explains all concepts in detail, uses a simple, informal style, and enhances the text with many images. The book itself is well-designed—oversized with easy-to-read text that makes exceptional use of a second color to highlight key titles, subheads, and graphics. Each section features individual “Learning Goals” keyed to specific competencies, such as “Analyze Individual Transactions,” “Identify and Prepare a Balance Sheet,” and “Explain the Accounting Cycle.” The Learning Goal chapters are made up of not just text, but also tables, copious examples, tips, and question-and-answer exercises. At the end of each Learning Goal is “Practice,” a test with multiple choice questions and problems to solve. Some sections close with a “Cumulative Test” that assesses the student’s knowledge of the material; answers for the test are provided along with a “Help Table” that assists the student in identifying strengths and weaknesses. Mostyn maintains an authoritative voice throughout but manages to energize the content with unexpected and welcome additions; for example, he employs a three-part “historical fable” to illustrate several accounting principles, inserts cleverly captioned vintage illustrations, and includes a CD with supplemental resources. The purpose of the book is clearly to impart the fundamentals of accounting in a highly structured, step-by-step manner in which every lesson builds on the one before it. In this regard, the book mightily succeeds, almost to the extent of replacing the need for a live instructor.
Comprehensive, graphically pleasing, and expertly constructed; an outstanding teaching and learning tool.Pub Date: Sept. 25, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9914231-0-1
Page Count: 822
Publisher: Worthy and James Publishing
Review Posted Online: Jan. 26, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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