I have to learn some accounting rules. I have come accross a book called: Accounting: a balanced approach. I found it on www.jackgardas.com Can someone tell me if it is worth buying?
as you have no doubt found there are many thousands of accountancy texts and each has strengths and weaknesses... Actually, some are just plain useless but we'll cover that when it comes to specifics.
We need a bit more info. What sort of accountancy information are you looking for? How will you be using it?
Fingers crossed your not in a situation where your boss has just decided that there can't be that much to book keeping, read a book and your now the expert!
Give us a few more details, put it into your role context and we'll tell you the best book(s) for your situation.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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Physical books are really good to get you going but I would suggest to try looking for some e-books to save you the money. They are as good, as most are just scanned books. Or you might want to check for more online sources. It is better to get a dynamic view of the course from various concepts. You are better of learning from those materials.
On this one I'm firmly in the give me printed matter camp.
Certainly with electronic books it doesn't help that (a) you pay the same price for a book from Amazon whether it's delivered in paper form or downloaded to your kindle player and (b) you are only paying for permanent rental not ownership.
That last point may come as a surprise to many but for anyone who purchased the George Orwell book 1984 on Kindle it won't as one morning they all came to their Kindle players to find their rights to it had been revoked (couldn't have happened with a more apt book methinks!)... Oh, the money they paid for the book was refunded but that doesn't get around the fact that people thought that they had bought something that was theirs only to find that the reality was quite different.
If you buy a paper book then it is yours to keep and, with accountancy books, to write on and highlight as much as you like. Certainly some of my corporate reporting and audit books have as much of my writing in them as the publishers!
Personally, whilst I appreciate that I could be very wrong on this I think that Kindle is a flash in the pan.
Where I can however see the point of electronic books is in things such as HMRC tax and payroll manuals which last for a year (mostly) and then are out of date.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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Some weeks ago I bought a copy of Business Accounts by David Cox in an attempt to brush up my accounts knowledge and found it very informative. Might be worth a look!
