You would be espechially interested in ACCA paper F2 which is basic management accounting and F3 which is basic financial accounting and also double entry bookkeeping.
Its free to join opentuition which you need to do to download the lecture notes.
There are also CIMA and AAT resources on there.
For ebooks just download kindle from Amazon and most major titles come also come as an electronic version.
Personally I hate ebooks and love my library of paper text. (7 large bookcases full and still growing).
For more info on free stuff have a look at this thread :
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I do agree with you regarding paper texts (though I haven't quite got 7 bookkaases of bookkeeping books). Evolution has gone to all the trouble of giving us swivelling eyeballs plus peripheral vision and index fingers (to keep our place in the book index, naturally) while the satanic powers are trying to claim our concentration by limiting our field of view to a patch which is a mere few square inches in area. It's a plot, a conspiracy ...
No, give me books which flop open, which I can riffle through to see how chapters, and the topics themselves, hang together. That allow me to see big diagrams and big spreadsheets unconstrained by screen size. Allow me to search and read two related but separate topics at once - open two books on my capaciously cluttered multiple-square-foot desks: one fixed, one moveable. Open three books, why not? New books that smell new and old books that smell old. A bit like me, maybe ...
Allow me to read and compare texts from different, competing publishers at the same time. To be able to refer back to earlier texts of older volumes - superceded but still on the shelf and un-deleted, to appreciate how things have changed andm, maybe, why my clients' ideas about this allowance and that are so strange ...
I do view and download e-texts and webpages but it's my printer, sitting obediently behind me, that really releases their benefits ...
And all this at the risk of being a teensy off-topic .. is it Spring yet?
Well, in my view that post just won you a million brownie points Andy.
Sounds as though we have a very similar outlook in relation to printed text compared to e-books.
On the whole how things have changed. My view is that the early ACCA papers (F1 to F3) have a lot less in them now than they did back in 2002, AAT texts are cut down versions of the ACCA ones and BPP ACCA study text lost their way in 2007... Just nice as you say to be able to compare and contrast.
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I have never managed to read a e-book further than the first 2 pages. I have bought quite a few over the years, and never wanted to go back and finish them. Most will not allow printing, as if they did, I would print it out and then read it!
I am reading "Hayak - The road to serdom" at the moment. Its a bit heavy going in places (he was obviously and acedemic and it shows ), but it is easier to pick up and go back to a book than a e-book. It was written in 1944 and still relevant. I also have found in the past with software updates, that I could access the e-book even if I wanted to.
I have a few "tax tips" available to purchase on my website. Although they are supplied in pdf form, I made sure that they can be printed out as sometimes a printed copy is easier to read.
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Somewhat newer than yours. The last serious non accounting book that I read was the Gulag Archipelago (Solzenhitsyn).... Makes a change from it being things like Room on the Broom and Green eggs and Ham which were my primary reading materials once my boy got a grasp of English and realised that the ACCA manuals that I was reading him as bedtime stories just didn't cut the mustard.
like yourself I've got a few ebooks, mostly freebies.
I did read one from cover to cover by an American bookkeeper giving their experiences from the other side of the pond.
Usual Quickbooks / Peachtree (sage) choice (but not a detail on use use sort of book, just why they went the way that they did (QB)). Interesting differences are things such as the way that payroll has become totally seperated from bookkeeping and that there is real differentiation between bookkeepers and accountants over there.
The above aside though, as with yourself electronic delivery of my reading medium is just not for me.
And look on the bright side, one minor solar flare that knocks out the electricity and we with the sense to have books will be rich... well, there may be some other criteria to factor in there...
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I love my kindle for fiction but when it comes to reference books or my study texts I much prefer the paper version as its much easier to flick to the pages I need.
