Author: Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Terry D. Warfield
Price: $172.54
Price: $172.54
Customer Reviews
The Age-Old Kieso Problem
Except for having to buy it new, there are reasons to like the Kieso series including this 13th edition of Intermediate Accounting, which is really Financial Accounting II. These authors have done everything to make the subject progressively more accessible in each edition. I know as I suffered through the courses once too.
I have a master's in accounting and am a CPA. It's surprising how many accounting texts assume the student has certain prerequisite skills and knowledge and equally surprising how so many accounting professors want to lecture on what enhances their knowledge base instead of teaching to the student. The Kieso books are really teaching books. I buy used recent editions for myself just for reference since they're so well done and so cheap. Not all CPAs do that but I practice financial accounting.
Note, if you need the WileyPlus access code, it is NOT included with this book. If your professor makes you get the code, you've got to spend even more money. You get this access code at the Wileyplus website. A kind student emailed me that the code now costs $83.50 at the site. Wiley also puts in place separate deals with some but not all college bookstores, although then the prices vary a lot at the college bookstore level. Sometimes, depending on how the professor intends to use the WileyPlus resource, you might just ask the professor and get the code, but those cases are rare.
A word of caution and encouragement: This Intermediate Accounting course along with the first one, Financial Accounting, are the two that were traditionally used to weed out students from becoming accounting majors. You've got to spend a lot more time on this course than you usually would for a typical course. Good luck - I wish you the best!
Unreliable book- avoid this text book
I found this book to be unreliable because of all the contents that are crammed into two volumes with extra information on codification. The context of the book would seem to target an audience of people with prior experiences in accounting than students - not student friendly. Although Wiley has been very successful in the past, they have certainly lost touch with students and the use of technology.
The two volumes of this book contain short excerpts of basic concepts such as stocks, PP&E, current, long-term liabilities, etc. The examples are buried in the sentences, examples are hard to follow, and verbose. Along with all the words, and hours of untangling the words; a very short example follows. The examples however, are not enough to satisfy the unique problems assigned in the Problems and Exercise section.
Intermediate Accounting - Used Book
If I didn't know it, I would say the book was brand new. The price was great, I received the book ahead of the scheduled due date and the packaging remained intact during shipment. I highly recommend this seller.
