by Judith Orloff, Darrell Mullis
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"Fantastic Learning Tool...Don't let this book title fool you. It is not an oversimplification of accounting and financial principles. It is, however, a serious and very effective examination of a very small but progressively complex business. There are not many books available on the market that make a complex and dry subject understandable and even fun. This book successfully does just that."
-Amazon Reviewer
The Clearest Explanation Ever of the Key Accounting Basics
The world of accounting can be intimidating. Whether you're a manager, business owner or aspiring entrepreneur, you've likely found yourself needing to know basic accounting...but baffled by complicated accounting books. What if learning accounting could be as simple and fun as running a child's lemonade stand? It can.
The Accounting Game presents financial information in a format so simple and so unlike a common accounting textbook, you may forget you're learning key skills that will help you get ahead! Using the world of a child's lemonade stand to teach the basics of managing your finances, this book makes a dry subject fun and understandable. As you run your stand, you'll begin to understand and apply financial terms and concepts like assets, liabilities, earnings, inventory and notes payable, plus:
--Interactive format gives you hands-on experience
--Color-coded charts and worksheets help you remember key terms
--Step-by-step process takes you from novice to expert with ease
--Fun story format speeds retention of essential concepts
--Designed to apply what you learn to the real world
The revolutionary approach of The Accounting Game takes the difficult subjects of accounting and business finance and makes them something you can easily learn, understand, remember and use!
"The game approach makes the subject matter most understandable. I highly recommend it to anyone frightened by either numbers or accountants."
-John Hernandis, Director of Corporate Communications, American Greetings
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent place to start, 2008-12-31
This book is an excellent place to start if you are going to be taking any accounting classes or attempting to pass the accounting clep. It will give you a solid foundation to build upon while you try to learn the new concepts that will most certainly be foreign to you if you don't have any prior accounting experience. I had bought a couple of more serious accounting books first but found the presentation of new ideas to be overwhelming therefore bought this book and it helped me to better understand the "grown up" presentation of concepts in the other books. Look at this book like the appetizer and the other books like the main course.
I did find a couple of editing errors (thankfully no math errors!): pg 94 "and your were worried about..." and on pg 101 "locating" should have been "located". Other than that, great job!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
So simple -- and so fun!, 2008-11-26
Before I read this book, I knew close to nothing about accounting. This book gave all the basics and provided helpful insight to managing a small business through accounting. The workbook-like sytle gets you involved with the subject and makes the learning process actually FUN! I recommend this book to ANYONE who wants to learn accounting -- even if you "think" you know it already.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Loved it!, 2008-09-23
This was a great review for accounting... I haven't been in the accounting industry for a while and needed to brush up and this was an educational and fun approach.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Good introductory overview, 2008-08-07
This book provided exactly what I wanted - a good introduction to the basics of accounting. If you want to understand the basics of accounting without having to take a college course on it or wading through a 500-page, jargon-filled textbook, or if you want a book to supplement a college textbook and reinforce the basics, this is a good book for you.
Allow me to emphasize "basic" accounting; you will learn stuff like terminology (like what "gross profit" is and how it differs from net profit), basic methodologies (e.g. LIFO vs. FIFO), and basic tasks like how to create balance sheets, cash statements, and whatnot. This book will not, however, make you a CPA overnight; at some points, it may give you just enough knowledge to make you dangerous.
Although I doubt there's a way to make accounting really interesting, this book came close, and the format as a storybook really made sticking with it a lot easier (and less boring). It's also concise enough to be read relatively quickly and interesting enough that you'll actually be willing to do so. Highly recommended.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 not really what I was hoping for, 2008-07-16
Based on the majority of reviews here, I was hoping this would be neither too simplistic nor too dry. Unfortunately, its too simplistic, and also, since it uses a story-based layout, it is essentially worthless as a reference. What I was hoping for an easy-to-understand reference about accounting, but this is a rudimentary set of information that you have to read beginning-to-end to make any sense out of.
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