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    Study Guide/Working Papers Manual for use with Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting
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    Study Guide/Working Papers Manual for use with Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting
    Joe Ben Hoyle , Thomas Schaefer , and Timothy Doupnik
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    5 out of 5 stars Study Guide/Working Papers Manual.......2005-09-12

    It was delivered promptly and intact. However, I thought it a little pricy but that is the way it is with educational materials.
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    2 out of 5 stars Study Guide and Working Papers for use with Advanced Acounting.......2007-02-18

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    I always do much better in my accounting classes if I use the Study Guides and this is no exception. A must in my book.
    Study Guide/ Working Papers for use with Modern Advanced Accounting
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    • Advanced Accounting by E. John Larsen
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    Study Guide/ Working Papers for use with Modern Advanced Accounting
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    Larsen's Advanced Accounting provides complete and in-depth coverage of the topics typically taught in a one-or-two semester advanced accounting course, including partnerships, business combinations and consolidated financial statements. Faculty appreciate the current coverage of FASB and GASB regulations (FASB 141 & 142, GASB 34 &35), the wealth of thorough end-of-chapter material, and the in-depth coverage in this shorter length Advanced text. Flexibility is provided by modularly designed parts, each self-contained, that allow instructors to cover only chapters that are appropriate for their class.

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    2 out of 5 stars simplistic yet confusing.......2006-01-24

    I adopted this text for use in a course I taught. I won't be using this book again. I feel guilty that my students had to pay good $ for it.

    5 out of 5 stars Very understandable explanations.......2004-06-17

    Advanced accounting is an area where understanding the concepts that underlie procedures is crucial for solving new problems. This clearly written book excels at giving you the conceptual understanding you need to solve the problems you see on tests. It is especially good in explaining the knotty area of accounting for intercompany transfers.

    I recently finished a demanding advanced accounting course for which I picked up this book to supplement the advanced accounting text used in the course. I learned much more from Larsen's book. Despite my somewhat thin at the time background in financial accounting I received an A- in the course. No way that would have hapenned without studying this book. I am sure it will also help in my CPA test preparation. The separately available study guide has good practice questions.

    5 out of 5 stars Advanced Accounting by E. John Larsen.......2004-05-31

    This book emphasizes the advanced accounting subject areas for
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    and graduate-level exams. The book is a worthy purchase. The Web dimension of the presentation adds considerable value to the overall purhase. Advanced accounting courses require preparation and considerable problem solving. Both aspects are emphasized heavily in the current rendition.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for comprehensive exams!!!.......2002-03-30

    Author has a flawless style of writing and presenting accounting. It has clear-cut examples with no gimmicks. This is a great resource for reviewing for comprehensive exams.

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    Study Guide/Working Papers for Use With Advanced Accounting
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    • Advanced Accounting
    Study Guide/Working Papers for Use With Advanced Accounting
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    Revised substantially for this edition by Richard Rand at Tennessee Tech, this combination study guide and working papers reinforces the key concepts of the book by providing students with chapter outlines, multiple choice questions, and problems for each chapter in the text. In addition, all the forms necessary for completing the end-of-chapter material are included.

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    5 out of 5 stars Advanced Accounting.......2000-08-04

    This is a popular university textbook. I know this because I called several universities for recommendations before purchasing. I've used this book as a professional reference. It is very current on recent pronouncements. The book is well organized, has good examples and it includes many "real world" examples as well
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                    Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on the Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis
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                      L.J. Balk , W.H. Gerling , and E. Wolfgang
                      Manufacturer: Pergamon
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                      This book contains the papers presented at ESREF 2000, the 11th European Symposium on the Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, which was held in Dresden, Germany, from October 2-6 2000. The papers are being published concurrently as a special issue of the journal http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/microrel Microelectronics Reliability.


                      The ESREF symposium is the annual European forum for reliability physics and analysis of electronic components. This Proceedings volume contains oral papers from the nine conference sessions in ESREF 2000. The session topics, reflecting the main areas of interest within the scope of the Symposium, are as follows:

                      • Design for reliability

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                      The Proceedings contains oral and poster papers from the Symposium, and includes a number of keynote and invited papers. The invited papers feature an international spread of authors and serve to introduce the conference sessions and focus on leading work in these areas. In addition, the Proceedings includes the winner of the Best Paper Award at the Reliability Center Japanese Conference (RCJ 99, Japan).

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                        L.J. Balk W.H. Gerling E. Wolfgang
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                        The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy
                        Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
                        • Self-important, snobbish, condescending, and silly
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                        The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy
                        Janice Harayda
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                        With just one month to go before her fairy tale wedding to the third richest man in the second largest city in Ohio, Lily Blair is suddenly beset by doubts.Even though she appears to have it all - a budding career and a five-carat engagement ring from the man of her dreams - she can't decide whether to plunge headfirst into the security of married suburban life, or follow her career dreams solo to New York. And while the zany and loving cast of friends, family, and co-workers keep pushing her towards the aisle, Lily knows that, despite the passion she feels for her fianc, she alone must come to terms with the biggest decision of her life.As she locks horns with her mother on nearly every detail, issues like veal medallions vs. chicken wings become battles in an event being staged with all the grandeur and precision of a full-scale military operation. The situation grows funnier and more desperate at every turn as Lily must confront an absurd bridal fair, an unsympathetic psychiatrist, and the local gossip column. Before she loses her sanity, she looks to her heroine, Jane Austen, for inspiration.The result is hilarious, sweet, and smart. For Lily Blair is a real heroine for the 90s and beyond, and The Accidental Bride who will keep surprising you until the end.AUTHORBIO: Janice Harayda is an award-winning journalist who spent eleven years as the book editor of a major metropolitan daily newspaper.She has been a staff writer and editor for Glamour, editorial director of Boston magazine, and a contributor to many national magazines and newspapers.A vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle, she lives in New Jersey.The Accidental Bride is her first novel.

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                        1 out of 5 stars Self-important, snobbish, condescending, and silly.......2007-03-27

                        I just finished this book yesterday and I was happy to be done with it. I have never disliked a book enough to actually come onto amazon.com and write a scathing review of it, but this one inspired me. The only reason I finished it was to see if the main character was suddenly going to do something worthy of my attention, like grow up and appreciate her groom.

                        All the characters are flat and fit neatly into two categories: the "good guys" and the "bad guys". The "bad guys" are all "rednecks"; sports-obsessed, war-loving, anti-gay rights, corn-dog eating Republicans who all have horribly snotty children. The "good guys" are portrayed as enlightened, socially aware, psychology-hating, liberal-thinkers who raise unrealistically well-behaved children and think that Manhattan is the only cultured place on earth. What the "good guys" really come across as are self-absorbed, overly politically correct snobs who see phallic symbols at every turn. (I think the phallic symbol references are supposed to be funny.)

                        With all the Jane Austen quotes and references, I gather that the writer was trying to make a satirical commentary on our times as Austen did on hers. But Harayda misses the two things that make Austen so likable and powerful a writer: the "good guys" have human flaws that make us like them, relate to them, and feel empathetic towards them and the "bad guys" are either comical or pathetic, making us either laugh or feel sympathy. This book did none of these things. It insulted, belittled, and condescended at every turn. By the end, I was cringing when I saw Austen's quotes at the top of each chapter. It was a complete insult to her.

                        Lily, the main character, is a spoiled, snobbish, self-absorbed brat who pouts instead of opening her mouth and sharing her feelings with her fiancé. She is spineless and allows her parents and Mark (the fiancé) to dictate her life. She is also strangely obsessed with corn dogs. She doesn't want to get married and hasn't told Mark that she loves him, yet she accepts his proposal. She hates her mother, the house Mark's father bought them, his sisters, the town they live in, her boss, and her job and yet she does nothing pro-active about changing or coming to terms with any of this - she just whines and pouts and compares everyone to obscure literary characters. She views herself as a powerless victim and everyone else as merciless oppressors. I felt like I was reading about a spoiled 16-year-old.

                        Mark is a flat, boring, too-good-to-be-true character but even with that, he is way too good for self-absorbed Lily. He proposes to her before she has even said "I love you" and wants to marry her instead of living with her first. I kept wanting him to leave Lily and maybe teach her something.

                        Alas, there is no major transformation of the main character. She doesn't learn any lessons or come to terms with her own character flaws - Oh, wait. I forgot; she doesn't have any. Instead, everyone suddenly realizes that she was right all along and she gets her way in everything. And everyone admires her for it.

                        No wonder I found this book at the Borders outlet instead of the proper store.

                        5 out of 5 stars As it happens, Cleveland does suck.......2007-03-11

                        Please ignore the poor reviews. They obviously come from the "troglodytes" of Cleveland. Look it up, Clevelanders.







                        Tom Heehler

                        3 out of 5 stars Not terrible, but not terrific.......2005-04-04

                        I got seriously sick of the Jane Austen, as well as the author's self-congratulatory literary comments throughout the book -- I felt like the author was trying to show off a degree in Literature to the Unwashed. The ending was incredibly stupid -- not at all what I expected, and utterly disappointing. The reason for 3 stars and not 1 star was because it wasn't completely awful -- I did like to see how Jerry Springer-esque her views of her in-laws and family could get.

                        2 out of 5 stars An Accident if you decide to read............2004-09-28

                        Most likely this is the first and Last book Janice Harayda will write. The Accidental Bride, Harayda's first is nothing but an accident.

                        Lily is a 20 something is about to get married, to one of Ohio's richest, but pulls out only to find herself making matters worse for herself. Sounds good. Yet it is not.

                        Harayda never gives us a description of the main character, let alone any other character in the book. Its hard to read a book where the mental image you have in your head is a paper doll. Every character is so flawed that you can not get past that fact alone. No character is likeable. Hands down. How can you like a lead character that forces herself to get married to a man who loves her, only to fake loving him to get a divorce after the wedding. Talk about low.

                        Then there are the facts and the non-stop Jane Austen bits. Lily our main character lives in Ohio, only to make it sound like hell. Hello!!! I live in the Ohio Valley, and we do not have crime rates that are bigger than NYC's, a climate where it snows in September (without a nor easter), we are not rich and live in look alike communities (our economy is not the best right now), and no we are not soooo out of style that we make Trailor Park Trash look like Naomi Campbell.

                        Jane Austen!?? You will never pick up one of her novels if you read this book, for the author dwells on Jane the whole book that she forgets what matters...the plot of her own book.

                        I would like to say that you could give the book a chance, but heck dont waste your time. I would have given it one star had I not had enough will to finish the thing.

                        Skip this read and pick up a Jane Green novel...or even one of Austens' great novels.

                        5 out of 5 stars A humorous book that made me think.......2004-04-07

                        I really enjoyed this book and in fact was on this Amazon page hoping to see if there are more books by this author. The book is not Jane Austen and is not meant to be. However it is an witty look at contemporary mores involving courtship, love, romance, and marriage. It made me think about my own choices and my expectations of others. And it made me laugh! And also vow never to visit Ohio....
                        The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy
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                          The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy
                          Janice Harayda
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