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Copley and Engstrom’s Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations, 8e is best suited for those professors whose objective is to provide more concise coverage than is available in larger texts as well as for those professors whose objective is to prepare accounting majors for the uniform CPA Examination in the areas of state and local governmental accounting, accounting for not-for-profit organizations, governmental auditing, and taxation of exempt entities. This edition incorporates all of the FASB, GASB, and AICPA pronouncements passed since the last edition.
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The worst accounting book I've read to date!.......2005-09-21
This is the first textbook that I haven't been able to read through all the assigned chapters. That's saying a lot since I already have one degree and working on a second.
Wow! The text is extremely dry! No book should have 6 or 7 bolded terms in a row and not bother to explain the terms. Also it makes no distinction between some terms. For instance, appropriations vs. emcumbrance vs. expenditure. I had to figure that out on my own.
As someone else said, this is NOT a self-study book! Granted no accounting book should baby you, but if nobody in the class understands what the hell the book is saying, then there's something wrong. If you're using the book for a class and want to use the PowerPoint slides on the publisher's website, don't bother! They're just as bad as the textbook. They don't have a logical flow to them. They don't even flow with the book. What is at the beginning of a chapter in the book may be at the end of the PowerPoint slides for that chapter. There are big chunks of the chapters missing from the slides.
I can't believe this is the 7th edition of this book! It's written like it was the first edition. The author has no concept of how people study. McGraw-Hill should have stopped publishing this horrendous book after the first edition.
YIKES!!!.......2005-06-24
I was "lucky" enough to take a governmental accounting course in which this alleged text was the book for the class. It was universally scorned, and at least the school had the good sense to dump it in time for the following semester.
It's so dry that I have a hard time believing it wasn't written in the 1950's, when dry textbooks were the rule of the day. The layout is drabbed and the font is very cramped. It's surprising how cramped type and very little space between lines actually makes reading so much more difficult. You really sense the book was created on a low budget (even though it's WAY overpriced!).
The subject matter, at least for most people, is a bit uninspring anyway, and this text does NOTHING to allay those prejudices. Accounting books are rarely "fun" but they can be presented in a way that's visually interesting, with some real life case studies or examples. Nothing from real life makes its way into this book.
And on top of everything else, the ink is so cheap that it smears if you hold your finger in one place too long, oh, like when you're holding it open to read. So both the content AND the construction are C**P!!!
Avoid!!!
Frustration.......2003-06-22
This is a truly horrible book. It's written so poorly that the only way it can be used is as a look-up reference. If you don't have a really good instructor for Not-for-profit accounting, find one using a different book. You won't get much out of this.
The 7th Edition is just as bad as the 6th.
Worst Text I ever had to read.......2002-10-29
If it was possible to give this book a negetive star review I would. It has no organization, no structure, and makes no sense. It is by far the worst text I have ever had to read. Although the author is a professor, he must be a very bad one. He has no grasp on how students learn, and makes no attempt to link information together. He uses the same example throughout the entire text. As if in chapter 9, you rememeber what entry 14, is in chapter 3. A horrible book. It is easier to read the GASB statements than it is this book. DO NOT BUY IT!!
WARNING! Reading this book may cause extreme drowsiness........2002-10-10
WARNING! This book may cause drowsiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after reading this book.
It's too bad the author has absolutely no literary skills whatsoever. I'm no great author myself but you'd think by the time they got to the fifth edition all the errors would be gone and they would have improved upon the existing text. I guess the editors must have let this one slip through without actually reading what they were going to be publishing.
If you are unfortunate enough to have to buy this book then you will be dumber for having read it and may God have mercy on your soul.
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The textbook is designed to introduce readers to the accounting procedures and financial reporting of nonprofit entities; i.e., state and local governments), voluntary health and welfare organizations, hospitals and other health care providers, private and public colleges and universities, and other not-for-profit organizations. It is based on the latest official pronouncements and interpretations of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), as well as the industry audit guides issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and Governmental Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting (a.k.a., "The Blue Book") published by the Government Finance Officers Association.
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I Refuse to Buy this Book.......2005-04-22
As a CPA, college instructor, and Director of Finance of a nonprofit organization, I wanted to upgrade and refresh my skills in non-profit accounting. I found this book and scanned the chapters.
This book could be an excellent resource to study and refresh one's accounting skills BUT, I decided NOT to purchase it because if one sits down and completes the various assignments/problems at the end of each chapter - YOU HAVE NO SOLUTIONS/ANSWERS TO CHECK WHETHER YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTIONS CORRECTLY!
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The worst accounting book I've read to date!.......2005-09-21
This is the first textbook that I haven't been able to read through all the assigned chapters. That's saying a lot since I already have one degree and working on a second.
Wow! The text is extremely dry! No book should have 6 or 7 bolded terms in a row and not bother to explain the terms. Also it makes no distinction between some terms. For instance, appropriations vs. emcumbrance vs. expenditure. I had to figure that out on my own.
As someone else said, this is NOT a self-study book! Granted no accounting book should baby you, but if nobody in the class understands what the hell the book is saying, then there's something wrong. If you're using the book for a class and want to use the PowerPoint slides on the publisher's website, don't bother! They're just as bad as the textbook. They don't have a logical flow to them. They don't even flow with the book. What is at the beginning of a chapter in the book may be at the end of the PowerPoint slides for that chapter. There are big chunks of the chapters missing from the slides.
I can't believe this is the 7th edition of this book! It's written like it was the first edition. The author has no concept of how people study. McGraw-Hill should have stopped publishing this horrendous book after the first edition.
YIKES!!!.......2005-06-24
I was "lucky" enough to take a governmental accounting course in which this alleged text was the book for the class. It was universally scorned, and at least the school had the good sense to dump it in time for the following semester.
It's so dry that I have a hard time believing it wasn't written in the 1950's, when dry textbooks were the rule of the day. The layout is drabbed and the font is very cramped. It's surprising how cramped type and very little space between lines actually makes reading so much more difficult. You really sense the book was created on a low budget (even though it's WAY overpriced!).
The subject matter, at least for most people, is a bit uninspring anyway, and this text does NOTHING to allay those prejudices. Accounting books are rarely "fun" but they can be presented in a way that's visually interesting, with some real life case studies or examples. Nothing from real life makes its way into this book.
And on top of everything else, the ink is so cheap that it smears if you hold your finger in one place too long, oh, like when you're holding it open to read. So both the content AND the construction are C**P!!!
Avoid!!!
Frustration.......2003-06-22
This is a truly horrible book. It's written so poorly that the only way it can be used is as a look-up reference. If you don't have a really good instructor for Not-for-profit accounting, find one using a different book. You won't get much out of this.
The 7th Edition is just as bad as the 6th.
Worst Text I ever had to read.......2002-10-29
If it was possible to give this book a negetive star review I would. It has no organization, no structure, and makes no sense. It is by far the worst text I have ever had to read. Although the author is a professor, he must be a very bad one. He has no grasp on how students learn, and makes no attempt to link information together. He uses the same example throughout the entire text. As if in chapter 9, you rememeber what entry 14, is in chapter 3. A horrible book. It is easier to read the GASB statements than it is this book. DO NOT BUY IT!!
WARNING! Reading this book may cause extreme drowsiness........2002-10-10
WARNING! This book may cause drowsiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after reading this book.
It's too bad the author has absolutely no literary skills whatsoever. I'm no great author myself but you'd think by the time they got to the fifth edition all the errors would be gone and they would have improved upon the existing text. I guess the editors must have let this one slip through without actually reading what they were going to be publishing.
If you are unfortunate enough to have to buy this book then you will be dumber for having read it and may God have mercy on your soul.
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Selling a business can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience if the ideal way to go about it is not known. This book explains what to do, have ready, and think about before successfully selling a California business. All California business owners should be proactive and start thinking about the sale of their business well in advance—not at the time they have to sell it. In Selling a California Business, the author shares all the strategies it takes to be successful.
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Intellectual Property Law Update, 2003
Glenn P. Belvis
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FOCUSES ON PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS OF AGROFORESTRY (PART ONE). INVESTIGATES HOW CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND EVEN THEORETICAL FACTORS INFLUENCE AND CAN OVERRIDE THE BEST TECHNICAL PROGRAMS (PART TWO)
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Excellent textbook.......2005-02-01
If you want to learn the basics about industrial paint or powder coating 101, this is the textbook. It explains in lamens's terms what you need to know. Perfect for someone just starting out in the business as a buyer or specifier. Just enough technical detail wihout being too scientific. Even a veteran painter could learn a thing or two from this book.
The best possible about paint.......2003-10-10
I have the second, and now the third edition. I think it's no possible to find a wider coverage about all the subjects related with painting, in only one book. Pehaps, if you use Internet and you have many subscriptions to paint magazines, you can read about specifix items, but never a such coverage.
Direct language, no too much chemistry (we are in the industry, and not in the Universities), a very straight orientation to our every day work. Congratulations
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Poincaré Seminar 2003: Bose--Einstein Condensation - Entropy (Poincaré Seminare)
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This volume contains the third and fourth Poincaré Seminar, both held in 2003. The third one is devoted to Bose-Einstein Condensation: it covers the physics of superfluid liquid helium as well as the recently discovered atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Major experimental results are presented, together with relevant theoretical approaches and remaining open questions. The fourth one is devoted to Entropy, giving a comprehensive account of the history and various realizations of this concept, from thermodynamics to black holes, and includes theoretical and experimental discussions of the corresponding fluctuations for mesoscopic systems near equilibrium.
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Nonlinear Interactions: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods
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Nonlinear Interactions provides a coherent and unified treatment of analytical, computational, and experimental methods and concepts of modal interactions. This book is an obvious extension of Ali Nayfeh's well-known book Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (with Bala Balachandran). These methods are used to explore and unfold in a unified manner the fascinating complexities in nonlinear dynamical systems. The systems discussed are drawn from fluid mechanics and structural dynamics.
Nonlinear interactions between high-frequency and low-frequency modes are of great practical importance. Through the mechanisms discussed in this book, energy from high-frequency sources can be transferred to the low-frequency modes of supporting structures and foundations, and the result can be harmful large-amplitude oscillations that decrease their fatigue lives. On the other hand, these mechanisms can be exploited to transfer the energy from a system to a sacrificial subsystem and hence decrease considerably the vibrations of the main system and increase its fatigue life.
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Chaos is cropping up everywhere these days. As it becomes ever more apparent that Newtonian mechanics is inadequate for modeling nonlinear systems, or systems that have too many degrees of freedom to handle easily, researchers in all fields are turning toward nonlinear dynamics as a refreshing alternative. This is a paradigm shift à la Kuhn, and Klaus Mainzer guides us through it with an astounding range of historical and scientific knowledge. From quantum physics to consciousness to economics, Mainzer shows us how thinking complexly can solve problems over which standard, linear thinking continually stumbles. Instead of simplifying, however, Mainzer revels in the complexity of complexity, so the reader should be prepared for advanced concepts in such varied fields as mathematics, physics, and economics. Difficult, but worthwhile reading.
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The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become by now a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences. And it is now also recognized that many if not most of our social, ecological, economical and political problems are essentially of a global, complex and nonlinear nature. And it is now further accepted than any holistic perspective of the human mind and brain can hardly be achieved by any other approach. In this wide-ranging, scholarly but very concise treatment, physicist, computer scientist and philosopher Klaus Mainzer discusses, in essentially nontechnical language, the common framework behind these ideas and challenges. Emphasis is given to the evolution of new structures in natural and cultural systems and we are lead to see clearly how the new integrative approach can give insights not available from traditional reductionistic methods. The fifth edition enlarges and revises almost all sections and supplements an entirely new chapter on the complexity of economic systems.
From the reviews of the fourth edition:
"This book is ambitious, incredibly erudite with 22 pages of references, and is indisputably clearly and beautifully written and illustrated. It is perfectly suited to a first course on the science of complexity. Even beginners and young graduate students will have something to learn from this book." (Andre Hautot, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (3), 2005)
"All-in-all, this highly recommended book is a wonderful resource for intuitive basic ideas in the need of rigorous formulation." (Albert A. Mullin, Zentralblatt MATH, vol. 1046, 2004)
"Readers of this book will enjoy Mainzer's exposition, which is based on a tight coupling between classical and historical concepts from Plato and Aristotle to modern, mathematical and physical developments . Every chapter begins with a section designed to orient the reader to the perspective of philosophical developments through the ages pertinent to the topic at hand. The author takes pains to point out essential differences between classical science and the science of complexity.
Thinking in Complexity is an outstandingly readable book." (Anutosh Moitra, The Industrial Physicist, August/September, 2004)
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very difficult subject; but intriguing ideas.......2006-01-19
[A review of the 4th Edition, 2003.]
This book studies complexity and nonlinearity across a diverse range of applications. Much of the book revolves around organic evolution and the evolution of a sentient mind. And how complexity analysis might aid in the understanding of these fields. Not the least in devising deeper forms of artificial intelligence.
So intriguing techniques like cellular automata and neural networks are studied. There is a fair amount of speculation as to how these and other topics might ultimately relate to sentience or consciousness. But the musings are grounded in solid science. Like that of a Hopfield system or a Boltzmann machine. This 4th edition is a good reflection of the boundaries of our knowledge.
understandable highest level science with cultural backg.......1999-06-16
The book covers a broad field - all parts in close connection with the others and its background in modern science and historic cultural connotations. The theoretical aspects are merged with lively explanations. Readable for the non-specialist, understandable for the average science-educated and meaningful for the specilaists, both in physical systems science and in philosophy. A top-notch guide through this topic of multidisciplinary novelties.
Full but turgid catalogue of complexity phenomena.......1998-02-25
This book is an extremely well-informed cataloguing of the many areas of human experience in which self-organisation and complexity phenomena play an important role. However the writer's style becomes very heavy as a result of transferring German constructions into English - so much so that I was forced to skim read many sections.
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CHAOS: A Program Collection for the PC
H.J. Korsch ,
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Chaos: A Program Collection for the PC presents an outstanding selection of executable programs with introductory texts to chaos theory and its simulation. Students in physics, mathematics, and engineering will find a thorough introduction to fundamentals and applications in this field. Many numerical experiments and suggestions for further studies help the reader to become familiar with this fascinating topic. The second edition includes one CD-ROM, the executable programs are Windows 95 compatible.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Computational methods and modelling is of growing importance in fundamental science as well as in applications in industry and in environmental research. In this topical volume the readers find important contributions in the field of turbulent boundary layers, the Tsunami problem, group invariant solution of hydrodynamic equations, non-linear waves, modelling of the problem of evaporation-condensation, the exact solution of discrete models of the Boltzmann equation etc. The book addresses researchers and engineers both in the mechanical sciences and in scientific computing.
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This work brings together previously unpublished notes contributed by participants of the IUTAM Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence (Moscow, 25-30 August 2006). The study of vortex motion is of great interest to fluid and gas dynamics: since all real flows are vortical in nature, applications of the vortex theory are extremely diverse, many of them (e.g. aircraft dynamics, atmospheric and ocean phenomena) being especially important. The last few decades have shown that serious possibilities for progress in the research of real turbulent vortex motions are essentially related to the combined use of mathematical methods, computer simulation and laboratory experiments. These approaches have led to a series of interesting results which allow us to study these processes from new perspectives. Based on this principle, the papers collected in this proceedings volume present new results on theoretical and applied aspects of the processes of formation and evolution of various flows, wave and coherent structures in gas and fluid. Much attention is given to the studies of nonlinear regular and chaotic regimes of vortex interactions, advective and convective motions. The contributors are leading scientists engaged in fundamental and applied aspects of the above mentioned fields.
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Computational Physics
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The articles in this volume cover emerging areas in nonlinear dynamics from chaotic quantum system to nonlinear dynamics of the earthÂ’s magnetosphere and from microscopic chaos and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics to nonlinear dynamics of human brain activity by leading researchers from India and abroad.
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Mad Cows: Library Edition
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