Select Accounting Book To Read

Here you will find a list and reviews of the accounting related books we suggest to read for more comprehensive learning. Use them as more detailed source for accounting theory and practice knowledge.

There are 4 main categories: Accounting Basic / Intermediate Accounting / Managerial Accounting

Select any book from the below list, review short information and go directly to the the book. We have included here only those books which were popular and got feedback from sufficient number of readers. Of course it is more favorable to select that book which was already read by somebody else and the opinion was provided on it.

What is also useful for most of the books you will be able to see selected pages to have a feeling what is inside, how the book looks like and whether it is for you or not.

Enjoy! We hope this list will serve you as good source of additional learning resources.

Category: Accounting Basic

Accounting For Dummies

Short description: this is a book to learn accounting basics easily and painlessly. Includes information on accounting methods and standards to keep you up to date. The book will allow you to understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line. Do not expect too detailed information, this book is just your first step towards accounting mastery.

Rating & No of reviews: (37 reviews, 25 of them are 5 & 4 stars)

Pros: excellent to learn very basic concepts, understand accounting terminology, great tool for those who are scared of the word "Accounting", not too much technical details, but enough to understand the basics.

Cons: suitable only for a very beginner, for more knowledge further readings are recommended, for some people was too complex, only overall coverage of accounting, no specifics touched.

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The Accounting Game

Short description: the book presents financial information in a format so simple and so unlike a common accounting textbook, this is a story based learning method for smooth and fun learning. Uses simple business - lemonade stand - to provide basic understanding of accounting.

The material in this book takes the difficult subjects of accounting and business finance and makes them something you can easily learn, understand, remember and use.

However this is not a textbook, reading which you can learn how to keep books, use is as a starting point to learning accounting.

Rating & No of reviews: (77 reviews, 71 of them are 5 & 4 stars)

Pros: amazing book, simple to understand, clear and easy to read, provides examination of a complex business from accounting point of view, it is a fun to learn accounting with this book, includes understandable examples.

Cons: just an introduction, does not talk about T-accounting, general ledgers and other procedures which will allow you to keep books after reading this book, use it as an introductory step.

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Category: Intermediate Accounting

Accounting

Short description: helps students in learning accounting with a practical set of tools. The book includes "macro to micro" approach to accounting and its principles by starting at first with real financial statements and their analysis, the proceeding to the accounting cycle.

This is done with the purpose to explain and demonstrate how financial statements communicate the financing, investing, and operating activities of a business to users of accounting information. This is a motivation to readers to see a relation between theory provided in the book with the practice.

Rating & No of reviews: (26 reviews, 16 of them are 5 & 4 stars)

Pros: quite easy to understand text, helpful problems to practice theory, the book includes many review questions, big help in learning intermediate accounting.

Cons: none, in except for 2 issues with ordering.

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Accounting 8e

Short description: intermediate accounting textbook with theory and practical problems included, helping to study accounting at class or at home, also includes sturdy resources and online system for students to be able to solve exercises and problems on their own.

Rating & No of reviews: (7 reviews, 5 of them are 5 & 4 stars)

Pros: clear text on how transactions progress and how financial statements interact with each other, the book also includes managerial accounting topics, clearly written, well explained topics, practical problems are included to practice theory.

Cons: some typos and math mistakes.

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Category: Managerial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

Short description: the book identifies the three functions managers must perform within their organizations—plan operations, control activities, and make decisions—and explains what accounting information is necessary for these functions, how to collect it, and how to interpret it. This book is also unique since it includes solutions manual, test bank, instructor’s manual, and study guide.

There are many topics covered in this text and the following is just a sample: job order costing; process costing; activity-based costing; cost-volume-profit; inventory; balanced scorecard; overhead application and analysis; budgeting; financial statement analysis; decentralization and segment reporting; valuation methods; management investment projects; decision-making of all types including make-or-buy and allocation type decisions and much more.

Rating & No of reviews: (37 reviews, 31 of them are 5 & 4 stars)

Pros: student friendly, a lot of resources, many practical examples, includes everything what is needed on managerial accounting, very helpful and does it job to teach you managerial accounting.

Cons: none, except for some ordering issues.

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Accounting Workbook For Dummies

Short description: the book presents the key accounting concepts that managers must know in order to make informed decisions. New demo problems have been added to the new edition which demonstrates how the concepts are applied. Case studies also enable readers to gain critical and applied thinking skills that are especially important in today’s competitive environment.

Rating & No of reviews: (21 reviews, 14 of them are 5 & 4 stars)

Pros: easy to follow text, great illustrations, not basic simple text, explains managerial accounting very well.

Cons: for some readers it was too complex.

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If you have not found the book suitable for you, research other books in the following categories:

Accounting

Intermediate Accounting

Managerial Accounting