William C Boyton & Raymond N Johnson, Modern Auditing 8th Edition

[Noo]

Sorry I have to vent but I don't know how these 2 yahoos managed to publish one of the most confusing book I've ever attempted to read.

Does anyone freaking review their work before publishing it? I'm frustrated as freaking hell trying to understand WTF they're trying to say in every freaking paragraph. Looking at the Amazon reviews, I'm not the only one because every review on amazon also say the book is as good as a doorstop.

 

[Noo]

There are so many blantant copy and paste hack-jobs throughout the book where they didn't even bother to change the title of each section. Examples are copied over and over again.

 

[PastTense]

What's interesting is that this is the 8th edition--one would expect a poor book would not have new editions.

Look at the introductory material. I am guessing that Boyton (the first author) authored the series alone originally--and he was an excellent author, but he has recently either died or retired. In order for the publisher to keep making lots of money they hired a hack to revise it--but kept Boyton listed as first author because of his reputation.

 

[CPA]

Auditors are morons, so this doesn't surprise me.

 

[Ns1]

I'm not sure I even opened my accounting book in college.

<---accounting degree

 

[andylawcc]

i never bought an accounting book

<---- jew

 

[Hoober]

I write books.

<---- hired an accountant

 

[Ns1]

i never bought an accounting book

<---- jew

:biggrin:

 

[Noo]

If you have to use the word "risk" 6 times in ONE sentence to prove a point, you need to have a freaking damn clue or need to review your crap before trying to explain it.

Throughout the book, I thought I was going crazy because I'll see the same topic heading appearing two or three times. Verbatim. The body of the paragraph is just poorly edited version of the previous one (10 pages prior). It's such a blatant piss-poor copy-and-paste hack job.

If you have to use the word "risk" 6 times in ONE paragraph in an attempt to explain ONE point, you need to re-review your god damn work.

 

[Noo]

Auditors are morons, so this doesn't surprise me.

I'm sure when they wrote it, it sounded great in their head.

 

[CPA]

Sort of like when I deal with them directly. It sounds good in their head until I have to explain reality.

 

[sactoking]

If you have to use the word "risk" 6 times in ONE sentence to prove a point

If you have to use the word "risk" 6 times in ONE paragraph in an attempt to explain ONE point

The body of the paragraph is just poorly edited version of the previous one. It's such a blatant piss-poor copy-and-paste hack job.

Serious?

 

[JManInPhoenix]

I had to Accounting Principles I for my degree. I can honestly say that I would really suck as an accountant - good thing the wife is one.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Sort of like when I deal with them directly. It sounds good in their head until I have to explain reality 4 times.

FTFY

 

[CPA]

FTFY

Good catch

 

[Lonyo]

Sort of like when I deal with them directly. It sounds good in their head until I have to explain reality.

Sort of like most accountants who fail to understand basic accounting requirements and can't explain what they've done because they don't even know.

 

[alkemyst]

OP, still time to change to Liberal Arts?

 

[CPA]

Sort of like most accountants who fail to understand basic accounting requirements and can't explain what they've done because they don't even know.

It's called creative accounting. Sort of like how an artist can't really explain an abstract painting.

 

[Noo]

It's called creative accounting. Sort of like how an artist can't really explain an abstract painting.

LOL

 

[slugg]

Let me guess... Your professor wrote the book, is friends with an author, or is given a kick-back for forcing his students to buy this book? Sounds probable.