This book is great. It has helped me to understand government accounting as never seen before. The examples and tables help in understanding the subject of the chapter being studyed. I would recommend this book for any student in regular college or on-line study.

This is the worst accounting book ever that I purchased and attempted to use for my accounting class. I am a very good student with a 4.0 GPA and read quite easily. However, it was virtually impossible for me to comprehend what was in this book. It consists of hundreds of pages of blabber without any type of structure or common sense flow. It looks like someone got high and just started typing like a maniac, writing down the thought of the moment with some chapter titles and subtitles thrown in just before publishing. It is dense, exceptionally boring and poorly written. It was so hard to plow through this text that I ended up dropping it. It would have stuck to the class if I did not have to put up with this book.

I am having the 8th Ed. ISBN is: 9780073130965. Worst book I ever have. Don't know why such a stupid book will be used by schools. If I am an instructor using this book to teach students, I feel shame.

Worth less than 1 Star.

This is the worst textbook, ever. I wish my University had the good sense to dump this piece of garbage. It is dry, poorly written, and constructed like garbage. For over 60 dollars for a paperback you would expect a lot more.

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.