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I was very suprised when I read the first chapter of this book and then skimmed the rest of the book. This book would be great for high school or introductory level students. The University of Phoenix is using this as a textbook and I feel this is to entry level for a University course. The author does a good job of covering the current state of the industry. There is also some history thrown in for good measure. Overall the book is good but not for advanced coverage of the topics covered in the book.

I have no access to this book, as I am a lecturer at various universities in Tehran, and teaching the same subject,so, I am interested to have an example of it as free of charge for introducing it to students and others.If so, send me a message then I can provide you with my address. Dr. M.S.Tehrani

I ordered this book 25 days ago. Clearly someone is selling vaporware

Ordered this book because it was the first out on MS CRM. And while the book was helpful, it was typical "Dummies" material in that I think it lacked some things (e.g. Did not cover form customization, creating a letter/fax, etc.). So, it is a good primer to CRM, but I'm sure better material will be released. This is probably a good read for the average user, but for an admin or "trainer", you'll want to delve deeper.

The only worth this book has is that it provides a comprehensive list of BAPI currently available in SAP. Otherwise, it's a complete waste of time and money.

This is a useless book on SAP. Could not find any usefull material on any subject of SAP.

There is not any substance or detail in this text, it is about as usefull as marketing overheads. Having developed an interface
to BAPIs using Java, I can tell you that this book is of no help.

Bob

Nothing more than a poorly written user manual. I was *thoroughly* disappointed. What a waste of money.

If you took out what was not directly related to the vastly overpriced costXpert product you would have about 10 pages.

I happened across this book in the University of Wisconsin bookstore and picked it up hoping it would expand on things already covered in Boehm's work. As a book, it isn't so great.

However, the software it contains is one of the most usable cost estimation tools around - if you need that kind of tool. In many cases, I've gone through the process that this software shows with other people who bought the tool outright (it's expensive if you're getting it as a single user - if you're buying it for corporate use, it's quite a value). The software is particularly valuable if you're a novice at cost estimation, since you can experiment with different lifecycles, documentation standards, and environmental factors. From this standpoint, the Marotz tool is an excellent educational device.

In short, if you need a software cost estimation tool - download
the free trial version from Marotz and try it out. This book
by itself is probably promising too much.

This book is definitely not worth reading. The premise is misleading (it is hardly in-depth), writing is poor (I found numerous typographical errors), all views are strongly biased towards Gates, and none of the author's arguments are supported sufficiently.

If this book is called The Path to the Future, why does the author spend so much time talking about the past? The book contains boring histories that everyone already knows, plus a lot of filler and no actual insights. Don't waste your time.

This book is a great book. It is a condensed version of his life... Instead of reading too much into boring details you get the quick fast pace version in a great, easy to read novel. The author has obviously done great research of his subject. Do not listen to these other reviews which are obviously from people who hate Bill Gates. Below you will find my summary and analysis of this book:

Bill Gates is probably one of the smartest and most successful men of our time, maybe of all time. This book is the summary of Bill Gates' path to success and the history of how our society became dependant on computers and of course Microsoft. How did Bill Gates become the richest man ever know? What Challenges did he face? All is revealed about the man behind Microsoft, the company that changed how we live.

Bill Gates is a genius that is probably smarter than anyone you will ever know. Here is the story that will show you his inner workings. Interesting combinations of unique personality characteristics that this man has is what has made him the success he is and is explained to you in this story.

The title of this book is a little misleading in that you might assume it's more about the design of an accounting system as opposed to an introduction to Access. A better title would be, Introduction to Access 97 Using Simple Accounting Examples. The first half of the book introduces Access to beginners and includes no useful accounting information, while the second half discusses how to create an accounting database and the accompanying forms and reports. The sample database barely scratches the surface of what even a hot dog vendor would require. For example, the very core of any accounting system, the general ledger, is not designed into the database. In fact, you won't find any entries in the index under general ledger -- a glaring omission for a book on accounting. Too many pages are devoted to listing tedious, step-by-step instructions for creating the simple tables, forms and reports. The authors would have done better to do this only for the first example and then refer the reader to the accompanying CD in later chapters. They could have used the newly acquired space to develop a more complete database along with a higher level discussion. Somebody with no accounting experience, no programming experience and no Access experience may find this book useful, but anybody who needs to build a real accounting system will be frustrated.

Finally a book that doesn't use useless access work-throughs like student databases to teach microsoft access. This book is very basic though. This book is what you would expect to find in an introductory accounting system course taught at most colleges. It covers all of the basic accounting cycles but leaves you with a lot of issues to figure out on your own. The chapters seem to be repetitive in that the book never moves on to more complicated issues such as creating modules. You will only see very basic macros in only one chapter. The book doesn't even attempt tell you how to tie all of the cycles into a general ledger and therefore ignores the creation of financial statements. So at the completion of the book all you have are bits and pieces of an accounting system. I question whether the authors have ever developed a full blown accounting system. If they have I hope they will expand the coverage of the book in future editions. If there were any other books on access and accounting I might not recommend this book. However, if you are a beginner to financial systems this book may get you started.

I searched for books for Microsoft Money 99 Personal and Business and got this one which is not good for Business. I was looking for help in doing invoices as in the above program and this book/program does on do invoices. Returned book.

This is a good book if you haven't had a lot of experience with Microsoft money. It covers the basics of Money and gives good examples of how the features work. For more advanced users a more in-depth book would be a better choice.

In general I found this book useful and easy to use.

This document is available for free directly from Aberdeen, amongst other places. Also available amongst most AML link libraries. It is really a review of various software available to financial institutions for AML.

A great concept for a book. However, I was disappointed. I had hoped to find something that would address the issues faced in building a double entry accounting system in Access.

Instead I found something that missed the mark in terms of Access -- Access 97 Power Programming, Access Bible, and the VBA books by Getz et al. hit this mark much better -- and missed the mark in terms of accounting -- no discussion of how to integrate a chart of accounts, the authors dismissed the need for double-entry bookings and never developed it, and then the book only addressed a couple of the accounting cycles.

I awarded two stars because the book would have been a good book if I were just learning what a table was in a relational database and I had an avid interest in accounting and only wanted to get a feel for what the other book written by these two authors by almost the same title was like.

However, I do applaud the attempt for someone with an accounting background to write a book that might help others better understand accounting and apply it using an application that is so readily avaliable.

This report represents a classic example of limited inquiry in academic pursuits by relentlessly ignoring category error (insufficient definitions) as challenged since the early '90s by Mandel (Businessweek 5/18/94) and others (Edupage 2/21/95). It is now finally contradicted by the NAICS data (USA Today 3/20/99).