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Intermediate Accounting, Solving Intermediate Accounting Problems Using Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel for Windows

Author: Donald E Kieso

This bestseller has powered the careers of countless professionals. This update to the 11^th edition builds on the book's reputation for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and currency, incorporating all the recent changes to the accounting literature. It integrates numerous examples from real corporations throughout the chapters to help readers understand the application of accounting principles and techniques in practice. They'll also find problems that are modeled on the AICPA 'Simulations' - a new question format designed for the computerized uniform CPA Exam. These problems prepare readers for the exam, testing their ability to read, digest, research and respond to both a numeric problem and a short answer essay. This edition does NOT include the Problem Solving Survival Guide

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Disconnected: Haves and Have Nots in the Information Age

Author: William C Wresch

In the Information Age, information is power. Who produces all that information, how does it move around, who uses it, to what ends, and under what constraints? Who gets that power? And what happens to the people who have no access to it? With vivid anecdotes and data, William Wresch contrasts the opportunities of the information-rich with the limited prospects of the information-poor. Surveying the range of information - personal, public, organizational, commercial - that has become the currency of exchange in today's world, he shows how each represents a form of power. He analyzes the barriers that keep people information-poor: geography, tyranny, illiteracy, psychological blinders, "noise," crime. Technology alone, he demonstrates, is not the answer. Even the technology-rich do not always get access to important information - or recognize its value. Wresch spells out the grim consequences of information inequity for individuals and society. Yet he ends with reasons for optimism and stories of people who are working to pull down the impediments to the flow of information.

Publishers Weekly

As a Fulbright Fellow in Namibia, Wresch found 30 personal computer vendors in the capital city of Windhoek, and met businessmen who received floods of e-mail and CD-ROMS from Europe. Just blocks away, migrant laborers relied on word of mouth to get occasional work unloading trucks. Wresch, now a computing and mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin, takes us on a dizzying global tour of information glut and famine. Television sets per 1000 people? The Netherlands has 906; Bangladesh, five; the U.S., 815 (or 850, depending on which page you're reading). Phone lines per 100? Make that 51 in the U.S.; only one in China, India, Kenya and several other countries. And even where print, broadcast and electronic media abound, so do paradoxes and perils. Libraries across the world are accessible electronically, but books are still being burned; gigabytes of news bounce from satellite to satellite, but journalists are harassed, censored and killed. In case anyone in the information-rich world is getting complacent, Wresch warns of a surfeit of junk, numerous gaps in real information (black holes in cyberspace), and ever-increasing opportunities for invasion of privacy and the spread of hate. Wresch gushes facts like a fire hydrant, but his humane values and high-energy writing make him an excellent guide for this eye-opening trip. (Nov.)

Library Journal

References to the Information Age and the Information Superhighway appear daily in American media, creating an impression that information flows freely between computers and people around the world. Wresch challenges this image with a careful assessment of the current state of the information revolution. Drawing on his personal experience and research as a Fulbright Fellow in Namibia, he highlights the plight of the information-poor in contemporary society. Describing information as a commodity, he examines the types available, the ability to move information, and human limits in processing it. Anecdotes such as a description of Elzibe Erasmus and the operation of her ITC Credit Bureau in Namibia or the account of the theft of the computer disks that control the glassmaking machines at Waterford Glass effectively illustrate his arguments. This lively and well-written book belongs on all information professionals' reading lists and in most libraries.Judy Solberg, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.