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Transitions : Positive Change in Your Life & Work.......1999-02-24

change in my actitude persona

Transitions : Positive Change in Your Life & Work.......1999-02-24

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The new computerized CPA exam became effective in 2004. Focus Notes provides a review of all the basic skills and concepts tests on the CPA exam and teaches important strategies to take the exam faster and more accurately. The FAR section of the exam will cover accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for businesses, not-for-profit organizations and governmental entities. Wiley Focus Notes are designed to provide that knowledge in formats that are easy to understand and remember.

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Wonderful study tool.......2004-07-27

These focus notes are a wonderful tool. There are two major reasons why I suggest buying them.

1) It will save you from writing your own flashcards (which would take a whole lot of hours to do (probably many many days)

2) It beats flashcards. I have purchased flashcards before, and the Focus Notes are much better. You tend to get flash cards out of order...or you may lose some of them. The flashcards I bought did not have many examples, just definitions. The focus notes have definitions and examples.

The only caveat. If you are using Becker, I'd buy their flashcards, because they are geared towards their materials. And their materials are excellent, even though expensive. Probably worth it if you have the money.

The Focus Notes correspond to modules in the Wiley Books. However I am using them with Bisk. I just found the chapters in my Bisk books that correspond to the pages in the Focus Notes. It took a few hours to do this, but it wasn't a big deal. Hope this review helps other CPA candidates.

Wiley Cpa Examination Review: Focus Notes : Accounting and Reporting (CPA Examination Review Smart Notes)

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CPA Focus Notes
Good notes, not updated for current CPA Exams.
Business Law Focus Notes
accounting subjects and accounting related subjects

Wiley Cpa Examination Review: Focus Notes : Accounting and Reporting (CPA Examination Review Smart Notes)
Mark Edward
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Study on the go!
Produced is an easy-to-read and carry spiral bound format, The second edition of Focus Notes, just published in July, is a four-volume paperback spiral-bound set of accounting notes provides all the critical information that candidates need to pass the Uniform CPA Examination. This quick-review tool is the most effective way to complete test preparation. Its easy to use and covers all the basics needed to pass the exam! Packaged according to examination section, the notes include: terms; key criteria and concepts; definitions; memory boosters; summaries; key points worksheets; tax rules; schedules; and mnemonics, all presented in an easy-to-read style.

This handy guide makes the most of a candidate's valuable study time and lets them study anywhere they can carry a pocket-sized, spiral-bound book. It's easy-to-use and user-friendly:
* Convenient size and format
* Easy to remember mnemonics, definitions, and buzzwords
* Key rules and problem-solving techniques
* Study tips and worksheets
* Summaries and examples

Buy the entire set of all 4 Focus Notes or buy the individual Focus Notes that corresponds to the section of the CPA Exam that you need extra help with. Sections are the following: Accounting and Reporting, Auditing, Business Law, and Financial Accounting and Reporting

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CPA Focus Notes.......2005-11-23

I would not have passed the CPA exam without Mark Edward's Focus Notes. They were invaluable.

I wish he would do Focus Notes for the CMA exam.

Good notes, not updated for current CPA Exams........2002-10-14

These focus notes are very useful to get the core concepts to pass the CPA, and in my opinion would relieve the "too much information" problem in the Wiley CPA books series.

In my opinion, these focus notes will be more useful if combined with another text book. Perhaps the Wiley CPA books series have the advantage of faster cross referencing, since they have the same module division.

If you are a Beckerconviser student, I would recommend that you buy their flash cards...(yes they started selling their own flash cards to their students in fall 2002).

One last note, if you are buying the second edition of the focus notes and using them to attend coming CPA exams,BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT UPDATED!!!.
Examples of outdated notes in the financial accounting and reporting section are:
1. in the Intangible assets section (40 years is not any more the maximum useful life for intangible assets), and
2. the treatment of discontinued operations in the financials.

I gave it a 3 stars score because of the update issue.

Business Law Focus Notes.......2001-05-09

I used the Focus Notes to assist in preparing for the May 2001 Business Law portion of the CPA exam. I made additional notes on the Focus Notes as I read my textbook and as I completed practice exams. I felt I saved a lot of time I might have wasted making my own flash cards, and the logical format of the Focus Notes helped to clarify the information for me.

I felt great after I completed the exam, and I highly recommend the Business Law Focus Notes as part of your studying.

accounting subjects and accounting related subjects.......1999-08-28

practical accounting 1, practical accounting 2, auditing theory, auditing problems, management services, business law, tax,theory of accounts

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Excellent...lucid, insightful and very relevant........1999-06-03

Prof. Leader's work will change the way people think about freedom of association. It's a must read for anyone doing work in this field.

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The Orkney Islands are a special place, in terms of both their natural history and their human inhabitants. Their rich coastal habitats host significant seabird colonies and marine communities. Their position off the north coast of Scotland provides a major land fall for migratory birds. In human terms, traditional lifestyles of fishing and crafting vie with modern industries, such as oil, leading to conflicts of both human and wildlife conservation dimensions. This book paints a broad picture of the natural and manmade environments.

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This book covers the basic electromagnetic principles and laws from the standpoint of engineering applications, focusing on time-varying fields. Numerous applications of the principles and law are given for engineering applications that are primarily drawn from digital system design and electromagnetic interference (Electromagnetic Compatibility or EMC). Clock speeds of digital systems are increasingly in the GHz range as are frequencies used in modern analog communication systems. This increasing frequency content demands that more electrical engineers understand these fundamental electromagnetic principles and laws in order to design high speed and high frequency systems that will successfully operate.

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Revision de Electromagnetismo.......2007-10-03

El nivel matematico baja bastante, me gustaba más la edicion que tenia con McGraw-Hill, en esta edicion se me hace demasiado simplista. Me gustaria saber que antes de comprarlo, el nivel matematico que tenia el libro mediante ver algunas paginas digitales del libro en amazon

Electromagnetics for Engineers, EMAG Solutions Companion: With Applications to Digital Systems and Electromagnetic Interference

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Electromagnetics for Engineers, EMAG Solutions Companion: With Applications to Digital Systems and Electromagnetic Interference
Clayton R. Paul
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Bravais, inventor of the polar lattice, correctly deduced the fourteen possible varieties of space lattices consistent with the several symmetry classes. This classic nineteenth century work begins with preliminary definitions and advances to discussions of nets in general, symmetrical nets, the general properties of lattices, symmetrical lattices, and polar lattices. 42 figures.

On the systems formed by points regularly distributed on a plane or in space; (The Crystallographic Society of America. Memoir)

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On the systems formed by points regularly distributed on a plane or in space; (The Crystallographic Society of America. Memoir)
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Started out great, then became Da Vinci Code

Great Characters and a Great Read!

Fascinating history but a so-so novel

Interesting premise/so-so novel

Absorbing, and also a great introduction to the authorship question...

Chasing Shakespeares: A Novel
Sarah Smith
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With this exhilarating novel from the author the San Francisco Chronicle calls "daring" and "splendid," Sarah Smith cuts to the heart of one of literature's most fascinating and enduring mysteries: the enigma of Sir William Shakespeare.

Meet Joe Roper, a thoroughly modern graduate student who has landed the job of a lifetime working in the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. He's been passionate about Shakespeare since reading a duct-taped paperback copy of Macbeth as a kid. But if all the world's a stage, Joe's working-class roots do little to prepare him for his role in the academic arena. Enter Posy Gould, stage right. A glamorous rising star at Harvard, she insists that a letter Joe's found, signed by one W. Shakespeare of Stratford, is a career-making discovery for them both -- particularly because the letter suggests that the plays were not written from Shakespeare's quill. What follows is a literary adventure story that places Joe and Posy in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with the Queen's court, and an unsolved mystery spans across five centuries and two continents. A first-rate thriller from one of the masters of the genre, Chasing Shakespeares is also an enduring tale about love, art, and poetic justice.

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Started out great, then became Da Vinci Code.......2007-05-07

I have an amateur interest in anything Elizabethean or Shakesperean, so the premise of this book sparked my interest. And I have to say it started out as a page turner. Fortunately I did know enough English history to catch some of the names, and once they arrived in London (my favorite city in the world) I was in second heave reliving my many trips there. However....About midway through (after they meet Dan Cannon) it falls apart. There are so many connections between so many names and dates that it really is rendered unreadable even by those who are knowledgable. Its obvious that she did her research - she knows her history, and her converage of the Straford/Oxford controversy is on target. But by the end it became so convulted that it reminded me of Da Vinci Code and I started skimming just to see the end.

This is certainly not the best book in the world, as one reviewer said. Its not total trash. It has its redeeming features. But unless you have Elizbethean background and/or are patient enough to climb through the web of names, I'd pick something else.

Great Characters and a Great Read!.......2006-08-30

For me, Chasing Shakespeares isn't as much about who wrote Shakespeare as it is about why we want to know. In this regard, Joe Roper is an admirable character and a memorable hero. Some of the other characters are less admirable, less heroic, but still interesting. Sarah Smith made me want to know more about all of them. And certainly, there's plenty left unresolved at the end to fill a sequel. Let's hope! I also recommend her mystery series that began with The Vanished Child.

Fascinating history but a so-so novel.......2006-07-01

The good points: I enjoyed Smith's writing greatly (her descriptions of people and places are economical, sharp, and original); she generally presents the evidence for the Oxfordian case effectively; and she creates well-realized, unique characters who held my interest throughout. (Given Joe's background, I didn't find his profanities surprising: it's how he would have talked with his childhood buddies, so he slips back into it at emotional moments.)

The not-so-good points: The plot, aside from a couple of interesting twists, isn't much; Smith raises some issues that could potentially have made the story more engaging, but doesn't pursue them (e.g., why Posy's father is ... well, the way he is towards her); and I found the historical details hard to follow at times (a family tree would have been really helpful in sorting out all the Cecil/de Vere cross-connections).

Also, to me, some of the characters' dilemmas seemed quaint: Why is Mary Cat convinced that becoming a nun is the only way for her to accomplish what she wants to do in life? (Surely the past 4 decades have amply demonstrated that women have other options!) And why does Joe feel that his Ph.D. dissertation has to reveal some Profound Truth? (Yeah, I knew a few such people when I was a graduate student 30 years ago. But most of us saw the dissertation as just another requirement we had to fulfill; and students have, if anything, grown more cynical since then.) It seemed that Smith was writing, rather anachronistically, about her own education rather than about present-day students.

In general, this novel reminded me of Tey's *The Daughter of Time*: a fascinating historical mystery, investigated by a group of engaging characters, in and of itself doesn't make for much of a plot. Tey's novel, at least, made a point about the way history is written (or fabricated); Smith's novel seemed to dribble away inconclusively at the end.

Interesting premise/so-so novel.......2006-04-12

The story begins with Joe Roper, a good ol' boy Vermonter turned graduate student in Shakespeare, cataloging a collection of books, letters, and "stuff"--most of which are forgeries. He discovers one letter, supposedly written by Shakespeare himself, which indicates that William Shakespeare was not really the author of all of the plays, poems, and sonnets.

(As a side note, the controversy of whether or not William Shakespeare of Stratford could have had the knowledge and background to write all those plays has raged for years. The most likely candidate pushed forward as an alternate author is Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. Hence, the pluralization of "Shakespeare" in the title--more than one Shakespeare author has been proposed.)

Joe soon meets up with Posy Gould, a wealthy, flashy grad student who is studying Robert Cecil (contemporary of Shakespeare, not a writer). She finds out about the letter, and the two of them fly to England to have the letter authenticated.

While there, Posy tells Joe of her theories of the authorship question, and both of them do a bunch of research on de Vere and other writers of the time. They tour around England a bit, bicker with her movie producer father, and...other things.

I won't give away any of the exciting bits, but I will give you a general assessment. If you've ever been interested in the Shakespeare authorship question, this book lays out the de Vere case pretty well. It also tosses about a lot of Elizabethan names, so it's easy to get lost with just who is whom. Also, Joe swears a great deal. For a graduate student in English, he certainly has a limited selection of interjections and adjectives.

But, if you don't mind a lot of swearing in your books and really want to know more about the case against Shakespeare, you would find this book worth reading. It was compared to AS Byatt's Possession, but it wasn't nearly as good. (And I didn't think Possession was a real page-turner.)

Absorbing, and also a great introduction to the authorship question..........2006-02-25

I remember vaguely hearing about the authorship mystery in high school, but had never really read about it. This book was in my amazon.com recommendations, and I bought it because it seemed interesting.

I have a degree in history and know a lot about British history, having also lived there for a while. But I've never been a huge Shakespeare fan, so a lot of the references were really obscure and didn't really mean much to me. I liked this book, though, because I could sort of skim over a lot of that obscure stuff and still not feel like I missed much.

I absolutely loved the writing - I lived in London, and her descriptions took me right back. The character development was stunning. The plot twist totally shocked me. And it got me really interested in the authorship mystery and has inspired me to read further about it.

My only gripe would be that there were times when it did move a bit slow for me, but that was mostly because it was when Joe was doing some bit of research which was being described in great detail, so I would just skip ahead a few paragraphs.

Definitely a great book!

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