Financial Statement Analysis: A New Approach (Contemporary Topics in Accounting)

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Title: Accountability and rendering of accounts: new approaches for the public sector.
Author: Alberto Martinez-Gonzalez
Publication: International Advances in Economic Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Page: 67(14)

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Financial Statement Analysis: A New Approach

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Financial Statement Analysis: A New Approach
Baruch Lev
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Well written and a world of experience to pass on.

Very little use to me

Still the best! Not called "the hikers Bible" for nothing.

Incomplete Walker: a tale of two books

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For the first time since 1984, we have a new edition of the classic book that Field & Stream called “the Hiker’s Bible.” For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. Together, they have made this fourth edition of The Complete Walker the most informative, entertaining, and thorough version yet.

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Well written and a world of experience to pass on........2007-08-28

This is a solid book of information, a great resource. A ton of good reading and reliable wisdom. You could use this book to train anyone to hit the trail, you just may not want to carry it, it's BIG! Highly Recommended.

Very little use to me.......2007-05-02

I brought this book in the hopes it would tell me about walking. I was very disappointed that it appears to simply be a gear guide. If you are into that good, but it's not all that useful for someone like me. A sleeping bag is a sleeping bag I don't need 20 pages tell me about them.

I also expected a little more that just gear information. Obviously this is something you need to take into account but it's not everything. I would perhaps have called this book the complete gear guide but it is certainly not the complete walker. The index also leaves much to be desired.

Still the best! Not called "the hikers Bible" for nothing........2007-02-26

This is the fourth edition of a book which first came out in 1968, which I read probably around 1970, and which as the name implies is all about walking. Or more accurately about hiking, backpacking and camping in all sorts of environments and situations.

The author is a colorful character named Colin Fletcher, although for this edition (which came out in 2002) he has a co-author named Chip Rawlins. He needs the co-author since he was just short of 80 in 2002, so wasn't getting out on the trails as frequently as he used to. And there's a lot of new gear out there.

Over the years Fletcher has written a number of books about his long hikes, including a six month walk through the Grand Canyon.

The Complete Walker IV contains a huge amount of information, much of it irrelevant to me, since I wont be snowshoeing through mountains or crossing the Colorado river on my air mattress. But it also contains great information if, like me, you are planning on doing some brief campouts in the spring and summer, including two and three night backpacking expeditions with young sons.

This is why I decided to re-read the book in it's new edition. After all, there's plenty of stuff that didn't even exist in 1970, like fleece clothes and self-inflating sleeping pads, as well as huge improvement in things like tents and backpacking stoves. So figured it was worth re-visiting the book.

And I wasn't disappointed. The Complete Walker IV is still a breeze to read (skimming or skipping the irrelevant sections), written with elegant humor and vigorous prose and loaded with advice on equipment and technique. It is very comprehensive, and also offers many suggestions for additional reading. For example, based on their recommendations I looked at a number of books on first aid and mountaineering medicine and have purchased two through Amazon.

So highly recommended if you have any interest at all in the subject - still "the hiker's Bible" as it was first labelled by Field and Stream in 1968.

Incomplete Walker: a tale of two books.......2007-02-08

I bought this book based on its overwhelmingly positive reviews. Having read the book, I can understand the effusive praise: there are certainly many parts that are deserving. In the best parts of the book, the writers definitely draw the reader into the "romance" of hiking/backpacking. There can be no question that their writing draws from authentic and tested (many times) experience, and they convey their thoughts in a manner that is very engaging, even infectious. In fact, I defy any reader to read this book and not be inspired to "get out there." For this reason alone I can highly recommend this book.

But there is another respect in which I found this book wanting. To call it "complete" is beyond overstatement. Really, this book is two books: a timeless one that romantically talks about "walking" with practical considerations and some tips and techniques conveyed as appropriate within the context of the broader "story," and one that is a painstaking, excruciating inventory of gear that was probably already fairly outdated at the time it was published and quite outdated now. Even more frustrating was how often something would be mentioned briefly, acknowledged as important, and then skipped (e.g., useful knots)! This from an 800+ page "Complete" tome! I can understand that a certain franchise has been built on the "Complete Walker" moniker, but at the very least it's misleading.

For future editions, my suggestions would be to 1) retain all the sections relating examples and "true story" types of experiences (there are many in the book and virtually all are excellent), 2) ruthlessly and dramatically condense the product/gear reviews (any such reviews will rapidly become dated but shelf life can be extended by focusing more on principles and only briefly noting specific exemplars extant), and 3) either increase the scope to include those subjects the writers themselves deem as important or drop the word "complete" in the title. With these changes, I would rate the revised edition five stars without reservation.

As it is, the current edition is a combination "walking" (albeit incomplete) manual and inspiration guide that handily rates five stars and a gear review that at best rates 3 stars. Hence, my four star rating.

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