Payroll Accounting [With 2 CDROMs]

The exercises in this book are practical and well chosen. You can learn a lot about Payroll with this book. Not everything though. There is nothing like doing payroll that makes learning payroll immediately relevant. This is the best way to learn a boring subject in an intuitive way. The book would be more helpful if the student could get some hands on real experience. In the end, you have your employees, your outsourced payroll provider, your accounting and payroll system, your employer or boss and then yourself. Out of all this, you're probably the most important component of the payroll system. You have to decide which policies to use for the organization, if you have any authority. It a lot easier to replace most of the other elements cited than to replace the payroll accountant. Sure, the quizzes didn't tightly track with the lesson material. Everybody knows this, but you're doing this on your own and not for class, aren't you? You can rise above and learn this subject by using several sources, none of which is the single authoritative source. This book is worth working with.

My wife needed this book for an Astronomy class. She wanted a book with a two cds and not all marked up. I got it for a good price and it looks like a new book with no extra marks. I am very impressed with the quick delivery time, the ease of ordering and the condition of the book. I was also kept posted on the sent date and anticipated delivery date and it was accurate. This was very much appreciated, especially during the holiday season. Good Job!

This book is very thorough and not too grotesquely boring. Accounting textbooks can seem to drag on and on but the information in this book seems to all be relevant and pertinent. There are plenty of review questions and problems at the end of each chapter and the chapters do build on each other well, so the further into the book, the more questions from previous chapters. Some other nice things about this book are the continuation problems that utilize the posting of payroll accounts and ledger pages to further help the student grasp the content. The CDs included are wonderfully useful, too. There doesn't seem to be a relevance issue with this text as I have experienced with textbooks in the past.

Good book, but the problems in the chapter reviews could be more discriptive as to what answer the want.

I have found this book to be very helpful in gaining a practical understanding in the workings of a Payroll function. This book has helped the entire department which has recently started performing the US payrolls for our organisation. I hope that a listing of courses that currently use this book as a recomemded text is included in its next edition.