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> Frank Wood's book "Business Accounting 1" Pretty sure that was the book I grudged most having to pay for when I was at college in 1986. I truly despised acco
by teh_klev 5y ago
> Frank Wood's book "Business Accounting 1"
Pretty sure that was the book I grudged most having to pay for when I was at college in 1986. I truly despised accounting ;)
Three years later and I end up writing code to extend dbFlex and supporting Pegasus accounting software, go figure :)
- tomcam 5y agoI feel you. One of the classes I failed during my brief time in college was symbolic logic. But I was a music major so who cared. A few years later I taught myself to program, and of course C & assembly were filled with Boolean operations and truth tables...
- rahimnathwani 5y agoI found it in 2005 or 2006, a year or two after my MBA, and a few months after I started studying for professional accountancy exams. I wish I'd found it earlier. It was more in-depth than the MBA material on financial reporting, and was presented more logically than the study guides I'd been using.
- teh_klev 5y agoI think it was variances that tipped me over the edge. However what little latent knowledge I managed to stash away in my brain seemed to stand me in good stead later on. I guess another thing that stuck and thought was actually useful as a student was how to reconcile my bank account and cheque book.