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Title: Building Accounting Systems Using Access '97 by James T. Perry, Gary P. Schneider ISBN: 0-324-00076-6 Publisher: South-Western College Pub Pub. Date: 14 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $71.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: More basic than title suggests
Comment: The title of this book is a little misleading in that you might assume it's more about the design of an accounting system as opposed to an introduction to Access. A better title would be, Introduction to Access 97 Using Simple Accounting Examples. The first half of the book introduces Access to beginners and includes no useful accounting information, while the second half discusses how to create an accounting database and the accompanying forms and reports. The sample database barely scratches the surface of what even a hot dog vendor would require. For example, the very core of any accounting system, the general ledger, is not designed into the database. In fact, you won't find any entries in the index under general ledger -- a glaring omission for a book on accounting. Too many pages are devoted to listing tedious, step-by-step instructions for creating the simple tables, forms and reports. The authors would have done better to do this only for the first example and then refer the reader to the accompanying CD in later chapters. They could have used the newly acquired space to develop a more complete database along with a higher level discussion. Somebody with no accounting experience, no programming experience and no Access experience may find this book useful, but anybody who needs to build a real accounting system will be frustrated.

Rating: 3
Summary: Finally an access book covering accounting systems
Comment: Finally a book that doesn't use useless access work-throughs like student databases to teach microsoft access. This book is very basic though. This book is what you would expect to find in an introductory accounting system course taught at most colleges. It covers all of the basic accounting cycles but leaves you with a lot of issues to figure out on your own. The chapters seem to be repetitive in that the book never moves on to more complicated issues such as creating modules. You will only see very basic macros in only one chapter. The book doesn't even attempt tell you how to tie all of the cycles into a general ledger and therefore ignores the creation of financial statements. So at the completion of the book all you have are bits and pieces of an accounting system. I question whether the authors have ever developed a full blown accounting system. If they have I hope they will expand the coverage of the book in future editions. If there were any other books on access and accounting I might not recommend this book. However, if you are a beginner to financial systems this book may get you started.