Month: April 2013

Author: Chris Reed Publisher: Oxford University Press – 249 pages Book Review by: Deekay Daulat Some 2.4 billion people, constituting one third of the world’s human population, were using the Internet as of June 2012, according to Wikipedia, commonly known as the global online encyclopedia. The Internet is a vast, interconnected, global system of computer networks. It began developing in the 1960s with efforts undertaken by the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense. The Internet’s progenitor was the ARPANET, the world’s first operational packet-switching network that implemented the TCP/IP system. Read further below on it....

Author: Joanne M. Flood. Technical Reviewer: Mark Edwards, Partner, Grant Thornton, LLP Publisher: John Wiley & Sons – 1321 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book of 33 chapters has an extensive coverage of topics, from Researching GAAP Matters (chapter 1, pages 1-26, to read what the GAAP is, its origin, the body that governs it, its scope of authority, etc.) to Revenue Recognition (chapter 12, pages 359-433, on which are itemized nine different types of revenue) to Income Taxes (chapter 24, pages 809-873, with topics ranging from the evolution of income taxes to an income tax provision...

Author: Paul R. Burden Publisher: Wiley – 297 pages Book Review by: Krishnan Ramamurthy This is the latest edition of a book that has become very popular among educators. It is thorough in its coverage and easy to understand, as it is written in plan everyday language. We had also reviewed the fourth edition of this classic in these pages online. Written and updated by Paul R. Burden, an assistant dean and professor in the College of Education at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, this book covers topics ranging from motivating students to learn, to dealing with challenging...

Authors: Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom and Roberta M. Roth Publisher: John Wiley & Sons – 563 pages Book Review by:  Krishnan Ramamurthy This book has been organized and written in such a way that students do not just read it but get practical use of it. The authors – experienced analysts and designers of information systems themselves – want students working on a research project to understand the issues involved in it so that they can correctly analyze and design systems that are effective. Alan Dennis, Barbara Wixom and Roberta M. Roth write that systems analysis and design...