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Straighterline Accounting Book Problem
#1
Ok, so I'm starting to get a little irritated. I'm planning on taking Accounting I and II with straighterline in a few weeks. I would have started it already, but I accidently received the wrong book. I needed Fundamental Accounting Principles, I received Principles of Financial Accounting. Both had the same cover and two out of the three authors and I looked up the book by entering in the ISDN provided by straighterline into textbooks.com. I thought that I did everything right, but I figured that I might have gotten misdirected somewhere, so I chalked the whole thing up to a mistake on my end.

So, I reordered the book from textbooks.com again, using the ISDN and I was VERY careful to make sure I had the right version this time. I just received the book and it's called Fundamental Accounting Principles and it claims to the the 19e, BUT instead of the authors being Wild, Larson, and Chiappetta as listed by straighterline, the authors are Wild, Shaw, and Chiappetta, like the first book I ordered! The ISDN DOES match the one provided by straighterline, but when I look at the course syllabus, it doesn't look like the chapters match up!

I'm hoping someone who has taken the course lately can clarify if I have the right book or not. I know that it probably has essentially the right information, but I was trying to make the courses as easy on myself as possible, and it seemed to be the way to do that was to have the exact textbook. But getting the exact textbook they're looking for seems to be almost impossible.

Also, this book has 25 chapters, to give you an idea of what I'm dealing with.
~Banta

Graduated 2/17/11: BS in Business, Concentration: General Business from Excelsior College

EXAMS/COURSES TAKEN: UB - Principles of Comm - C | UB - US History II - C | AS - Freshman Comp - C | CLEP Humanities - 70 | CLEP College Math - 66 | CLEP Bio - 70 | CLEP Psych - 74 | CLEP American Gov - 68 | CLEP Social Sciences - 73 | CLEP Microeconomics - 72 | CLEP Macroeconomics - 74 | CLEP Management - 72 | DSST Supervision - 457 | DSST HRM - 70 | DSST OB - 75 | ALEKS College Algebra - 78% | ALEKS Intro to Statistics - 71% | CSU Pueblo 311 MGMT - A | SL Accounting I - A | SL Accounting II - A | DSST Finance - 458 | DSST M&B - 63 | CLEP Intro Business Law - 71 | DSST Business Law II - 79 | CLEP Info Systems - 73 | DSST MIS - 481 | DSST Business Ethics - 458 | DSST Intro to Business - 461 | DSST Environment - 70 | CLEP Marketing - 71 | CLEP A&I - 73 | SL Sociology - 98% | SL Intro to Criminal Justice - 96% | SL Western Civ I - 92% | Excelsior BUS 495 - A

Degree plan.
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#2
I ordered my Text for Fundamental Accounting Principles from Amazon used for like $10. And yeah it was pretty beat up, but it was all complete.

It was a rev older than the current text, but it worked fine.
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#3
Hi jackbanta,

You may have the complete book used for Straighterline Financial Accounting and Managerial accounting.

The books I got were split in 2. Book 1 for Fin-Acct was chapters 1 through 10 (or something) and the remainder we for Managerial Accounting.

I have since sold all these books, so can't speak to them currently, but i did think it was odd that the original text was split rather than just being sold together.

Hope this helps!
---Graduatedt Excelsior - BS - General Business - Conferred August 2012---

Social Sciences CLEP:59 - Humanities CLEP:55 - Natural Sciences CLEP:53 - Analyzing & Interpreting Literature CLEP:59 - Management & Information Systems DSST:435
Human Resource Management ECE:C - Org. Behavior ECE:C - World Population ECE:C - UExcel Political Science:C - 2 NFA ACE Approved Courses
Straighterline:Criminal Justice, Western Civilization 1 and Sociology - Passed, Penn Foster Cost Accounting & Financial Management:Both B
CSU MGMT 311 Operations Management: Finished April 2012 - A, Business Ethics & Society DSST -- 440, BUS495 - EC Business Capstone - A

Finished - AS - Business from Excelsior - 61 credits 2.8 gpa - Commencement July 2011
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#4
Just thought I'd update this thread in case someone has the issue I had in the future.... I do have the right book, which is the full text for both Accounting I and II. Nevermind about the authors, the pages match up.
~Banta

Graduated 2/17/11: BS in Business, Concentration: General Business from Excelsior College

EXAMS/COURSES TAKEN: UB - Principles of Comm - C | UB - US History II - C | AS - Freshman Comp - C | CLEP Humanities - 70 | CLEP College Math - 66 | CLEP Bio - 70 | CLEP Psych - 74 | CLEP American Gov - 68 | CLEP Social Sciences - 73 | CLEP Microeconomics - 72 | CLEP Macroeconomics - 74 | CLEP Management - 72 | DSST Supervision - 457 | DSST HRM - 70 | DSST OB - 75 | ALEKS College Algebra - 78% | ALEKS Intro to Statistics - 71% | CSU Pueblo 311 MGMT - A | SL Accounting I - A | SL Accounting II - A | DSST Finance - 458 | DSST M&B - 63 | CLEP Intro Business Law - 71 | DSST Business Law II - 79 | CLEP Info Systems - 73 | DSST MIS - 481 | DSST Business Ethics - 458 | DSST Intro to Business - 461 | DSST Environment - 70 | CLEP Marketing - 71 | CLEP A&I - 73 | SL Sociology - 98% | SL Intro to Criminal Justice - 96% | SL Western Civ I - 92% | Excelsior BUS 495 - A

Degree plan.
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#5
Thanks, Jack, for the update. I was planning on taking those two classes in the near future, so I'm glad to learn about this issue.
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#6
I had the same issue when I took the classes then I learned that one of the authors died and his name was replaced in the newer edition
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