Reviews
This book seems well suited to new employees encountering accounting work for the first time, as well as first-year accounting students who want to study the subject. It presents the engaging, accessible story of an owner’s family member joining the company as a supervisor and teaching and passing on accounting know-how through everyday life.
After reading chapter 4 about Manager Hwang attending a collection meeting, I was finally able to understand clearly the issues that had always come up around collecting payments. I work at a company and have often seen the accounting team urge the sales team to follow up on collections, so this helped me get a sense, even indirectly, of the problems involved. It made me wonder whether our company handles things this way too. I could see that every department has its own difficulties and that
As someone who runs a small business, accounting always felt like the most confusing subject to me. This book explains it so clearly that even someone with no background in accounting can understand, and it helped me a lot with learning the basics. The material is presented through stories, which makes the book easy to read and keeps it from feeling dry. I had fun understanding the concepts. I’d highly recommend it to anyone like me who knows nothing about accounting but is curious and wants to
The table of contents is original. Its format is completely different from that of traditional accounting books, which makes it interesting.
Kim Sang-gon: The answer lies in accounting
How can you teach accounting to someone who knows nothing about it, with only three weeks to do so—and with the chairman’s youngest son as your student? At the end of those three weeks, he has to present a financial analysis of the company to the chairman. This book follows Assistant Manager Kim as he guides Hwang, an engineering-trained corporate heir, toward becoming an accounting expert. Kim searches for the right way to teach him, while Hwang pushes back and even walks out of the company. The story then unfolds naturally as Hwang uses his own assets to prepare financial statements, and after three weeks he successfully presents to the chairman and executives. The book tells this story as a novel. Along with Kim’s accounting lessons, it depicts situations that can arise within a company and how problems are resolved, making it feel like watching a movie. Readers can also download the Excel files used in the text and follow along with their own assets. It’s an enjoyable introduction to accounting for readers who are interested in the subject but haven’t found a suitable textbook.
Korean title: 회계에 답이 있다
Korean author: 김상곤
Korean publisher: 신영사
ISBN-13: 9788955018622
Reviews
This book seems well suited to new employees encountering accounting work for the first time, as well as first-year accounting students who want to study the subject. It presents the engaging, accessible story of an owner’s family member joining the company as a supervisor and teaching and passing on accounting know-how through everyday life.
After reading chapter 4 about Manager Hwang attending a collection meeting, I was finally able to understand clearly the issues that had always come up around collecting payments. I work at a company and have often seen the accounting team urge the sales team to follow up on collections, so this helped me get a sense, even indirectly, of the problems involved. It made me wonder whether our company handles things this way too. I could see that every department has its own difficulties and that
As someone who runs a small business, accounting always felt like the most confusing subject to me. This book explains it so clearly that even someone with no background in accounting can understand, and it helped me a lot with learning the basics. The material is presented through stories, which makes the book easy to read and keeps it from feeling dry. I had fun understanding the concepts. I’d highly recommend it to anyone like me who knows nothing about accounting but is curious and wants to
The table of contents is original. Its format is completely different from that of traditional accounting books, which makes it interesting.
