Accounting problems

A problem too difficult for the participant means that there are TOO many things the participant needs to learn before answering the problem. This is highly inefficient and a real waste of time. Instead of building a foundational knowledge one step at a time, the tendency is to throw a puzzle without clear direction of how to proceed.

This is a problem in teaching here in the Philippines. The quality of the education is so lacking that this basic principle is often the problem with the teaching method.

I've learned how to learn, and I can identify several problems in the book that needs an accounting background to answer. Especially when The major quiz I just took maintains that the topics are from Chapters 1-3 when it has a Cash flow problem which requires me to study chapters 1-14!!!

That is plain stupid. If the problems that are supposed to take Chapters 1-3 require me to answer with knowledge contained in half the entire book to practice and understand (chapters 1-14) then what is the point of saying Chapters 1-3???

Struggling with the answers right now, i realized (scanning at the answers online) I need to know some key concepts before being able to answer the Chapter 4 problems:
Chapter 4: T-Accounts

Closing Accounts - Why is Sales Revenue a Credit and Not a Debit? This was not explained in previous chapters (which used a T Account as early at Chapter 1).

Why is does the question in the book assume that the student has complete terminology knowledge of more complex ideas that is discussed in future chapters (which i have read and not understood)?
Ex. The book tackled expenses and expenditures, but quickly assumed the student has mastered all the parameters needed to know when to apply these. This is a freaking semantic "game" why would I make assumptions on how it is used when the broadness of the terminology allows me to apply it to almost anything. Normally a LIST of all examples is provided in the same way a balance sheet uses A=L+Ea as a check and balance system. When I have a Selling Expense, what is its difference with Cost of Good Sold and Sales Salaries... essentially they are the same thing but why are they used differently, why is there is an assumption that I would miraculously know the finer semantic differences between the 3. Heck the book doesnt even follow that basic accounting principle of consistency, by the way it shifts to terms without warning. Ugg...

I quite agree with the amazon review of the book.

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