Pearson Canada

They have the market cornered when it comes to providing text books in the accounting and book keeping field, at least for the continuing education sector (courses).
The really really annoying part is that you spend over $ 100 — $ 200 and the text book doesn’t have any solutions for the problems. I am the type of person who learns best from her mistakes, therefore, these solutions would’ve been a great asset to the learning experience. Instead with no solutions, especially in my level 2 book keeping course (currently enrolled in)…I never learned from my mistakes and I had an even cloudier process of the accounting cycle when it came to the Gst & Hst taxations.
I tried calling the Pearson’s customer service line and spoke to an awesome lady by the name of Lori, however, she was unable to provide me with assistance with getting the answer key. This was partially due to the fact that I was unable to bluff my way through pretending to be an instructor to get this resource material.
I had to do this ’cause I had minor issues with the current teaching methods of the instructor and structure of the level 2 situation (see separate review on the Langara level 2 course in 6 weeks).
For starters this text book, College Accounting: A Practical Approach 12^th edition, has numerous mistakes in it. I’ve made notes of these mistakes and have verified a few of them in chapters 1 — 6 with Jennifer, my level 1 instructor.
I’ve also sent a 3 page e-​mail to Pearson’s outlining the mistakes in their textbooks. I know that writing a textbook isn’t cheap, however, when you have at least 20 very notable mistakes and calculation rule errors in a college textbook… that raises some red flags.
It’s pretty scary when someone who hasn’t earned their full certification, has spotted these errors with consultations, with both instructors and a co-​worker I used to work with of these errors.
If you’re at Langara taking this course I will be more than happy to share you my files on the numerous errors within the book.
I am a bit of a numbers nerd (I love Math and I am obsessed with it), therefore, spotting the errors was a little fun for me.
Before Pearson’s has the balls to charge $ 200 average for a new text book at least make it useful by posting some solutions to the practice problems. This would increase the educational value of the text (instead of just buying an «Accounting for Dummies» book or other publications that are free at the Library).
Secondly if they’re going to have the balls to charge $ 200 for a text, make sure that it is 100% accurate. Nothing worse than reading a textbook for finance and accounting with so many calculation errors.