My Accounting Textbook has end of chapter questions but no official method of getting answers.

I am taking some accounting courses online. I am using this textbook that is required by a few courses. Southwest Federal taxation: 2017 by William Hoffman. I was going to complete the end of chapter questions but there is no official method to get the answers to check my answers. I checked the ebook I got and no answers in the back of the book. I contacted Cengage that publishes the book and the representative could not find the answers anywhere. She recommended I contact my instructor. I contact him and he says that he is not authorized to share the answers. He recommended I just do the assignments given by the school, which are massively insufficient to gain mastery on the concepts and practices. I look online and see if the answers are online. They are. But you have to pay for them. Either through sites like Chegg or third party sites with red alerts for security warnings. So I am wondering why there aren't any official ways to get answers to the questions provided with the book for free. The methods to get answers that involve payment are not great. Chegg has the questions online, but other users have to answer the questions. I was thinking of taking the risk and going with the third party site but then I figured, well those answers could be incomplete or wrong as well. I even contacted the Department of Education to see if this was okay. I got an answer back saying something like each state holds its own standards. I am writing this because I just remembered something about a partnership between Chegg and Cengage. I looked online to confirm. There it is. An exclusive partnership between Cengage and Chegg. It leads me to think that this is another way of squeezing money out of people just because you can.

Does anyone have a way to work around this, while I continue my education?

At first, my workaround was to disregard the "required textbook" now and just research for a good and proper textbook if there is one. Now I'm thinking of just trying to switch schools if I can keep the credits. I would really appreciate any help or ideas to get around this and learn the material more efficiently.

TLDR: Cengage doesn't provide the answers to the end of the chapter questions except through a subscription service like Chegg, who they are partnered with.

Submitted August 25, 2019 at 11:25PM by xxravindraxx https://ift.tt/2Zwj3sq