CA Final
166 Points
Joined January 2010
As Amit said rightly, S D bala is the best book for self study. You will really feel like a live lecture. If u don't have classes, then only option remains for conceptual clarity and thats S D Bala/ V Pattabhiram book.
Once your concepts are clear, then you can try some problems from other books for variety. But ICAI PM/RTPs are must.
Shridhar has good variety of problems but does not clear concepts. Those who have done classes won't understand what is the difficulty in understanding FM without classes. So people may suggest other books. I have Shridhar as well as S D Bala. As I could not understand from Shreedhar, I had S D Bala and it really hepled me.