Principles of cost accounting - Hardcover

Robert E.; Nagy Charles F. Schmiedicke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0538013907 ISBN 13: 9780538013901

Publisher: South-western Pub Co, 1973

Synopsis

The market leading Principles of Cost Accounting, 12E offers a thorough, but concise, understanding of cost concepts, cost behavior, and cost accounting techniques applicable to manufacturing and service businesses. Readers will learn how to accurately determine the costs of products and services; use the knowledge of product and service costs to set selling prices, to bid on contracts, and to analyze the relative profitability of various products and services. Techniques will be demonstrated on how to measure the performance of managers and subunits within an organization; design an accounting system to fit the production and distribution system of an organization; and use the accounting system as a tool to motivate managers towards the organization's goals.

About this title

About the Author:

Ed VanDerbeck is Professor of Accounting and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been a Xavier professor for 22 years specializing in the teaching of cost accounting to accounting majors, and managerial accounting to undergraduate and MBA students. He has also taught at the two-year college level at SUNY - Delhi. He has a BA in Accounting from SUNY - Binghamton and an MS in Business Administration from SUNY - Albany. He is licensed as a CPA in the state of Ohio. VanDerbeck has worked as an internal revenue agent, performed a faculty internship at what then was the Big Eight accounting firm of Touche-Ross, and served as a developmental editor and marketing manager for accounting publications with South-Western Publishing Company. His consulting activities have included teaching accounting workshops for nonfinancial managers and serving as a consulting editor for accounting publications. He is an avid tennis player and a student of casino gaming strategies.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-western Pub Co
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0538013907
• ISBN 13: 9780538013901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 362
• Illustrator: 94