Cost Accounting: Traditions and Innovations [Hardcover]

Jesse T. Barfield (Author), Cecily A. Raiborn (Author), Michael R. Kinney (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0324026455 | ISBN-13: 978-0324026450 | Publication Date: 2001 | Edition: 4th

This text has a real world focus and is replete with discussions of real companies. It presents opening and closing vignettes of featured actual companies that relate to the topical coverage of each chapter, and numerous notes discussing current business issues involving real companies related to the particular subjects being discussed within the chapter.

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Dr. Jesse T. Barfield is a Professor of Accounting at Loyola University¿New Orleans. He received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1971. He earned an undergraduate degree in accounting and a masters in accounting at Florida State University. He has practiced as a CPA and is licensed to practice in Florida and Louisiana. His research and professional interests include managerial and cost accounting, total quality management, and quality assessments for managers. He teaches accounting, quality management, and auditing in Loyola¿ s undergraduate program and also teaches graduate courses in the MBA and MQM programs. He was chosen by the Loyola CBA undergraduates to receive the 1998 Award for Outstanding Teaching. He has published in the Journal of Accountancy, Management Accounting, The Florida Certified Public Accountant, and The Louisiana CPA.

Dr. Cecily A. Raiborn is the McCoy Endowed Chair in Accounting at Texas State University-San Marcos. She received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1975. Dr. Raiborn has taught a wide variety of classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including cost, managerial, intermediate, and advanced accounting as well as courses in accounting policy and fraud prevention and detection. Her research interests include financial, cost management, international, quality, and ethics issues. She has published articles in accounting, law, and ethics journals including MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING, ADVANCES IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING, JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING CASE RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, LABOR LAW JOURNAL, and JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS. In 1991, she received the AICPA/Louisiana CPA Society Outstanding Educator Award. Her interests outside the classroom include traveling, reading, water activities, decorating, and cooking.

Professor Michael R. Kinney joined the faculty of accounting at Texas A&M (College Station) in 1989 after receiving a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Arizona. He is currently a KPMG Faculty Fellow of Accounting. He has taught undergraduate courses in cost and management accounting and graduate courses in management control systems, cost management, management consulting, corporate taxation, partnership taxation, and corporate tax strategies. He has received teaching awards including the outstanding teacher of the Texas A&M College of Business from the College of Business Honors Society (twice), and Delta Iota Chapter's Beta Alpha Psi teaching excellence award in accounting (twice) and the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching. Professor Kinney has co-authored numerous articles in accounting, taxation, and finance as well as co-authoring ten college textbooks on management accounting and cost management. Dr. Kinney has also conducted consulting and executive development projects for several large Texas-based companies. Currently, Dr. Kinney serves as the Ph.D. Program Coordinator for the Department of Accounting. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1065 pages
• Publisher: South-Western Pub; 4th edition (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324026455
• ISBN-13: 978-0324026450
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,131,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Expected more, October 2, 2005

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This review is from: Cost Accounting: Traditions and Innovations : Student Solutions Manual (Paperback)

I would like to have some hint how to figure out problem 51 chaper 14. The text is : Cost Accounting Traditions and Innovations. Third Edition. Barfield Raiborn Kinney