Principles of Cost Accounting [Hardcover]

Edward J. Vanderbeck (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0324100949 | ISBN-13: 978-0324100945 | Publication Date: July 9, 2001 | Edition: 12th

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.

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: South-Western Pub; 12th edition (July 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324100949
• ISBN-13: 978-0324100945
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,013,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not very helpful, August 15, 2007

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Kathryn M. Quick (Scotia, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles of Cost Accounting (Hardcover)

I just finished a Cost Accounting class and the professor did not have us use this book! He used his own notes and said the book was not very good.

1.0 out of 5 stars Opinion from an instructor, July 31, 2005

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Koalacpa (St Paul, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Principles of Cost Accounting (Hardcover)

Unfortunately, I have to agree with one of the previous review. The book lacks consistency and logic. Just to mention one of the numerous flops - how you can talk about economic order quantity and not mention a material planner. The book is supposed to help an instructor. Well, it does the opposite.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Easy to follow., August 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Principles of Cost Accounting (Hardcover)

I was pleased with with this book. At the end of each chapter, a demonstration problem is provided with step by step instructions. Also available are template spreadsheet at the Southwestern website which are very helpful in understanding some end of chapter exercises.