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CHARLES T. HORNGREN, SRIKANT M. DATAR and GEORGE FOSTER, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Eleventh Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003, pp. xxiv, 856).
This text is intended for one- or two-term cost accounting courses, as well as for M.B.A.-level managerial accounting courses. Now in its 11th edition, it retains the strengths of prior editions-which include a strong user orientation, ease of understandability, flexibility of topic presentation, extensive use of realworld examples and excellent end-of-chapter materials-while adding many updates and enhancements.
The book has six parts that contain a total of 23 chapters: (1) Cost Accounting Fundamentals, (2) Tools for Planning and Control, (3) Cost Information for Decisions, (4) Cost Allocations and Revenues, (5) Quality and JIT, and (6) Investment Decision and Management Control Systems. The first three parts are appropriate for a traditional one-term course, while the remaining...