Cost Accounting, Student Value Edition Author: Charles T. Horngren | Language: English | ISBN:
0132567466 | Format: PDF
Cost Accounting, Student Value Edition Description
Note: this is a 3 hole punched, unbound edition
The text that defined the cost accounting market.
Horngren’s Cost Accounting defined the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently integrating the most current practice and theory into the text. This acclaimed, market-leading text emphasizes the basic theme of “different costs for different purposes,” and reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management.
- Loose Leaf: 896 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 14 edition (January 17, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132567466
- ISBN-13: 978-0132567466
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I used this for a managerial course this past summer. First of all, this book is overpriced. Secondly, it is very dry, uninteresting, and a pain to read. The 13th edition covers the same material but the sneaky publishers changed up the numbers in the HW so you can't exactly use the 13th edition if the professor is assigning HW from the 14th. I think this is unethical and I think charging what they do for books like this should be a crime. Other than the HW, both editions cover the same material.
According to my professor and TA, this is an excellent book for managerial accounting. As a student, I am telling you that this book will frustrate you and make you angry because it is needlessly complicated. This is also compounded if you have poor instructors (like I had).
This is not a book you can use to teach yourself. You must go to class if you are using this book. After the first two chapters, the rest of the book will seem like a foreign language to you because it is all formula-based. Some people think that accounting is just adding and subtracting numbers; this book will dispel that myth by chapter three. The only way you are going to pass a class with this book is if you have talented professors or if you get yourself some tutoring. For example, in practice, the concept of ABC costing makes sense and I could probably explain it to you using some real world examples like manufacturing an iPhone or a similar popular product. This book takes ABC costing and it just makes it hard because it doesn't use real world examples and it does not take the extra step of simplifying the steps for you or giving you the bigger picture.
Each homework problem takes almost a half hour to complete and some of them are pretty hard.
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