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Book Description
The most practical, real-world presentation of cost accounting on the market, this book blends a traditional and proven method of teaching cost accounting with the integration of innovative topics. Cost topics are covered in the context of organizational strategy and operational tactics, as cost management decisions are sensitive to strategies driven by quality, cost, and innovation. Kinney, Prather-Kinsey, and Raiborn reinforce the material with real-world examples and visual illustrations that bring cost management techniques into the student's sphere of understanding. A flexible organization appropriate for either a one- or two- semester course--coupled with clear and abundant visual presentations--allows students to clearly understand difficult topics. The text's revised organizational structure streamlines chapter materials as well as reduces redundancy between cost accounting and other business courses.
About the Author
Dr. Michael Kinney is a native of the rural, sandhills area of Nebraska and received a BA degree from Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska in 1978. Following graduation, Professor Kinney worked as an insurance agent and broker and later as a commodity futures broker. He returned to graduate school in 1984, earning an MS in accounting from the University of Wyoming and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Professor Kinney joined the faculty of accounting at Texas A&M in 1989, and is currently the Price Waterhouse Teaching Excellence Professor of accounting. He teaches undergraduate courses in cost and management accounting and graduate courses in management control systems, corporate tax, and tax strategies. He has received numerous 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). Professor Kinney also received the Southwest Chapter of the Academy of International Business? Distinguished Paper Award for international research. Professor Kinney has authored and co-authored numerous articles in accounting, taxation, and finance. Professor Kinney is married with four children, and he spends his free time sailing the Gulf of Mexico. Jenice Prather-Kinsey is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. She received a BS from Lindenwood College, a Masters in Accounting from University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana and a PhD from the University of Alabama. Professor Prather-Kinsey has taught at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Cape Town in South Africa, University of the Western Cape and is currently at the University of Missouri, School of Accountancy. She teaches and publishes research in Cost and Managerial Accounting and International Accounting. Her refereed academic research is published in ABACUS, Accounting Horizons, Accounting Education: A Journal of Theory Practice and Research, Accounting Education: An International Journal, Accounting Historians Journal, Advances in Accounting, Advances in International Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Issues in Accounting Education, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Education for Business, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Research in Accounting Regulation. She has presented her research across the world including Beijing, China; Coventry, England; Dunedin, New Zealand; Kyoto, Japan; Mexico City, Mexico; Paris, France; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Rome Italy; Sidney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia: Cape Town, South Africa and Vancouver, Canada. Professor Kinsey?s honors include the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants? Outstanding Educator of the Year Award, Faculty Diversity Enhancement Award from the University of Missouri and National Achievement Award in Education from the National Association of Black Accountants. Dr. Cecily A. Raiborn is Professor of Accounting at Loyola University?New Orleans. She received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1975. Professor Raiborn teaches cost, managerial, intermediate, and advanced accounting at the undergraduate level, and financial and managerial accounting, cost management, and performance measurement at the graduate level. Her research interests include 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, Labor Law Journal, and Journal of Business Ethics. She serves on the editorial board of Advances in Management Accounting. In 1991, she received the AICPA/Louisiana CPA Society Outstanding Educator Award. Her interests outside the classroom include traveling, reading, water activities, fishing, decorating, and cooking.
Cost Accounting,Michael R. Kinney,Jenice Prather-Kinsey,Cecily A. Raiborn,South-Western College Pub,0324235011,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Cost accounting,Budgeting & financial management,Business & Economics / Accounting / General
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