Principles of Cost Accounting - Hardcover

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.

I have used this book for two years now and I really like the fact that I can give students a good solid introduction to the concepts without overwhelming them with the larger, more difficult texts I have used in the past.

I found the end-of-chapter materails to be very good in tems of both quality and quantity. The exercises and problems are thorough in demonstrating the objectives and in providing multiple opportunities for practice, application, and reinforcement of those objectives.

The end-of-chapter materials are great. The questions are very helpful for studying. The exercises and problems are plentiful.