Principles of Cost Accounting, Fifth Edition

This text provides students with a thorough, but concise understanding of cost concepts, cost behavior, and cost accounting techniques as applied to manufacturing and service businesses. The principles and procedures of job order costing, process costing, and standard costing are presented in a logical yet brief manner.

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.