Watch Costing Prof. Charles Horngren

August 18, 2008

Business Finance interviewer Steve Player speaks to legendary costing professor Dr. Charles Horngren of Stanford University, whose market-leading textbook, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (first issued in 1962 and now in its 13th edition from Prentice Hall), has been used to train more CFOs than any other text. See related article.

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