TY - BOOK AU - Horngren,Charles T. AU - Foster,George TI - Cost accounting: a managerial emphasis SN - 0131797220 (pbk) : AV - HF5686.C8 U1 - 657.42 PY - 1987/// CY - London PB - Prentice-Hall International KW - Cost accounting KW - Cost industrial N1 - Previous ed.: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1982; Bibliography: p940-941. _ Includes index N2 - Cost accounting provides data for three major purposes (1) planning and controlling routine operations; (2) nonroutine decisions, decisions, policy making, and long-range planning; and (3) inventory valuation and income determination. This book gives abundant consideration to all three of these, but emphasis is placed on the first two ER -