How long does it take to read Cost Accounting?
Cost Accounting by Charles T. Horngren takes about 15 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 56 minutes
A long haul
First published 2012. 869 pages, about 238,975 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Chapter 1. The Accountant’s Role in the Organization Chapter 2. An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes Chapter 3. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Chapter 4. Job Costing Chapter 5. Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management Chapter 6. Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting Chapter 7. Flexible Budgets, Direct-Cost Variances, and Management Control Chapter 8. Flexible Budgets, Overhead Cost Variances, and Management Control Chapter 9. Inventory Costing and Capacity Analysis Chapter 10. Determining How Costs Behave Chapter 11. Decision Making and Relevant Information Chapter 12. Pricing Decisions and Cost Management Chapter 13. Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, and Strategic Profitability Analysis Chapter 14. Cost Allocation, Customer-Profitability Analysis, and Sales-Variance Analysis Chapter 15. Allocation of Support-Department Costs, Common, Costs, and Revenues Chapter 16. Cost Allocation: Join Products and Byproducts Chapter 17. Process Costing Chapter 18. Spoilage, Rework, and Scrap Chapter 19. Balanced Scorecard: Quality, Time, and the Theory of Constraints Chapter 20. Inventory Management, Just-in-Time, and Simplified Costing Methods Chapter 21. Capital Budgeting and Cost Analysis Chapter 22. Management Control Systems, Transfer Pricing, and Multinational Considerations Chapter 23. Performance Measurement, Compensation, and Multinational Considerations.
Subjects: Cost accounting