Charles T. Horngren Stanford University

Charles T. Horngren co-authored Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 9/e with George Foster and Srikant M. Datar.

Charles T. Horngren is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus of Accounting at Stanford University. A graduate of Marquette University, he received his MBA from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from Marquette University and DePaul University.

A Certified Public Accountant, Horngren served on the Accounting Principles Board for six years, the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council for five years, and the Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for three years. In addition, he served as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Government Accounting Standards Board for six years.

A member of the American Accounting Association, Horngren has also served as its President and Director of Research. He received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1973, when the association initiated an annual series of such awards.

The California Certified Public Accountants Foundation gave Horngren its Faculty Excellence Award in 1975 and its Distinguished Professor Award in 1983. He is the first person to have received both awards. In 1985, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants presented him with its first Outstanding Educator Award. Five years later, he was elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.

In 1993, Horngren was named Accountant of the Year, Education, by the national professional accounting fraternity, Beta Alpha Psi.

Professor Horngren is a member of the National Association of Accountants, and served on its research planning committee for three years. He was also a member of the Board of Regents, Institute of Management Accounting, which administers the Certified Management Accountant examinations.

Charles T. Horngren, the Consulting Editor for the Prentice Hall Series in Accounting, is the coauthor of six other books published by Prentice Hall: Principles of Financial and Management Accounting: A Sole Proprietorship Approach and Principles of Financial and Management Accounting: A Corporate Approach, 1994 (with Walter T. Harrison, Jr., and Michael A. Robinson); Introduction to Financial Accounting, Fifth Edition, 1993 (with Gary L. Sundem and John Elliott), Introduction to Management Accounting, Ninth Edition, 1993 (with Gary L. Sundem), Financial Accounting, 1992, and Accounting, Second Edition, 1993 (with Walter T. Harrison, Jr.).

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