Charles Thomas Horngren

Charles Thomas Horngren (October 28, 1926 – October 23, 2011) was an American accounting scholar and professor of accounting at Stanford University, known for his work in "pioneering modern-day management accounting."

Biography Born in Milwaukee, Horngren joined the U.S. Army after high school graduation in 1946. Back in Milwaukee, he obtained his BA in accounting at the Marquette University in 1949. In 1952 he obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School, and in 1955 his PhD from University of Chicago.

Selected publications Horngren, C. T., Sundem, G. L., Peyvandi, A. A., Robertson, W. D., & Fisher, A. (1990). Introduction to management accounting. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Horngren, Charles T., Gary L. Sundem, and William O. Stratton. Introduction to management accounting. (1996). Horngren, Charles T., Alnoor Bhimani, Srikant M. Datar, and George Foster. Management and cost accounting. Harlow: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002/2008. Horngren, C. T., Harrison, W. T., Bamber, L. S., Willis, B., & Jones, B. (2005). Accounting. Pearson Education. Harrison, Walter T., and Charles T. Horngren. Financial accounting. Pearson Education, 2008.

Articles, a selection: Horngren, Charles T. "Marketing of accounting standards." Journal of Accountancy 136.4 (1973): 61-66. Kaplan, Robert S., Shank, J. K., Horngren, C. T., Boer, G., Ferrara, W. L., & Robinson, M. A. (1990). "Contribution margin analysis: no longer relevant/strategic cost management: the new paradigm." Journal of management accounting research, 2(1), 1-32.