Book Description
Hoskin: Financial Accounting: A User Perspective has given a new direction to accounting education in Canada. Through two very successful editions, this book has maintained its unique focus on the uses of accounting information while presenting accounting concepts in a traditional framework. Students learn about underlying accounting concepts and accounting systems and get to apply that information from a user perspective. Unlike other books, Hoskin: Financial Accounting uses the analysis of real companies financial information as the focal point for the user perspective. This unique approach has allowed all students, majors and non-majors alike, to gain the solid understanding of accounting that they will need to succeed in business.
About the Author
Robert E. Hoskin has been an associate professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Connecticut since 1986. In 1990, he spent six months with Price Waterhouse in Hartford as a faculty intern. This lead to the development of a course in property and liability insurance, now published by Price Waterhouse under the name Crash: An Introduction to Property and Liability Insurance. Prior to the University of Connecticut, he was an assistant professor at Fuqua School of Business. In 1979-1980, he was an accounting lecturer at Cornell University and Duke University. Robert Hoskin is the author of 12 papers and publications and the co-author of two financial accounting books. Robert Hoskin received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University, an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Bowling Green State University, and a B.Sc. in Education from Ohio State University. Maureen R. Fizzell, B.Ed., B.Comm., M.Sc., CMA has been teaching at the university level for 18 years, nine years at the University of Saskatchewan and nine years at Simon Fraser University, where she is now Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration. Over her university teaching career, she has taught financial accounting from the introductory to the advanced level. Maureen is an active CMA member serving on the B.C. Board of Directors and the Management Accounting Institute Board from 1997 to 1999. She is currently a member of the CMA Canada National Board of Examiners. As well, she has been a member of the Saskatchewan Provincial Council, critiqued exams and acted as liaison between university students and the Society. During her 18 years, she has received numerous teaching awards. Some of them are: Most Effective Professor in the Classroom Award at the University of Saskatchewan in 1990; Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996; and membership in the Teaching Honour Roll in 1997 at Simon Fraser University.
