
Horngren's Accounting, 10th edition
Published by Pearson (6 January 2026) © 2025
- Tracie L. Miller Franklin University , Austin Community College
- Brenda Mattison Tri-County Technical College
- Rebecca Tan Australian National University
- Rahat Munir Macquarie University
- Carmel Emanuel Macquarie University
- Tas Hussain Macquarie University
- Nandini Krishna Kumar Macquarie University
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For courses in financial and managerial accounting.
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The most complete and accessible text available for accounting students in Australia and New Zealand.
The 10th edition of Horngren's Accounting delivers a comprehensive, updated learning resource for accounting students featuring contemporary issues, examples, and real-world cases. It emphasises current accounting theories and practices in Australia and New Zealand, meeting all the needs of introductory accounting courses.
The text, along with its learning and teaching materials, offers students and instructors powerful tools for mastering accounting fundamentals. The text's pedagogy and content use leading methods in teaching students critical foundational and emerging topics in the field of accounting, ensuring learners develop a solid foundation in accounting principles while engaging with modern business contexts.
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- Decision guidelines explain why the accounting concepts addressed in the chapter are important to making decisions in a business setting.
- Consistent examples present the same two companies throughout the in-chapter examples. Students will become familiar with the context of these examples and can focus their energy on learning the accounting principles in question.
- Sustainability in action features in most chapters illustrate the types of sustainability management changes taking place in modern businesses.
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- The most up-to-date accounting standards are referenced throughout the text, including the new conceptual framework issued by the Australian Accounting Standards Board in May 2019.
- Updated chapter examples highlight current news and issues faced by organisations (where possible) or highlight how issues of the past remain challenges today.
- End-of-chapter questions have been updated and refreshed.
- Topical issues like big data and accounting analytics, and developments in sustainability in accounting, have been incorporated and are highlighted in boxes in various chapters.
- Connect to: TECHNOLOGY sections have been updated to align with recent developments.
- Chapter 7: Accounting Information Systems has been thoroughly updated to reflect the contemporary use of accounting software systems, including cloud accounting.
- Chapter 8: Internal Control and Cash is updated to reflect increased electronic cash transactions and the challenges posed by global e-commerce.
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Table of contents
- The Role of Accounting in Decision Making
- Recording Business Transactions
- The Adjusting Process
- Completing the Accounting Cycle
- Retailing Operations
- Retail Inventory
- Accounting Information Systems
- Internal Control and Cash
- Receivables
- Non-current Assets: Property, Plant and Equipment, and Intangibles
- Current Liabilities and Payroll
- Non-current Liabilities, Debentures Payable and Classification of Liabilities on the Balance Sheet
- Partnerships
- Companies: Formation and Shareholders' Equity
- Companies: Capital Management and the Income Statement
- The Cash Flow Statement
- The Framework of Accounting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Introduction to Managerial Accounting and the Master Budget
- Job Costing
- Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
- Short-term Business Decisions
- Capital Investment Decisions
Author bios
Australian authors:
Rebecca Tan (BCom Hons, PhD, FCPA) is Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the Australian National University (ANU). Rebecca is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She has taught various financial and management accounting courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level at the ANU. Her specialist teaching areas include forensic accounting and advanced management accounting. She has comprehensive experience in teaching, and expertise in education given her previous role as Deputy Director (Education) in the ANU Research School of Accounting. Her research focuses on teamwork in accounting education, management accounting processes and practices, accounting policy choices in the financial accounting and reporting area, corporate sustainability reporting, and organisational behaviour research. She has had articles published in journals such as Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, British Accounting Review, International Journal of Accounting, Australian Accounting Review and Asian Review of Accounting. Rebecca is co-author of Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis and has also authored and co-authored 16 MYOB Accounting Practice Sets.
Professor Rahat Munir is the Head of Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University Sydney. He is FCA (Chartered Accountants Australian & New Zealand), FCPA (Certified Practising Accountant Australia) and has a PhD from Macquarie University, Sydney. He is also a forensic accounting specialist with financial crime investigative skills. Prior to his academic journey he held several senior administrative positions in the banking sector as well as continuing to pursue an active career in research. He has published articles in top-tier journals globally, books, book chapters, monographs, conference papers and commissioned reports. Although the bulk of his research focuses on management accounting and controls, he has also published in important cognate areas such as education, CSR, corporate governance, corporate culture and research expertise related to UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has conducted research in a wide range of industry and country contexts. Professor Munir has delivered scores of invited/keynote presentations, and his expert opinions has been featured in radio, television, newspapers, newsletters, and web outlets worldwide. He has supervised to completion over two dozen higher-degree research students, including PhDs, and assessed scores of doctoral students' theses from Australian and international universities. Professor Munir's sustained excellence in teaching and research has been recognised through international awards. He has served on the panel for Faculty/Course Reviews of various universities in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the USA. With his strong engagement with industry, he leads Australia-wide most prestigious CFO Forum, Women Thought Leadership, Business Leaders Roundtables and Think Tanks.
Nandini Krishna Kumar (BCom Hons, MBA (UK), SFHEA, FCPA, ACA (CA ANZ), FCA, FGIA) is the Director (Education) and Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance at Macquarie Business School and previously served as Lecturer in the Division of Commerce, City University of Hong Kong. Nandini is a Fellow of CPA Australia, a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), and the recipient of the Macquarie University Vice Chancellor's Learning and Teaching Student Nominated Award (2020). Drawing on her rich experience in Hong Kong and Australia, she has taught managerial and financial accounting courses across all levels of education at Macquarie University and is intimately familiar with the curriculum, literature and pedagogical needs of a diverse student audience. Nandini joined academia after working in the industry as a professional Chartered Accountant. She is an active professional mentor and was chosen as 'Mentor of the Year 2023' by CPA Australia.
Tasneem (Tas) Husain (BCom, MBA, MAppFin, MRes) is Lecturer in Accounting at Macquarie Business School (MQBS) at Macquarie University. She has taught various financial and management accounting courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level at MQBS. Her specialist teaching areas include financial accounting and reporting, and financial management. She previously worked as a trader in base and precious metals, trading forwards and futures for a metal smelter in the UAE on the London Metal Exchange. She therefore has comprehensive experience in teaching and expertise in education linking both theory and practice, given her corporate background, her previous role as Course Director for Master of Accounting at MQBS and Manager of the Office of Institutional Research and Quality at University of Wollongong in Dubai.
Carmel Emanuel (B Econ (Accounting Hons), MPhil, CPA) is a Teaching and Leadership Lecturer at Macquarie University. Prior to joining Macquarie University, Carmel taught at UNSW Sydney and the University of Notre Dame Sydney. Carmel is a fellow of CPA Australia, and joined academia after working for 17 years in a medium-tier chartered accounting firm in Sydney and then for two publicly listed multinational organisations in various financial and management accounting and leadership roles. Her teaching experience is diverse, having taught and co-ordinated both financial and management accounting units at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and teaching MBA students. Since joining Macquarie University, Carmel's teaching has focused on first-year accounting, redevelopment of accounting units and assessments, and enhancing student engagement by incorporating active learning within her lectures and tutorials. She is a passionate accounting educator whose focus is to assist her students in developing successful careers in accounting.
US authors:
Tracie L. Miller-Nobles is an associate professor at Austin Community College. She has teaching experience at the community college and university level. Prof. Miller-Nobles received her master's degree in accounting from Texas A&M University and is working on her doctoral degree in Adult Education also from Texas A&M University. Her research interest includes financial literacy education, adult learning theories, and online learning. She has public accounting experience with Deloitte Tax LLP.
Prof. Miller-Nobles is on the Board of Directors for the American Accounting Association (AAA) as Director-Focusing on Members. She has served in leadership roles for AAA's Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum section and AAA's Two Year College section and was a member of the Pathway's Commission on Accounting Higher Education. Prof. Miller-Nobles is also on the Board of Directors for Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges (TACTYC) as Secretary/Webmaster. She is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Consumer Financial Education Advocates committee. At the state level, she serves on the Relations with Educational Institutes for the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TXCPA).
Tracie has received several teaching and professional awards including the AAA J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook Prize, TXCPA Outstanding Accounting Educator, TXCPA Rising Star, and the TXCPA Austin Chapter CPA of the Year.
Brenda L. Mattison has a Bachelor's degree in education and a Master's degree in accounting, both from Clemson University. She is currently an Accounting Instructor at Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, South Carolina. Brenda previously served as Accounting Program Coordinator at TCTC and has prior experience teaching accounting at Robeson Community College, Lumberton, North Carolina; University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Rasmussen Business College, Eagan, Minnesota. She also has accounting work experience in retail and manufacturing businesses.
Brenda is a member of the American Accounting Association, Institute of Management Accountants, South Carolina Technical Education Association, and Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors as Vice President of Conference Administration of Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges.
Brenda previously served as Faculty Fellow at Tri-County Technical College. She has presented at state, regional, and national conferences on topics including active learning, course development, and student engagement.
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