University Instruction in Industrial Cost Accounting.

Abstract The remainder of this article is addressed to the task of considering a course of this kind which is adapted to the use of university schools of business administration, a course to meet the needs of both advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The method which is described here uses several different means of instruction. One way in which a text book has been used to good advantage by the writer in the instruction of his students has been to assign to them the entire book to be read rapidly during the first week, indicating to them the parts which can be skipped at this first reading as well as the parts which should be glanced at more thoroughly than the others. It is often satisfactory to assign readings therein and then give the students a chance to ask questions in class about any of the points which have bothered them. It will often be found that such questions show that the students have failed to read the text with sufficient care aid directions to look up the answers to their own questions.