Cost Accounting with Integrated Data Analytics takes the approach that you need to reach students in order to engage and effectively teach them to make meaning of costing concepts. Through storytelling, students develop a deeper understanding of cost accounting fundamentals, allowing them to apply their knowledge to modern business scenarios and develop the competencies and decision-making skills needed to become the future accounting professional.

Throughout Cost Accounting, students also work through a variety of data analysis applications that allow them to develop their decision-making skills within real-world contexts. Through assignments and integrated cases that leverage market-leading technology, students learn how to make informed business decisions and think critically about data.

KAREN CONGO FARMER, MA, CPA, CA (CANADA)
Raised on a farm in southwestern Ontario, Canada, I learned from an early age the value of hospitality, music, seasons, finishing a job, and telling a good story.
McMaster University introduced me to a professor who inspired a love of accounting. She was authentic and warm—a role model for my future teaching. As an auditor at Ernst & Young, I earned my CPA designation and experienced business and networking firsthand. Next, I held a dual role at the beautiful Western University: Accountant by day in Financial Services, and accounting lecturer in the evening. Soon enough, I became a full-time lecturer. In addition, a 10+ year instructor role with CPA Ontario, preparing students for their professional exams, was pivotal to my development.

AMY J. FREDIN, PHD, CPA, CIA
My story begins in a small town in western Minnesota, where I grew up with music and sports, camping and boating, family time and fierce friendships. I studied music and accounting at the College of St. Benedict and from there worked in public accounting and obtained my CPA. I then went back to school for my MBA at St. Cloud State University. While completing that degree, I started teaching in the accounting program at Alexandria Technical College. It was there that my love for teaching began.
Five years later, my story moves to Nebraska, where I pursued a PhD in accounting at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln (go Big Red!). After I completed that degree, St. Cloud State invited me back, this time to join the Accounting Department as a faculty member. In my more than a dozen years so far at SCSU, I have enjoyed teaching, researching, working with students and colleagues, leading case discussions in executive training programs, and connecting with employers in the community.