cost accounting

NOUN

accounting of production costs

Synonyms

WEAK

cost system cost-accounting system costing managerial accounting

Example Sentences

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Some programs used to evaluate their curricula on a three- or five-year cycle because foundational subjects like financial and cost accounting rarely changed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The first question people ask me about true cost accounting is whether using it will make food more expensive.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

This could hypothetically happen through public subsidies and stricter production standards linked to receipt of government funds, or a true cost accounting formula that took into account all the externalities of feed production.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2023

Once you have that completed, you will apply your preferred cost accounting method to those classifications.

From Encyclopedia.com • Jun. 26, 2018

The set of books containing the cost accounting system of the farm was kept in this desk.

From Hidden Treasure by Simpson, John Thomas