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cost accounting

NOUN
accounting of production costs
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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

In many ways, true cost accounting is a modern and improved version of cost-benefit analysis, a method embedded in governmental decision-making in most advanced economies around the world.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2024

The key is a method called true cost accounting, which examines the economic, environmental, social and health impacts of food production and consumption to produce a broader picture of its costs and benefits.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2024

To fully complete the calculations needed for 263A, you’ll be required to use figures and tables that are appropriate for the cost accounting method used in your specific category.

From Encyclopedia.com Jun. 26, 2018

Each separate business, the bakeries, the pool room, the meat shop, was put on a cost accounting basis and the manager knew just which one was making or losing money.

From Consumers' Cooperative Societies in New York State by Consumers' League of New York, The



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