cost accounting

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The hope is that because these two methods have many similarities, it should be relatively easy for governments to upgrade to true cost accounting as it becomes more widely adopted.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

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

Under so-called "amortized cost" accounting, total returns from fixed income products are spread out evenly, with the goal of delivering steady gains irrespective of bond price fluctuations.

From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2022

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

From Encyclopedia.com • Jun. 26, 2018

The Government stated this proposition when it first undertook to put the space program on a priority basis: Scientific research has never been amenable to rigorous cost accounting in advance.

From The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics.