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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

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

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

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.



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