cost-accounting system

A new constitution adopted that year called for “a cost-accounting system” for economic management and joint ventures with foreigners in special economic zones.

He is going to install a new cost-accounting system for us.

He sometimes thought, while Subwaying to his office, that if he could only get the ear of Oren Hammer some day and tell him about that cost-accounting system he might get his salary raised to forty-five.

At other and more wakeful moments he amused himself by planning an elaborate cost-accounting system for his firm, the Amalgamated Soap Corporation, known to the ends of the earth as the Suds Trust.

My plan for a cost-accounting system is——" And he limned on his mental canvas that great man, spellbound, enthralled, as he, Horace Nimms, dazzled him with an array of figures, beginning: "Now, let's see, Mr. Hammer.