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cost accounting
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cost accounting: see accounting accounting, classification, analysis, and interpretation of the financial, or bookkeeping , records of an enterprise. The professional who supplies such services is known as an accountant. Auditing is an important branch of accounting.
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cost accounting [′kȯst ə′kau̇nt·iŋ]
(industrial engineering)
The branch of accounting in which one records, analyzes, and summarizes costs of material, labor, and burden, and compares these actual costs with predetermined budgets and standards.


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``I worked as a cost accountant, then technical typist during the day and played my music at night.
Factors that can get you to commit to a string of mountain-size payments even when a cost accountant can't.
Wayman, 61, joined HP in 1969 as a cost accountant and held a variety of finance positions before being named CFO in 1984.
 
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