The Accountant's Dictionary
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ABC usually refers to activity-based costing, a costing method that assigns overhead based on the activities that drive cost.
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• accounting, finance
absorption costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
activity-based costing (ABC) is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
actual costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
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COGS, or cost of goods sold, is the direct cost assigned to the goods or services delivered to customers during the reporting period.
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• accounting, finance, inventory
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direct costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
F
full costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
J
job costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
job order costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
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normal costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
P
process costing system is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
S
standard costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
T
traditional costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
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• accounting, finance, management-accounting
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variable costing is a cost accounting term used to measure, assign, analyze, or control the cost of operations, inventory, or production.
The Accountant's Dictionary
• accounting, finance, management-accounting