Thursday 9 July 2015

What is Cost Accounting

What is cost Accounting?
Cost accounting primarily deals with the cost of product or service. Cost accounting supports the management for performing the management function. Cost accounting also provide useful information for financial reporting.

What are advantages of cost accounting?
The advantage of cost accounting includes setting price, product profitability, cost control, evaluating performance and allocation of resources.

What is difference between cost and Management accounting?
Management accounting is broader term than cost accounting. Cost accounting primarily focuses over the cost structure and costing, where management accounting meets the management information requirement for planning, controlling, decision making.