Discover what applied cost means in accounting, how it works with allocation rates, and see an example to understand its role ...

Businesses use the high-low method of accounting when they want to accurately calculate the variable and fixed costs for a certain amount of sales. If a business finds that certain sales levels are ...

Accountants can use any one of three methods for calculating inventory value and cost to keep a business in compliance with accepted accounting standards. Each method can present different problems ...

The world of microeconomics and business decision-making hinges upon a key concept: marginal cost. In the simplest terms, marginal cost represents the expense incurred to produce an additional unit of ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. David is comprehensively experienced in many facets of financial and legal ...

Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software.

Cost accounting is an essential activity for laboratory animal facility management. Reasons for carrying out cost accounting include establishing the actual costs of facility operations; assessing ...

Cost accounting in healthcare has never been more important, but is often considered too difficult, expensive or resource intensive for many healthcare organizations. Additionally, other critical ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) introduced a new accounting standard that requires companies to present service cost as the only operating component of periodic pension costs on the ...

In a prior article, I wrote about the appeal of counting the Federal Government as a customer, because of the size of the government’s budget, as well as its creditworthiness. In that article, I ...

In honor of the release of the 6th Edition of the Government Contracts Compliance Handbook, we are sharing six essential tips for complying with the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). CAS compliance is ...