costing methods

costing methods
The techniques and procedures used in cost accounting and management accounting to obtain the costs of services, products, processes, and cost centres to provide the information required to undertake performance measures, decision making, planning, and control. These techniques include absorption costing, activity-based costing, marginal costing, and process costing

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