COST ACCOUNTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cost accounting mean? 

• COST ACCOUNTING (noun)
  The noun COST ACCOUNTING has 1 sense:

1. keeping account of the costs of items in production

  Familiarity information: COST ACCOUNTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COST ACCOUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keeping account of the costs of items in production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cost accounting" is a kind of...):

accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cost accounting"):

costing (cost accounting)