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What are the basic purpose of cost accounting?

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Date Posted: 2016/06/18
Mohamed Ghazi CMA
by Mohamed Ghazi CMA , Finance and Budget Manager , Ernst & Young

The most important function of cost management is to help management focus on factors that make the firm successful. The management accountant is an integral part of management, identifying, summarizing, and reporting on the critical success factors that are necessary for the firm’s success. Critical success factors are a limited number of characteristics, conditions, or variables that have a direct and important impact on the efficiency, effectiveness and viability of an organization. They are the aspects of the company’s performance that are essential to its competitive advantage and therefore to its success. Activities related to the critical success factors must be performed at the highest possible level of excellence.

Zaheer uddin Raja
by Zaheer uddin Raja , Accounts Supervisor , Pakistan International Airlines

To be very specific, control is the prime purpose of cost accounting.

Gayasuddin Mohammed
by Gayasuddin Mohammed , Advocate , Practicing Law before High Court at Hyderabad

to identify, regulate and control the production cost.  thanks.

SARATH BALAKRISHNAN KURUNDAZHA
by SARATH BALAKRISHNAN KURUNDAZHA , Customer Service Officer , UAE EXCHANGE &FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD.

1-Ascertainment of cost and determining the selling price

2-Cost control

3-Ascertaining the profitability

4-Planning and decision making

Fayaz Adam
by Fayaz Adam , Senior Accountant , 4K Building Materials Branch ( Dubai Branch)

To accumulate and report on financial information about the performance and financial position.

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