Importance of Cost Accounting
The limitations of financial accounting have made the management to realize the
importance of cost accounting. Whatever may be the type of business, it involves expenditure on
labour, materials and other items required for manufacturing and disposing of the product. The
management has to avoid the possibility of waste at each stage. It has to ensure that no machine
remains idle, efficient labour gets due incentive, by-products are properly utilized and costs are
properly ascertained. Besides the management, the creditors and employees are also benefited in
numerous ways by installation of a good costing system.
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