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  2. Cost accounting - Wikipedia

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    An important part of standard cost accounting is a variance analysis, which breaks down the variation between actual cost and standard costs into various components (volume variation, material cost variation, labor cost variation, etc.) so managers can understand why costs were different from what was planned and take appropriate action to ...

  3. Book value - Wikipedia

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    An asset's initial book value is its actual cash value or its acquisition cost. Cash assets are recorded or "booked" at actual cash value. Assets such as buildings, land and equipment are valued based on their acquisition cost, which includes the actual cash cost of the asset plus certain costs tied to the purchase of the asset, such as broker fees.

  4. Activity-based costing - Wikipedia

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    Following strong initial uptake, ABC lost ground in the 1990s compared to alternative metrics, such as Kaplan's balanced scorecard and economic value added.An independent 2008 report concluded that manually driven ABC was an inefficient use of resources: it was expensive and difficult to implement for small gains, and a poor value, and that alternative methods should be used. [4]

  5. Cost auditing - Wikipedia

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    Verification of the cost accounting records such as the accuracy of the cost accounts, cost reports, cost statements, cost data and costing technique; Examination of these records to ensure that they adhere to the cost accounting principles, plans, procedures and objective; To report to the government on optimum utilisation of national resources

  6. Book report - Wikipedia

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    A book report is an essay discussing the contents of a book, written as part of a class assignment issued to students in schools. There is a difference between a book report and a book review. A report includes a larger outline, and a review stays on the topic of the book.

  7. Cost breakdown analysis - Wikipedia

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    Labor costs are direct costs, that is, they can be identified among the total cost and assigned to a certain cost objective. [1] Labor costs are defined by categories (e.g. service labor or manufacturing labor), the attribution of a labor rate for each category, and a certain number of labor hours. [1]

  8. How much it really costs to tidy up like Marie Kondo - AOL

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    Cost: $412.49 for Threshold Gilford Six-Drawer Dresser (on sale) Sometimes, you simply have too much stuff to neatly store in the closets and drawers you already have, which can result in messy piles.

  9. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.