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Princeton's WordNet

  1. costingnoun

    cost accounting

Wiktionary

  1. costingnoun

    The estimation of the cost of a process or product.

Wikipedia

  1. costing

    Cost accounting is defined as "a systematic set of procedures for recording and reporting measurements of the cost of manufacturing goods and performing services in the aggregate and in detail. It includes methods for recognizing, classifying, allocating, aggregating and reporting such costs and comparing them with standard costs." (IMA) Often considered a subset of managerial accounting, its end goal is to advise the management on how to optimize business practices and processes based on cost efficiency and capability. Cost accounting provides the detailed cost information that management needs to control current operations and plan for the future.Cost accounting information is also commonly used in financial accounting, but its primary function is for use by managers to facilitate their decision-making.

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  1. costing

    Costing is a system or method of calculating and determining the total cost of producing a product or providing a service. This includes the cost of raw materials, labor, overheads, and any other direct or indirect expenses. Costing helps in price determination, budget planning, cost control, and financial analysis and is a key aspect of accounting, finance, and economics in a business operation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Costing

    of Cost

Editors Contribution

  1. costing

    The cost of a process, commodities, goods, products or services.

    The business costing was easily created and provided financial information that the business needed to move forward.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2020  


  2. costingverb

    Verb form of the word cost.

    The costing was accurate, specific and thorough.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 2, 2020  

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    Rank popularity for the word 'COSTING' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4244

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Anagrams for COSTING »

  1. gnostic

  2. Gnostic

  3. contigs

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of COSTING in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of COSTING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of COSTING in a Sentence

  1. Commerce Penny Pritzker:

    I hope then that means we're done and we have resolved this problem because it is costing a lot of money predominantly to ... small and medium-sized businesses that depend on Safe Harbour.

  2. Yvonne Yen:

    We trying to move, because the property tax is costing me a thousand dollars a month, but we have no place to move.

  3. Cliven Bundy:

    I want to emphasis that the American people are wondering why they can't seem to get ahead or why everything is costing more and you are getting less, and that is because the federal government is taking and using the land and resources, and if it is continued, it will put the people in poverty.

  4. South Carolina:

    While oil and gas exploration could bring in billions of dollars, doing it without adequate study and precautions could end up costing billions of dollars and cause irreversible damage to our economy and coast.

  5. Kimberly Karol:

    I see this as a way to undermine the public confidence in the mail service, it's not saving costs. We're spending more time trying to implement these policy changes. And it's, in our offices, costing more over time.

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