what is meant by cost accounting? How it is different from
financial accounting

Answer Posted / karthick165

cost accounting -- a branch of accounting dealing with the
classification, recording, allocation, summarization and
reporting of current and prospective costs and analyzing
their behaviors. Cost accounting is frequently used to
facilitate internal decision making and provides tools with
which management can appraise performance and control costs
of doing business.

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