Cost accounting may not be the most exciting way for a business owner to spend a Friday night. However, understanding the basics of cost accounting can help you track costs, increase profits, and ...

Every business has a mission and specific goals. Without proper budgeting, meeting those objectives would be impossible. As a business owner, you want to increase your return on investment, so that ...

Auditing costs are going up for companies, in part due to new accounting standards for revenue recognition and leases, according to a new survey. Processing Content The survey, by FloQast, a provider ...

So where’s the relief? Public companies expected a spike in audit costs in 2004 as they moved to become compliant with rules under Sarbanes-Oxley accounting reform. The requirements for setting up ...

Not all forms of accounting are the same. Some focus on costs, others on audits and some focus on taxes. While having a solid handle on your business’s finances is essential, how you track business ...

Almost without exception, companies make the claim that they won’t make their auditor decision based solely on fees. While fees are important, those charged with corporate governance (typically the ...

Until now, cost accounting as a useful tool in hospital financial decision-making has been widely ignored. Although the RCC (ratio of cost to charges) approach still used by 70 percent of healthcare ...

In a prior article, I wrote about the appeal of counting the Federal Government as a customer, because of the size of the government’s budget, as well as its creditworthiness. In that article, I ...