Unit 17: Cost Accounting

Accountant counting on an abacus
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Basic activities (computer-graded)
Vocabulary Builder Activity

Students should be familiar with the following vocabulary before continuing on to the activities and exercises:

  • Anticipate
  • Appreciable
  • Attributable to
  • Bottom-line
  • Breakeven point
  • Budget
  • Classify
  • Cost accounting
  • Cost reduction
  • Costs incurred
  • Feasibility
  • Implement
  • Matching principle
  • Notional
  • Opportunity costs
  • Overall
  • Project
  • Relative
  • Successive
  • Underlying
Reading Comprehension: Cost accounting

This unit discusses cost accounting and how it differs from financial accounting. We try to carefully explain the key vocabulary and different approaches.

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