The Institute of Management Accountants has released a new report explaining how accountants can improve their organization’s costing models, tools and information to support better decision making.

A process costing system is a technique used within the manufacturing industry to determine the total production cost of a unit of merchandise. It is particularly used in environments where production ...

Labor costing systems are methods of resource allocation to both pay employees and ensure a business achieves the highest profit possible from wages paid. A labor costing system can use process cost ...

The industry buzzword “rightsizing” has largely been associated with a focus on shrinking equipment fleets, yet one area that is regularly overlooked and arguably just as important to consider is the ...

Knowing costs is the price of admission to the construction industry. We simply cannot survive if we do not know, or are not able to estimate, the cost of the work and the cost of the resources used.

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Transportation Costing Group (TCG) announces an upgrade to the LTL Cost Information System, the less-than-truckload application of TCG's motor carrier Transportation Costing Group (TCG) announces an ...

TCG, an SMC3 company and providers of Activity-Based Costing and Profitability Management Tools for truckload and less-than-truckload motor carriers, announced that Old Dominion Freight Line has ...

Cost accounting got you down?You're not alone. As much as 80 percent of Amercan management accountants agree that their current methods just aren't good enough for current business. With that ...

The Surface Transportation Board on April 29 issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), URCS Data Reporting (Docket No. EP 769), “to codify a longstanding voluntary practice of data reporting by ...