Talk:Cost accounting

message: As stated in the issues listed below, Cost accounting is a subset financial accounting and used primarily for external reporting purposes.  Whereas management or managerial accounting and it's various costing approaches are used for internal reporting purposes only. The Cost accounting introduction requires substantial edits to correct misleading information.  The only costing application that should remain under Cost accounting is Traditional Standard Costing (TSC) that is used and complies with GAAP for inventory valuation, cost of goods sold, etc. The other approaches need to be removed from this page.  They are properly listed alphabetically in Specific Methodologies under  Management accounting and discussed at length on their own pages.  See Figure 1, in Management accounting for a visual representation of where Cost accounting sits in the hierarchy of Enterprise Financial Management as defined by the International Federation of Accountants. Bewiki777 (talk) 21:07, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Substantial Edits Required on Cost accounting Page'''

message: Seem's biased towards troughoutput accounting vs. ABC, direct costing, lean accounting and other initiatives.
Details on throughoutput accounting belong in it's own page.
196.40.38.104 04:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Biased'' 

message: The intro DOES need to be rewritten. The Engligh grammer is flawed. It sounds like it was written in some language other than English and then translated or written by a non-native English speaker. On top of that... it seems to provide little value in describing what cost accounting is. It's more of a sales pitch on justifying the need for cost accounting.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.29.250.2 (talk) 15:32, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Some issues''' 

message: Total internal management system of any houses will be in dark without implementation of Cost Accounting System.
The price implication of any Product totally depends on the segregation of direct and indirect variables of the Cost. The acurate apportion of cost, gives an accurate figure of price control.
Besides that, with the develop of Competition and globalization of product an Unit or Standardize Cost Accounting System is very much required for transparency of the Stake-holders and to evaluate true & fare benchmarking of their houses.
Capital Cost or fixed cost is one of the volatile words in current throughput system of accounting. Because, nothing is fixed or secured in present life except the duration of service provided by the expenses incurred. In Cost Accounting System these calculation is vital for decision making by management expert.
Asim Mukherjee  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asim Mukherjee (talk • contribs) 15:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost Accounting systems indeed a benchmark in Management.  

message: I added the external link section and included a link to a website that contains also several definitions related to Costs and Costs Accounting, just to provide a different point of view. Some of the data might be similar to this and other articles included in Wikipedia, but its just to give the reader another source to confirm what he has encountered or in a different case, to possibly find what he or she was looking for. I like very much Wikipedia and try to contribute as much as I can, in English and Spanish.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alfonso13 (talk • contribs) 13:56, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link to Cost Accounting web page  

message: I am preparing for a class on engineering economics (civil engineering) which uses a fair amount of cost accounting material. I am trying to work this article into the syllabus but it doesn't lend itself to the task. The terminology varies between the economics, accounting, and engineering practices. It would be helpful to work more of the article into a narrative form. Currently, the article is a bullet list with a few inline citations. The first part of this project will try to rewrite the classification of cost section using the narrative material in The Economics of Business Costs, Walter B. McFarland, The Accounting Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jun., 1940), pp. 196-204, American Accounting Association. The author and others wrote extensively on cost accounting topics. 
*McFarland, Walter B. “The Basic Theory of Standard Costs.” The Accounting Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 1939, pp. 151–158. .  
*McFarland, Walter B. “Cost Analysis for Equipment Replacement.” The Accounting Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 1947, pp. 58–64. .
*Benninger, L. J. “The Traditional vs. the Cost Accounting Concept of Cost.” The Accounting Review, vol. 24, no. 4, 1949, pp. 387–391. .
*Staubus, George J., et al. “Direct, Relevant or Absorption Costing?” The Accounting Review, vol. 38, no. 1, 1963, pp. 64–74.  .
Cheers ... Risk Engineer (talk) 19:29, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed rewrite of cost classification section. Suggestion 

message: I'm relatively new to editing in Wikipedia and I've just noticed, reading this talk page, that there seems to be an unwritten rule to not edit pages even if grammatical errors are spotted. I've unknowingly edited a bunch of things on this page - I hope it doesn't get reverted...
Are there any user-made guidelines for editing that are not written on the Wikipedia FAQ pages that I should know about?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leighla SW (talk • contribs) 15:36, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no such rule. By all means, fix grammatical errors wherever you find them. Do keep WP:ENGVAR in mind, though. For example you should not change 'labor' to 'labour' as you did. - MrOllie (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification