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Cost Accounting Arizona

Cost accounting is the accounting process of recording, tracking and analyzing the costs associated with an organization in Arizona. There are three basic approaches to cost accounting explains this site will explain all three in detail.

1. Local Companies

2. Cost Accounting - Info

3. Fixed Cost

4. Origins

5. Featured Local Company

1. Local Companies

Desert Rose Tax & Accounting, PC
520-748-1806
6420 East Broadway, Suite B-100
Tucson, AZ

CPA-ON-CALL
623-825-6590
20165 N. 67th Ave.Ste. 122A-#214
Glendale, AZ

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
602-364-8000
1850 North Central Avenue, Suite 700
Phoenix, AZ

Smart Numbers Consulting
480-603-7535
3400 N. Alma School Rd
Chandler, AZ

Fraudwise
(602) 264-5844
1702 E. Highland, Suite 100
Phoenix, AZ

Chiropractic On-Call Services
480-209-1976
Chiropractic Care Where You Are
Scottsdale, AZ

Jame C Sell, PC
(623) 478-8889
1850 N. 95th Ave
Phoenix, AZ

Accounting & Finance Professionals, Inc.
602-306-4473
1295 W. Washington Street, #103
Tempe, AZ

Bottomline Bookkeeping
602-799-3113
6042 E. Blue Ridge Drive
Cave Creek, AZ

Capital Connection
480-343-9520
P.O. Box 11923
Tempe, AZ

2. Cost Accounting - Info

An accountant who keeps records of the costs of production and distribution.

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Cost accounting is the process of tracking, recording and analyzing costs associated with the activity of an organization, where cost is defined as 'required time or resources'. Costs are measured in units of currency by convention.

There are now at least three approaches: standard costing, activity-based costing (discussed here), and throughput accounting.

3. Fixed Cost

A cost that remains constant, regardless of any change in a company's activity.

A good example is a lease payment. If you are leasing a building at $2,000 per month, then you will pay that amount each month, no matter how well or how poorly the business is doing.

4. Origins

Costs were originally considered fixed (the term comes from a Latin root meaning "constant"). In larger organizations, some costs tend to remain the same even during busy periods, while others rise and fall with volume of work. A more convenient way of categorizing these costs is to define them as either fixed or variable. Fixed costs were associated with the business administration, and did not change during quiet or busy times. Variable costs were associated with productive work, and naturally rose and fell with business activity.

In the early twentieth century, as organizations began getting more complex, managers needed a simple way to make decisions about products and pricing. Since most costs at the time were variable, managers could simply total the variable costs for a product and use this as a rough guide for decision-making.

For example: In order to make a railway coach a company needed to buy $60 in raw materials and components, and pay 6 laborers $40 each: total variable costs of $300. If managers knew that making a coach required spending $300, then they couldn't sell below that level without losing money. Any price above $300 became a contribution to the fixed costs of the company (say $1000 per month for rent, insurance and owner's salary). So the company could sell 5 coaches for $3000 or 10 coaches for $4500 and make a profit of $1500 in both cases.

5. Featured Local Company

Lohman Company, PLLC

(480) 813-2944
1630 South Stapley Drive
Mesa, AZ
Lohman Company, PLLC is a full service certified public accounting and business consulting firm which focuses its practice on serving owner-managed, privately owned companies in a wide range of industries with annual sales volumes ranging from start-up to greater than $100 milllion

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Cost Accounting Arizona

1. Local Companies

2. Cost Accounting - Info

3. Fixed Cost

4. Origins

5. Featured Local Company