cost accountant

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   a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production

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Questions about cost accountant

What does cost accountant mean?

cost accountant means "a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production".

Is cost accountant a common word?

cost accountant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.