cost accounting

1. 1.

   keeping account of the costs of items in production

   Broaderaccountancy

   Narrowercosting

Questions about cost accounting

What does cost accounting mean?

cost accounting means "keeping account of the costs of items in production".

Is cost accounting a common word?

cost accounting 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.