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Introduction to Cost Accounting

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Learn, practice, and apply job-ready skills with expert guidance
4.5

(188 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
2 hours
Learn at your own pace
Hands-on learning

What you'll learn

  • Apply absorption costing to identify product cost

  • Apply activity-based costing (ABC) to identify product cost

  • Compare traditional and ABC costing methods

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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Cost Accounting Fundamentals

  2. Absorption costing methods

  3. Activity-based costing methods

  4. Traditional costing and ABC comparison

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Bekhruzbek Ochilov, MCSI, PAGRC
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