Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Cost accounting refers to the accounting procedures designed to assess the costs of production a business incurs. Managers typically use cost accounting as a budgeting tool for establishing cost ...

From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

From a reader who is a dear friend of mine: There are obvious many disparate approaches to asset allocation. Similar to the disparate approaches of any style of investing, each asset allocation ...