Cost Accounting Functions & Features

Cost accounting analyzes corporate costs related to overhead, products, and manufacturing orders. It provides a variety of costing approaches such as standard, FIFO, LIFO, average, target, and activity-based costing (ABC). The software should support the following functionality: cost data; cost allocation definitions; cost allocation process; cost management; cost and sales price calculation; activity based costing (ABC); and activity based cost tracing and tracking.. Cost Accounting Functions & Features are an important module of the comprehensive ERP RFP Template for Discrete Manufacturing.

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The Cost Accounting Functions & Features comprise the following elements:

Cost Allocation Processing
Feature and functions covered Allocates actual or budgeted costs to appropriate ledgers;Allocates to expense, revenue, asset, asset reduction, liability, capital, and capital reduction accounts;Allocations to organizational segments determined by function, profits, etc.;Flexible ledger costing categories;Allocates cost by multiplier, quantity, or amount;Cost allocations driven by formulas using unlimited, statistical, fixed amount, and period-to-date factors, as well as unlimited nesting;. Cost Allocation Processing, Cost Accounting Functions & Features
Cost Allocations
Cost allocations are the identification and distribution of cost in a multipurpose project. Cost Allocations, Cost Accounting Functions & Features
Cost Data
Major modules include Maintains multiple calculation codes for various algorithms used in calculating different cost data.;Overhead rates;Uses parameters to determine whether a work center rate or task rate will be used in the calculation of operation rates;Surcharges can be applied as fixed amounts over the nominal cost, percent of total cost, etc;. Cost Data, Cost Accounting Functions & Features
Management of Costs
Feature and functions covered Costs managed using both standard and average costing;Maintains or updates the current or average cost of an item or service;Plans production costs based on demand and forecasting;Assigns user-defined number of cost elements for each cost category;Vertically summarizes cost elements throughout product structures;. Management of Costs, Cost Accounting Functions & Features

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Cost Accounting Functions & Features

Cost Allocation Processing

Cost Allocations

Cost Data

Management of Costs