What does costing mean?
Definitions for costing
cost·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
costingnoun
cost accounting
Wiktionary
costingnoun
The estimation of the cost of a process or product.
Wikipedia
costing
Cost accounting is defined as "a systematic set of procedures for recording and reporting measurements of the cost of manufacturing goods and performing services in the aggregate and in detail. It includes methods for recognizing, classifying, allocating, aggregating and reporting such costs and comparing them with standard costs." (IMA) Often considered a subset of managerial accounting, its end goal is to advise the management on how to optimize business practices and processes based on cost efficiency and capability. Cost accounting provides the detailed cost information that management needs to control current operations and plan for the future.Cost accounting information is also commonly used in financial accounting, but its primary function is for use by managers to facilitate their decision-making.
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Costing is a system or method of calculating and determining the total cost of producing a product or providing a service. This includes the cost of raw materials, labor, overheads, and any other direct or indirect expenses. Costing helps in price determination, budget planning, cost control, and financial analysis and is a key aspect of accounting, finance, and economics in a business operation.
Webster Dictionary
Costing
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Editors Contribution
costing
The cost of a process, commodities, goods, products or services.
The business costing was easily created and provided financial information that the business needed to move forward.
Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2020
costingverb
Verb form of the word cost.
The costing was accurate, specific and thorough.
Submitted by MaryC on May 2, 2020
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'costing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4244
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Anagrams for costing »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of costing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of costing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of costing in a Sentence
For less than.1 % of what this virus is costing America, every American could have a whole slew of these tests in their homes.
I mean we have a president sitting in the white house right now. He's taking so many vacations its costing the tax payers dollars, what has he done for America?
Meanwhile, that war in Ukraine having quite the impact here at home, where just about everything is costing more these days, in some cases a lot more.
It's costing us money to repair our cars from damaged roads and bridges, it's costing us money( on time) wasted in traffic -- costing us money on gasoline that we have to spend because we're just sitting wasting it idling.
What Bill Barr recently said is outrageous, i will tell you what takes away your freedom: not being able to see your kid, not being able to go to the football game or baseball game, not seeing your mom or dad sick in the hospital, not being able to do the things, that's what is costing us our freedom.
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- kostkalkulo, kostotaksoEsperanto
- cosgadh, cosgScottish Gaelic
- ವೆಚ್ಚವಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆKannada
- стоимостьRussian
- вартістьUkrainian
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