Standard costing is an accounting technique that breaks overspending and underspending on materials, labor and overhead cost into their price and quantity components. For example, a manager may notice ...

Plastics processors are fortunate to have several options for managing and calculating costs. In part one of this series, we discussed the benefits of a production profit contribution model. This ...

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