Improving the cost accounting advantage: often poorly understood by undergraduate students, traditional cost accounting is still a valuable and much needed tool. The challenge for academics is to make it engaging.(University of Quebec in Montreal )

CMA Management | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

If you have a bachelor's degree in accounting or in business administration (with a major in accounting), you will remember having taken (or survived, as the case may be) one or two courses that introduced you to the concepts of traditional cost accounting: normal cost, standard cost, custom work and continuous operation costing, to name a few. Do you still get a rash at the mere mention of the word "allocation"? Truth be told, cost accounting courses aren't a pleasant memory for many of us.

Still, according to Jeff Holloway, operations manager with Robert Half ...

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