⟩ Explain Cost Accounting. What are the objectives of doing it?
Cost Accounting is the process of classifying and recording of expenditure incurred during the operations of the organization in a systematic way, in order to ascertain the cost of a cost center with the intention to control the cost.
Following are the basic three objectives of Cost Accounting:
1) Ascertainment of Cost and Profitability
2) Cost Control
3) Presentation of information for managerial decision making.