Principles of Factory Cost Keeping (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Principles of Factory Cost Keeping explains how to measure and manage production costs for real-world factory success. This guide, rooted in double-entry principles, shows why accurate cost records are essential and how they help set prices, reduce waste, and improve efficiency. It outlines a practical system for tracking materials, labor, and indirect expenses across stores, manufacturing, and general ledgers.

This edition lays out the structure of a factory cost system, defines key cost elements, and describes how cost books relate to everyday business records. Readers will see how to classify expenditures, split manufacturing costs into materials, direct labor, and overhead, and use dedicated ledgers to keep costs in check. The text emphasizes concrete processes and the flow of information from purchase to finished product.

• How costs are classified and tracked from stores to the general ledger


• Ways to allocate materials, labor, and indirect expenses to production


• Practical methods for recording time, labor costs, and wage payments


• Inventory management concepts, including stores, assemblies, and finished goods

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