Your accountant should be able to advise you on how to get that cost accounting system in place.
That might be your first consultant or it might be a specialist, say in sales training or cost accounting.
If your cost accounting system is not up to snuff, or does not exist at all, where do you begin?
Because all banks except Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi have now chosen historical cost accounting, however, all will report capital levels greater than the 8% minimum.
The federal government has gone even further and exempted EADS from the Buy American Act, the Berry Amendment, the International Trafficking and Arms Regulations, and the Cost Accounting Standards.
As hardly any of them do immunise their stock-option programmes (by buying equal and offsetting options), and were therefore exposed to rising share prices, their true profits, on a full-cost accounting measure, were only 37% of those published, according to Smithers.
Glas Cymru's proposals will cut Welsh Water's cost of capital, its single biggest cost (accounting for a third of customers' bills).
Strolling down the aisle of a trade show in the area of metal fabrication, I chatted with the owner of a cost-accounting software company.
The difference between the two was the accounting cost of shares and stock options employees owned.
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Over the past four years, this faulty accounting cost businesses nearly 45, 000 legally-required H-1B visas.
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Even accounting for the cost of setting up a regulator and a fall in corporation tax paid by the tobacco companies, the researchers estimated there was a large amount of extra tax to be made.
For those that don't know, PPP is a way of measuring the relative value of currencies, accounting for things like cost of living.
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First, economic planners and bankers have to start accounting for the hidden cost of carbon in power plant feasibility studies on their own volition.
In the past, most national accounting standards used historic cost.
The main reason was the one-off impact of an accounting change, and the cost of implementing the firm's GLOBE operational efficiency and performance programme.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that private transportation owning and running a car is the second largest cost for a typical American household, accounting for 16% of expenditures.
In the absence of possible remedies, the OFT doesn't yet want to put the Competition Commission and the accounting firms to all the cost and bother of a lengthy and expensive probe.
Since drilling wells is the only means of finding oil and natural gas, IDCs essentially amount to what any other industry would be able to deduct as a part of its cost of goods sold, a concept of accounting and tax law as old as the tax code itself.
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But cost-plus projects often leave some wiggle room in accounting for fixed costs ( see box, p. 66).
That is, the benefit to the capital market of improved financial information must be weighed against the cost of any changes in economic behavior induced by new accounting rules.
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This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.
Historically, the general partners of private equity funds just held their portfolio at cost, but last year they were forced by new accounting rules to mark their holdings to market.
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Meanwhile, there is a trend in accounting standards away from valuing assets at historic cost (ie, what they cost to buy) towards fair value (ie, what they would fetch if sold).
After accounting for the new excise tax rate, the cost of these vehicles for consumers will increase by 20, 000 rupees to 35, 000 rupees, he added.
The school can use whatever accounting system it deems appropriate to determine the average cost of attendance without controls from the NCAA or Congress for that matter.
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This debt bias is based on the accounting rationale that interest is a tax-deductible cost of doing business while dividends are a non-deductible form of business income.
The education cost would be far higher if college were included, even accounting for children who don't attend college, pay for it themselves or attend low-priced institutions.
Without going into all the accounting intricacies, LIFO understates inventory value, overstates the cost of sales, and therefore lowers reported earnings.
Before enacting the law, says Thomas McCool , head of financial research at the General Accounting Office, Congress did not calculate what it would cost to comply.
The spending bill before Congress contains 9, 000 earmarks, accounting for a tiny fraction of the bill's total cost.
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