Your accountant should be able to advise you on how to get that cost accounting system in place.

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If your cost accounting system is not up to snuff, or does not exist at all, where do you begin?

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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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