Does Standard costing means costing based on cost accounting standards like financial accounting standards?
Standard costing does not mean cost accounting using uniform cost accounting standards similar to financial accounting standards. The main purpose of financial accounting standards is to have such set of financial statements for every entity that is comparable with other entity’s financial statements and also to have uniform basis of accounting for different transactions that […]
What is the difference between budgeting and forecasting?
Budgeting and Forecasting are two important constituents of managerial decision making process. Even though both of these functions are distinct and are not same but their use and their dependency on each other make them inseparable and thus many confuse the two as same and use them interchangeably. Let’s understand the technical difference between these […]
