When manufacturing products, a business should budget the time and necessary manpower to produce the products. This allows the company to estimate the total costs associated with the production of the ...

Accountants can use standard costing to identify variances in business operating statistics. Variance analysis can help a business narrow in on areas of operations that aren't performing as they ...

Plastics processors are fortunate to have several options for managing and calculating costs. In part one of this series, we discussed the benefits of a production profit contribution model. This ...

Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...