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The generally accepted accounting matching principle requires manufacturing and service businesses to include direct and overhead expenses in product and service costs and, when appropriate, in ...

This concept, called “true cost accounting,” has been slowly gaining traction over the last decade and it’s the subject of a new book, True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale, published in ...

But retailers in the U.S. are increasingly rethinking RIM because the cost method’s specificity provides a clearer picture of inventory and margins, with implications for a host of retail ...