Cost Forecasting

Cost Forecasting

This background is vital to the management accountant when he is attempting to forecast future cost behavior for use in planning and decision making.

There are there broad approaches to the problem of cost forecasting:
(i) That based on extrapolation of historical costs and data, frequently using statistical analysis of varying degree of sophistication
(ii) The accounts classification method; and
(iii) The industrial engineering approach.

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