What does CAS stand for?

Cost Accounting System

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Business, finance, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

No/ Don't know Yes Risk assessment procedures 7% 93% Activity-based management 50% 50% Balanced scorecard 57% 43% Financial reporting system 60% 40% Cost accounting system (eg, ABC) 67% 33% Management accounting system 72% 28% Note: Table made from bar graph.

Environmental management: Carol Adams, Roger Burritt and Geoff Frost ...

The job cost accounting system must reconcile to the general ledger.

Does your accounting system measure up?

However, until the agency has developed a full cost accounting system and a strategic training plan, it will miss other opportunities to strengthen the management of the agency.

National Transportation Safety Board: Progress Made in Management ...

Her expertise in the areas of civilian payroll management, database development, Job Order Cost Accounting System oversight, and reimbursable program management has proven invaluable to the success of directorate operations.

Contractor Support

Ramsey (1994) notes that a cost accounting system should accomplish three goals: it should promote cost efficiency, it should allow the organization to maximize its resources by managing the services it offers its patients, and it should highlight opportunities for continuous improvement of operations.

The use of activity based costing in the healthcare industry: 1994 ...

Most standard cost accounting systems do not make sense in any company.

Revisiting Lean Accounting

Meanwhile, an ongoing Air Force Information Reliability and Integration (AFIR&I) initiative is aiming to develop a cost accounting system suitable for the Air Force, which may eventually be subsumed under BMMP and used across DoD.

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cost and Economics--Mr Richard K. Hartley

ABC can be used as a stand-alone system, or integrated into a company's current existing cost accounting system.

Critical issues to address before you embark on an ABC journey