QuickBooks is designed to be a simple accounting and bookkeeping software suite. In the spirit of simplicity, it limits decisions that are within the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

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To determine the value of ending inventory and, ultimately, margins, many retailers have stuck with an accounting practice known as the retail inventory method — in some cases for more than 100 years ...

What Is the Cost Accounting Method? The cost accounting method, which assesses a company's production costs, comes in a few broad styles and cost allocation practices. However, cost accounting comes ...

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 ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...