Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, 5th Edition

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 1118128168
ISBN 13: 978-1-11812-816-9

Chapter 23 - Standard Costs and Balanced Scorecard - Questions - Page 1224: 3

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Advantages of standard cost are as follows:- 1. Facilitate management planning 2. Promote greater economy by making employees more “cost-conscious ” 3. Useful in setting selling prices 4. Contribute to management control by providing basis for evaluation of cost control 5. Useful in highlighting variances in management by exception 6. Simplify costing of inventories and reduce clerical costs
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