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The role of fixed and variable cost accounting in the context of managing an enterprise

Author(s): Damian Łazarczyk
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: fixed costs; variable costs; cost accounting; management

Summary/Abstract: Purporse: This article’s research aim is to explain the influence of fixed and variable cost accounting on managing an enterprise, including the decision making process. Methodology: Reviewing and evaluating literature on both managerial and cost accounting. Result: Fixed and variable cost accounting have a significant impact on short-term enterprise management. The information about fixed and variable cost is primarily used for: regulating the prices, closing the decisional cost and result accounts, providing “cost-sales volume-profit” analyses, as well as budgeting the operational and control costs.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 33-42
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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