In industrial accounting, the cost is introduced as resources sacrificed to achieve a specific goal
Industrial accounting is one of the most difficult and on the other hand, the most attractive types of accounting.
Industrial accounting is a field of management accounting that deals with budgeting and determining standard costs and actual operating costs and production costs and departments or products and analyzing deviations and determining the profitability or consumption of social funds.
To achieve these goals, accounts are classified, recorded, analyzed and interpreted to determine the relationship of each cost to the stages of production and distribution of goods and services.
Industrial accounting, as its name implies, is used in connection with industry and manufacturing institutions. That is why this type of accounting is very important for management.
In manufacturing companies or factories, due to the type of activity as well as the form of product sales, the management needs to know the cost of products is very accurate and sensitive. Because in this type of institution, the final product is produced from a combination of materials and conversion costs, which is the same as direct labor wages and overhead costs, we must pay special attention to the items that make up the cost.
For this reason, management tries to use various methods and control accounts to obtain information about the cost of products in the shortest possible time. Of course, this is one of the main tasks of accountants. Accountants do this using a variety of methods.