Cost accounting refers to the accounting procedures designed to assess the costs of production a business incurs. Managers typically use cost accounting as a budgeting tool for establishing cost ...

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If you don't have a brick-and-mortar retail location, you'll need other ways to distribute your products and get them into your customers' hands. In general, the easiest distribution methods tend to ...