current-cost accounting

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a method of accounting that values assets at their current replacement cost rather than their original costCompare historical-cost accounting

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Words nearby current-cost accounting

current, current account, current assets, current balance, current cost, current-cost accounting, current density, current efficiency, current, electric, current expenses, current liabilities

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Example sentences from the Web for current-cost accounting

Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
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“The sensation these objects presented receded as their cost increased,” notes Rabinowitz.
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Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.
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Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.
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Malaysian-based entrepreneur Tony Fernandes has turned AirAsia into the most successful low cost airline in southeast Asia.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
They feel that the system has few advantages to offer in return for the cost it entails upon them.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
He became a doctor in two hours, and it only cost him twenty dollars to complete his education.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
The estimated cost of the alterations is put at £16,000 including fittings.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

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