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Cost Accounting Foundations and Evolutions
Michael R. Kinney, Texas A&M University Cecily A. Raiborn, Texas State University—San Marcos
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Brief Contents
Contents
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Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1
Introduction to Cos