cost accountant
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4.9
- noun
- /kɔst əˈkaʊntənt/
- Specialized
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contador de costos
- My father, the cost accountant who went to UCLA, raised me this way, so I don't think there's anything bad about the way I live my life, and I wonder to this day why, when black people see me, they frown and growl when they're saying, "You think you're white."
Examples
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She works as a cost accountant for a manufacturing firm, ensuring that all expenses are accurately recorded and analyzed.
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Now, a junior cost accountant stuck her nose where it didn't belong, and obviously had no idea what she was looking at.
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Finance: Since specializing in the plastics industry, I have filled cost accountant positions as well as controller positions.
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After five years of experience, he was promoted from junior employee to a senior cost accountant in the finance department.
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The cost accountant prepared detailed reports on production costs to help management make informed decisions.
Synonyms
212
2.7
A person who keeps and checks money records for people or companies
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'cost' (expenses) with 'accountant' (financial professional): a B1 learner who knows both words will understand this refers to an accountant who handles costs. This noun-noun compound is compositional and cross-linguistically common, so its sense is immediately predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Cost accountant combines two plain words: cost, the money spent to make a product, and accountant, a person who keeps records of money. Imagine someone writing every expense in a book to find where to save money; that's why the term means 'a person who records and manages production costs'.