Cost Accounting and Management Practices: Retail and Wholesale Industry Spotlight

Published On:

August 24, 2020

Authored By:

APQC

Members-Only Content:

APQC conducts ongoing Open Standards Benchmarking® survey research to help organizations benchmark and improve their processes. The research gathers metric data (cost, productivity, efficiency, cycle time, and supplemental measures) as well as information on practices and key drivers. The focus of this report is on cost accounting and management practices data from survey participants in the retail and wholesale industry from the latest administration of APQC’s Planning and Management Accounting assessment.

Type:

Data and Measures

Topics:

Finance and Accounting, Accounting, Cost Accounting, Planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Industries:

Retail/Catalog/Mail Order, Wholesale Distribution

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