A sales management evaluation and control method for monitoring sales force performance. A cost analysis involves monitoring the costs of various selling functions across individual salespeople, districts, products, and customer types. When put together with the data from a sales analysis, this procedure allows a firm to judge the profitability of [..]

The analysis of the cost elements of a proposal or on-going work. It includes verification of cost data, evaluation of all elements of costs, and projection of these data to determine the effect on pr [..]

Definition The process of developing and analyzing cost data from separate business elements and estimating incremental and total resources needed to support current and future business strategies. A [..]

a step-by-step judgment of the prices correlated with the use of a program's services including: material, time period, direct personnel, administrative costs on the purchaser's behalf, and [..]

Cost/price analysis is the breaking down of the costs of some operation and reporting on each factor separately. In antitrust matters it refers to the technique of determining whether predatory pricin [..]

A type of economic analysis which provides a complete accounting of the costs related to a given policy or program. Cost analysis provides the most rudimentary cost information required by both decision-makers and practitioners, and also serves as the foundation of all other economic analyses. (To read more, see the Types of Economic Analysis