What Are the Functions of a Cost Center in a Management Accounting System?. Corporations, as well as nonprofit organizations, use cost centers to keep track of expenses.

A cost center refers to any part of a business that's responsible for managing costs but not for generating sales or revenue.

We consider the design of regulatory policy when the regulator is imperfectly informed about both the firm's cost function and the demand function it faces. To some extent the optimal policy here is ...

We develop a simple method for identifying and estimating cost functions in the presence of endogenous and unobserved quality. Using this method, we estimate that a quality-adjusted cost function for ...