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Is there a difference between Life Cycle Costing and Target Costing?

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Question added by Frank Mwansa , ACCOUNTING LECTURER , FREELANCER
Date Posted: 2016/01/28
Ahmed Abdul Ghaffar
by Ahmed Abdul Ghaffar , Manager Accounts , Alkaram Textile Mills Pvt Ltd

Life-cycle costing is the profiling of costs over the life of a product, including the pre-production stage. Target costing is an activity which is aimed at reducing the life-cycle costs of new products, by examining all possibilities for cost reduction at the research, development and production stage. It is not a costing system, but a profit-planning system – the selling price and profit requirement are set during the research stage, thus creating a target cost.

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