Design Of Costing System In Service Operations

Abstract

The need to reach the right cost information in service businesses, which consist of numerous and different sub-sectors within themselves, has always been important. However, nowadays, most of these types of services have to face global competition and this need has increased more. Despite the growing contribution of the service sector to the gross domestic product of many developed countries in the world, the academic studies on service cost is rather limited. The purpose of this study is to discuss the costing methods that should be applied as a result of an appropriate classification, with the difficulties encountered in the costing of service enterprises. The aim of this study is to synthesize the information in existing limited literature and to lead academic and practical researchers who are interested in costing in service enterprises.