Примеры использования A cost-accounting на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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A cost-accounting system allowed for management to focus on outcomes and results rather than on inputs.
The Committee does not consider the implementation of this recommendation to be practical without the introduction of a cost-accounting system, which at this stage does not exist.
In order to develop a cost-accounting system, a prototype approach seems advisable.
Upgrades currently foreseen in both DRITS andIMIS should be reviewed early so as to ensure that they can accommodate a cost-accounting system later on.
The proposals for the implementation of a cost-accounting system are far-reaching, potentially affecting every staff member in the organization.
In particular through regular consultation with committees and bodies at Headquarters andother duty stations to assess their needs and through the development of a cost-accounting system";
He also welcomed the statement that the groundwork for a cost-accounting system had been laid, and endorsed the view of the Committee on Conferences thereon.
Such a cost-accounting system will be a valuable information tool for managerial and budgeting purposes, but it will not lead to savings in and of itself.
The European Union concurred in the recommendation that the Secretary-General should develop a cost-accounting system to allow for the production of publications in a cost-effective manner.
In the absence of a cost-accounting system, the cost of staff in between assignments was difficult to assess, since their salaries included other expenses travel costs, etc.
Particular importance was attached to recommendations 4(strengthening the role of the Publications Board),7(identifying costs), 11(developing a cost-accounting system) and 18 promoting sales more vigorously.
The development of a cost-accounting system would raise the awareness of intergovernmental bodies about the financial implications of their utilization of the resources allocated to them.
The Secretariat indicated that the activities that had been undertaken were aimed at elucidating the conceptual framework within which the development of a cost-accounting system had to proceed and to define the next stages of that process.
A cost-accounting system was particularly suitable for conference services, for it would facilitate decisions on the total and indicative costs of the services.
Recommend performance indicators that would include measurements of quality, timeliness,accountability and cost-efficiency of conference services and develop a cost-accounting system that would provide better information on the real costs of conference servicing.
It was felt that, since a cost-accounting system was a valuable management tool, work on its development should proceed immediately on the basis of the prototype approach.
Endorses the view expressed by the Advisory Committee on Administrative andBudgetary Questions in paragraph 10 of its report5 that the report of the Secretary-General does not provide sufficient information at this stage to allow the General Assembly to endorse the full-fledged development of a cost-accounting system;
A cost-accounting and time-recording system would help record the range and depth of work covered by any given section that is not readily understood outside.
He also wondered whether ACABQ, like his delegation, agreed with the recommendation of theCommittee for Programme and Coordination that plans to develop a cost-accounting system within the United Nations Secretariat should proceed, and whether ACABQ had any thoughts about how such a system might be implemented.
Furthermore, it is anticipated that a cost-accounting and time-recording system would not be generally welcomed, and for some, the introduction of a time-recording and-reporting system would be regarded as radical.
It added that the determination of the actual costs associated with a particular meeting or document would lead to an administrative burden anduncertainty as to whether all costs had been appropriately captured since the Department did not have a cost-accounting formula.
The note by the Secretary-General on the introduction of a cost-accounting system(A/60/714) set out the interim progress made in fulfilling the request, including the completion of the technical work for the review by consultants.
The European Union strongly supported the request by the Committee on Conferences that the Secretariat should refine the methodology for calculating utilization factors and develop a cost-accounting system for conference services, and it suggested that an analysis should be made of any overcapacity in those services.
As indicated in the note of the Secretary-General on the introduction of a cost-accounting system(A/60/714, para. 6), the report on the feasibility of introducing a cost-accounting system for the United Nations will be submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session.
Endorses the view expressed by the Advisory Committee on Administrative andBudgetary Questions in paragraph 10 of its report4 that the report of the Secretary-General does not provide sufficient information at this stage to allow the General Assembly to recommend the endorsement of a full-fledged development of a cost-accounting system;
The consultants propose to pilot a cost-accounting system for the professional services of the Office of Internal Oversight Services based on a recording of the time that Professional staff work on each audit, with the final product being the report of the audit team.
As the basis for producing publications in a cost-effective manner as well as the basis for the new budgetary systemproposed in recommendation 7, the United Nations Secretariat should develop a cost-accounting system by the end of 1998 in order to have knowledge of the full cost of publications i.e., direct and, to the extent possible, indirect costs.
In essence, even if a cost-accounting system were in place, as indicated above, the tendency of programme managers, presented with indicative efficiency savings, would be to retain them to meet additional mandates and workloads rather than to surrender them to the Development Account.
The conclusion reached was that different costing methods could be used for different purposes,that what was to be expected from a cost-accounting system needed to be clarified before deciding to proceed with such a system, and that the objective and scope of a system must be defined before proceeding with its design.
Once a cost-accounting system is established, the question of an appropriate mode of printing- internal or external, mix of the two, partial outsourcing, etc.- should be reviewed/reconsidered first by the Secretariat and a proposal made to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session.