WordNet
n. a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
Usage examples of "cost accountant".
They know how to read a cost accountant's report, that's what they know.
Don Spain was a cost accountant who had the office on the opposite side of Muriel's and shared her services.
With a string or two, of course, like a cost accountant to keep tabs on things and a first option to finance future expansion.
He claims he has been a fencing coach, a Mongol warlord, a Klingon, a cost accountant and a deep space mercenary.
His appeal was to the slowly atrophying cost accountant stuck in traffic twice a day, two-hundred-fifty days every year, with the IRS waiting to mop up whatever of his year's income survived Christmas.
The man who'd spotted me drew gradually closer, pretending to read labels along the way, finally sidling in next to me at the counter, the living effigy of a cost accountant or tax lawyer, radiating his special grotesquerie, that of sane men leading normal lives.