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Software Cost Accounting

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For internal use software, there are three stages defined by accounting guidance: 1) preliminary project phase (i.e. planning, evaluating alternatives, conceptual formation); 2) application development (i.e. Internal and external costs incurred during the preliminary project stage shall be expensed as they are incurred.

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Software Estimating Resources

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“The Use of Simulation Techniques for Hybrid Software Cost Estimation and Risk Analysis,” Michael Kläs, Adam Trendowicz, Axel Wickenkamp, Jürgen Münch, Nahomi Kikuchi, and Yasushi Ishigai, Advances in Computers, Volume 74, Elsevier, 2008. Evaluating Project Decisions,” INTAVER Institute. 1, February 2014. “On