A Cost Accounting Clerk compiles accounting cost reports showing total cost, selling prices, rates profits, or other cost information needed for proper cost accounting; Calculates individual items, such as labor, material, and time costs, relationship of sales or revenues to cost, and overhead expenditures; Examines records, such as time and production sheets, payrolls, operations charts, and schedules, to obtain data for calculations; Prepares reports showing total cost, selling prices, or rates profits.