Loading the player... Cost accounting measures several different types of costs associated with a companyâs production processes. Management uses these numbers to evaluate expenses and guide important decisions. Direct costs include the materials purchased by a company to build its products; for example, the metal a car manufacturer buys to construct its vehicles.
Mike Pont/FilmMagic. A week before his final episode aired, Patrick Dempsey, 49, sat down with Entertainment Weekly at Feed Body & Soul in Venice Beach, CA, to give an exclusive interview about his shocking exit on the April 23 episode of Greyâs Anatomy.
--How long was ``Mission Impossible`` on the air? When did Martin Landau and his wife, Barbara Bain, leave the series? How long was Peter Graves in it?--S.F. ``Mission`` made its debut on CBS in 1966. Landau and Bain were in the original cast and left in 1969. (Leonard Nimoy replaced Landau in a similar role and stayed with the show until 1971.