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Activity Based Costing: Definition, Advantages, and Implementation

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This presentation provides an overview of Activity Based Costing (ABC) and its advantages over traditional costing systems. It explains the concept of ABC, how it differs from traditional costing, and its implementation process. The presentation also covers the advantages and disadvantages of ABC, motivations for its introduction, and areas of improvement. References from various sources are included.

Activity Based Costing: Definition, Advantages, and Implementation

   Added on 2023-06-14

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During the mid 1980, it was felt that
absorption costing has certain limitations
The absorption costing is introduced when
companies manufactured only few products
and it is easy to allocate the indirect costs
The limitation of absorption has to the
introduction of the Activity based costing
(ABC) model
Origin of ABC
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As per definition provided by the CIMA for
ABC Costing:
As per CIMA, activity based costing means an
approach used in management accounting
It is introduced to monitor various activities within
the organization
It allocate the resources to each activity on the
basis of the resource actually used by the
particular activity
Though using the activity based costing actual
cost of each product can be easily calculated
ABC Costing (Definition and Concept)
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Mainly three main differences between the
ABC costing and traditional costing
Through use of ABC costing both
manufacturing and non manufacturing cost
can be assigns to the product
All types of manufacturing cost that is assigned in
traditional costing is not assigned in ABC Costing
ABC uses more than one cost pool to allocate the
cost while traditional use only one cost pool to
allocate the cost
How ABC differ from the traditional Costing
system
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