The paper analyzes the significance of Activity Based Costing (ABC) and how it contributes to the financial performance of the organization. ABC is an accounting process that recognizes and allocates expenditures to overhead activities and then apportions those overheads to products. It helps in bringing accuracy and consistency in product price determination by concentrating on cause and effect connection in the cost incurrence. It helps in identifying that it is the events which cause expenditures, not commodities and it is the product which consumes actions.