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Report on TDABC model in Private Organization

   

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Business Management2Executive summary:Activity based costing (ABC) technique is popular in business writing and management circles.However, calculating baselines related to activities, developing model in this context, and test themodel on continuous basis are the reasons because of which it is considered as time consumingand costly technique. Various improvements are developed by the Kaplan and Anderson in thisoriginal model of ABC and named it as time-driven ABC. This new and improved model ofABC reduce the requirement of data, and it consider two significant factors of organization thatare capacity and cost in lieu of resources, and time required for the purpose of performing anyactivity. This report mainly states the suitability of the TDABC model in private organizations operated inAustralia, and how this model is different from other costing techniques.
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Business Management3ContentsExecutive summary:....................................................................................................................................2Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................3About Wesfarmers:.....................................................................................................................................4TDABC & its different aspects:.....................................................................................................................5Difference:...................................................................................................................................................6TDABC & ABC:..........................................................................................................................................6Traditional costing system & TDABC:.......................................................................................................7TDABC and Wesfarmers:.............................................................................................................................9Conclusion:................................................................................................................................................10References:................................................................................................................................................10Introduction:Activity based costing method was originally introduced in the year of 1980, and it addressvarious issues related to traditional standard-cost systems. Traditional methods of costing only
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Business Management4use three categories of cost that were labor, materials, and overhead. It must be noted thatmanufacturing companies generally smidgen the factors related to labor and materials whichwere used by the products on individual basis. Cost systems of these companies allocate theindirect and support cost with those measures which had been already decided such as directhours of labor and direct labor dollars. Later, various issues are faced by the organizationbecause of which new approach related to ABC model was introduced by the experts. This newapproach was developed by Kaplan and Anderson and it was named as Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) (Kaplan & Anderson, 2004). TDABC is a simple and elegant option available for companies for the purpose of determiningthe cost and capacity utilization of their process and it also help the companies in determining theprofitability of orders, products, and customers. It provides better cost management whichautomatically improves the cost management systems and address all issues related to thissystem. Managers obtain accurate information in context of cost and profitability which help themanagers in managing the project. TDABC also justify the product variety and mix, pricecustomer orders, and it also manage the relationship between customer and company whichprovide benefits to both the parties (Akhavan, ward & Bozic, 2016). This paper states meaning and different elements related to TDABC and also discuss thereliability of private organization in Australia on this model of costing. For the purpose ofunderstanding this new approach in better way, we chose Wesfarmers Limited as case study.
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