BASED COSTING (ABC). What Factors led to its emergence. Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Activity Based Costing (ABC)……………………………………………………..…. 5 * What is ABC * Development Of ABC Terms Involved in ABC & Stages of ABC………………………………………… 6 Evolution Of ABC………………………………………………………………………… 7 Phases of development of ABC……………………………………………………… 8 What led to the emergence of ABC……………………………………………….. 10 * Traditional Costing
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Chapter 4-1 Activity-Based Costing Managerial Accounting Fifth Edition Weygandt Kimmel Kieso Chapter 4-2 study objectives Chapter 4-3 1. Recognize the difference between traditional costing and activity-based costing. 2. Identify the steps in the development of an activity-based costing system. 3. Know how companies identify the activity cost pools used in activity-based costing. 4. Know how companies identify and use cost drivers in activitybased costing. 5. Understand the benefits
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Activity Based Costing The major strength of activity based costing is the ability to estimate the cost of individual products and services precisely. By transferring overhead costs to individual units of products or services‚ ABC helps identify inefficient or non-profitable products or activities that help into the profitability of efficient processes or highly profitable products. 1. More accurate costing of products/services Product cost determination under activity-based costing is more accurate
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Backflush Costing Backflush costing is a traditional and standard costing systems track costs as products pass from raw materials‚ to work in progress‚ to finished goods‚ and finally to sales. Such systems are called ’sequential tracking systems’ because the accounting system entries occur in the same order as purchases and production. Sequential tracking is common where management desires to track direct material and labor time to individual operations and products. Backflush costing is a method
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Activity-Based Costing Instructor Bradley Johnson December 17‚ 2012 Activity-Based Costing In business‚ there are two separate costing methods that a firm can use. One of those methods is called traditional costing system and the other is activity-based costing. Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing method that focuses on identifying activities which allocates the costs of each activity a firm uses. From our text‚ it identifies Activity-based Costing as “a two-stage product costing method that
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Chapter 4 Activity-Based Costing 4-1 4-2 Traditional Costing and Activity-Based Costing Traditional Costing Systems Allocates overhead using a single predetermined rate. ► Job order costing: direct labor cost may be the relevant activity base. ► Process costing: machine hours may be the relevant activity base. Assumption was satisfactory when direct labor was a major portion of total manufacturing costs. ► Wide acceptance of a high correlation between
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ADVANTAGES OF KAIZEN COSTING There are certain basic principles which are followed in various Japanese companies which are listed below: - 1) Focus on customers: The Kaizen philosophy has only one prime objective of customers’ satisfaction. Kaizen permits no middle ground its either you provide best products and customer satisfaction or not. All the activities should aim at providing customer with whatever he wants and should help the firm long term objective of customers’ satisfaction at
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The Pass/Fail System In an article discussing whether or not a pass/fail grading system can reflect a student’s progress‚ Bonnie M. Miller‚ MD advocates for criteria based learning. She accurately points out that “A pass/fail grade indicates simply that a student has achieved an expected level of competence” and that this information is critical to understand if this student has fulfilled his or her obligations. She says that “students should be evaluated on their initiative‚ engagement with and
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Introduction Activity Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. By using ABC to assign the overhead costs to each activity‚ the following steps should be followed: 1. Identify and define activities using interviews and surveys. Then build a list of activities. • Activity name-usually consists of an action verb and an object.
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Activity based costing (ABC) is a relative new way to allocate costs to specific processes and services. This system assures that the costs are accurately distributed to the products or services that generated them. ABC illustrates costs more accurately‚ giving management insight to the cost associated with certain business activities. ABC extends the decision-making skills of management by expanding on traditional costing (job order costing/process order costing) techniques. However‚ since ABC ’s
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