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What are the two stages of allocation in activity-based costing?

Identifying the activities and identification of cost drivers


What are the two stages of allocation in activity based costing?

Identifying the activities and identification of cost drivers


Activity-based costing is a means of more accurately accounting for direct labor cost?

False. Activity-based costing is used to allocate indirect cost into direct costs.Regardng direct cost, traditional costing is as appropriate as activity-based costing.


Cost allocation bases in activity-based costing should be a. cost drivers b. value-added activities c. activity centers d. processes?

C


How would you describe activity based costing?

Activity-based costing is a form of cost refinement, designed to obtain greater accuracy than traditional allocations in cost assignments for product costing and decision-making purposes.


What are the tools and techniques of cost management?

Activity based Costing, Target costing, Just in Time,Total Quality Management,


What are the differences between activity-based absorption costing system and traditional absorption costing system?

An activity-based absorption costing system defines the cost by how many activities a product unit uses. A traditional absorption costing system defines the cost by how much money went into making the product unit.


How is activity based costing better than traditional cost assignment systems?

Activity-based costing tries to take the nonuniformity of resource consumption across products into account in the assignment of costs.


How do activity-based costing and the traditional cost system treat idle capacity costs differently?

Traditional costing system allocates the idle capacity cost to completed units while activity based costing only allocates the cost of capacity which is utilized while remaining capacity is expensed to income statement as period cost.


Why activity based costing?

Activity based costing allocate the overhead expenses based on activities performed and that's why it is an accurate way to allocate overhead expenses while in absorption costing, overheads are allocated based on some ratios or predetermined rate which is not accurate method of allocation of cost.


What is the first step in activity-based costing?

Costs are assigned to activities from resource cost pools.


What is the first step in activity based costing?

Costs are assigned to activities from resource cost pools.