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In traditional costing system overheads are spread over volume of production by using spread rate which is called blanket rate or absorption rate while in ABC costing costs are allocated on the bases of actual activity performed in specific cost centers so this is a accurate method for allocating costs according to activity performed and not with just any estimated rates
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Name companies that use the ABC costing?
the comanies that use the ABC system.
What type of costing system used in nestle ltd?
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What is the fullform of ABC?
ABC stands for Activity Based Costing, which is an accounting system that assigns costs of specific activities to the products that use them rather than applying all overhead to every product equally.
Do ABC analysis in inventory management is same as that of Activity Based Costing?
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What is abc-analysis stands for?
Activity Based Costing as per Inventory Management.
Determining the cost of one item?
Well to determine the cost of one item you have to first decide which costing method your are using. Marginal or Absorption costing. Nowadays companies are using ABC (Activity Based Costing). ABC is best for determining most accurate cost as compared to other methods.
What is activity based costing?
Activity Based Costing(ABC) Is a more recent approach to product costing ,pioneered by Professor Kaplan and Cooper . ABC is an attempt to reflect more accuratly in product costs those activities wich influence the level of support overheads includes such items as Inspection, Dispatch, Production Planing , Set up, tooling and similar costs. ABC system uses many drivers as absorption bases. Because of this , it claims that the use of ABC and several cost driver rates produces more realistic product or service cost specialy when the support costs are high.
How activity-based costing could overcome the deficiencies inherent in the existing costing system?
Greetings. Your questions does not tell about the existing costing system but I assume that you are using the 'traditional' way of costing as standard costing. The major deficiency is that when we talk about costing, we are always assuming that is 'Product Costing'. By doing this we take all the costs to the product. This is not necessarily true. There are various reasons that cause costs in your organization. These could be Products, Customers, Channels, Capacity built, to sustain business (typically called as 'cost object' in ABC) etc. Another major difference is that ABC first calculates the cost of various activities and then it takes to the cost objects. This helps in understanding the root causes for the costs and can help in improving the costs. It gives insight into the performance of the processes in the organization as to how much of the process is really 'value adding' to the organization. The 'non value adding' part of the processes can be eliminated or reduced. Typically the functional managers are informed about the actual expenses v/s budgeted expenses. With this information the managers can be either happy or sad. They cannot be smarter. ABC can tell the functional managers how they have utilised their resources. I hope I have provided some information to you. You can visit my blog on the subject at www.activitybasedmgmt.blogpsot.com or write to me at rajendra@appsconsulting.in. Rajendra Patil
What is the difference between Activity-based costing and traditional cost accounting?
Activity-based costing is a more accurate cost management system than TCA. One would use the ABC method when overhead is high, products are diverse, cost of errors high and competition is stiff. Traditional Cost Accounting is unable to calculate the 'true' cost of the product. TCA arbitrarily allocates overhead to the costs of objects. Total company's overhead is allocated to the products based on volume based measure e.g. labor hours, machine hours.
Is the ABC family channel free?
On some televions yes it is On other you will have to pay a bill costing about 100 dollars
What does a well designed activity based costing system start with?
An Activity Based costing always starts with defining your objective. why do you want to implement this system? This definition is very important. Then the scope of the project and then the phases. The typical onjectives of the ABC system would fall under one the following three; 1) Understand Product, customer profitability 2) Understand the process costs and the cost drivers for them 3) Planning resource
What are the benefits of activity-based costing?
There are several limitations to ABC.Firstly it is expense to implement and maintain, both in time and money.It still faces issue allocating some overheads to activities, for example supervisor salaries.Management and employees can be resistant to the data it provides as it can make their performance look poor. They may even provide poor quality source data if they feel threatened.
