activity-based costing
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
The greatest advantage associated with activity-based costing (relative to a traditional allocation with a single allocation base) is that:
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It allocates all allocation bases based on multiple pools of activities.
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It uses multiple cost pools. Each cost pool has its own activity measure.
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It uses multiple cost pools but only a single activity measure to improve the precision of estimates.
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It uses a single cost pool but multiple allocation bases to improve the precision of estimates.
Activity based costing refers to the method of costing assigning cost of activity to all the products and services.
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